Activities! On Missing Mittens, 100 Days of Cool, Pen Pals and Metrics…and The Scrubba Dub Song!
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Hello!
That’s Carlos with me this week. Carlos is a wonderful friend, but boy oh boy, does he ever get messy when he draws with chalk, builds with clay, and plays in the mud. It’s a good thing he learned the “Scrubba Dub” song! It’s one of my favorites!
Just above my head, so you see the goat nibbling on a mitten! Have you ever had a goat nibble on your mitten? Such a sweet goat. But what a problem!
This week our three featured MathStart books are:
Missing Mittens (odd & even numbers)
100 Days of Cool (numbers 1 — 100) Bonus! Sing along with the 101 Days of School song from The Main Street Kids’ Club: A MathStart Musical
Polly’s Pen Pal (metrics)
And our featured I See I Learn book is:
Scrubba Dub, Carlos (washing your hands)
Now, let’s get to all those activities!
Your friend,
Stuart
Mathstart is a series of 63 storybooks organized into three levels for Pre-K through Grade 4. Each story teaches a different mathematical skill.
Here is list of where to buy MathStart books!
• Level 1, Pre-K/ Kindergarten
Missing Mittens (odd and even numbers)
B'rrrr. It's a cold snowy day and Farmer Bill is missing one of his mittens. The cow, three chickens and two horses are in the same pickle. Instead of having an even 2, 4, 6 or 8 mittens for their hands, hooves and feet, they've got 1, 3, 5 and 7. How odd! Can you guess who the barnyard mitten thief is?
Identifying the difference between odd and even numbers is essential to understanding our number system.
• Level 2, Kindergarten / Grade 1:
100 Days of Cool (numbers 1—100)
When Mrs. Lopez tells her class that they're going to celebrate "100 Days of School," Maggie hears "100 of Days of Cool" instead. Mrs. Lopez thinks that's a great idea, too. So for the next 100 days, Maggie, along with her buddies Nathan, Yoshi, and Scott, come up with 100 different ways to be cool. They wear funny glasses, fancy socks, decorate their bikes, even dress up in cloths from the wacky 1970s.
A number line is used to keep track of their progress.
100 Days of Cool is featured in The Main Street Kids’ Club: A MathStart Musical!
It’s a toe-tapper! You can sing along!
• Level 3, Grades 2 - 4:
Polly’s Pen Pal (metrics)
Polly's new pen-pal, Ally, lives in Montreal, Canada, where they use the metric system. Polly and Ally have lots in common: They both have cats, like the color purple, and are just about the same size and weight. But when Ally writes that she is 125 centimeters tall, Polly needs to ask her Dad for help to figure out how tall that really is. Dad uses a baseball bat about 1 meter—100 centimeters—long as a reference, and shows Polly that one centimeter is about the width of his little finger. Dad helps Polly figure out grams and kilograms, and meters and kilometers, also by using every day references she can relate to.
The use of rough equivalents in terms of familiar objects and distances helps kids become familiar and comfortable with the metric system.
I See I Learn is a series of 16 stories that follow the adventures of the children in Miss Cathy’s class at Ready, Set Pre-K in See-and-Learn City. Each story focuses on a different social, emotional, health & safety and cognitive skill important for success in school and in life. For Pre-K / Kindergarten.
Here is list of where to buy I See I Learn books!
20% Discount for Sets of 16 books at the I See I Learn Store!
Scrubba Dub, Carlos (washing your hands)
Carlos gets mess when he draws with chalk, builds with clay, and plays in the mud. He doesn’t like to wash his hands. See how Carlos’ friends show him that washing up can be easy and fun!
It is especially important for children to wash their hands after coughing, sneezing and using the bathroom; and before and after eating, too.
Scrubba dub! Get those hands squeaky clean!
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