Activities! On Ordinals, Area, Place Value, How to Make a New Friend and…the FREE Early Math Symposium!
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Hello!
That’s Emma with me today. She recently moved to See-and-Learn City. That’s her puppy, Pickle, sitting on top of the “A” in “Activities.” Emma really wanted to make some new friends, so I wrote an I See I Learn story for her called Emma’s Friendwich. Scroll down for free posters in English and Spanish!
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This week’s three featured MathStart stories are:
Henry the Fourth (ordinals)
Bigger, Better, Best! (area)
Earth Day, Hooray! (place value)
Let’s have fun!
Stuart
Registration is now open for the Early Math Project’s FREE online Early Math Symposium on June 23. I will be presenting with my good friend Jonathon Dueck, talking about bar graphs, pictographs, pie charts and line graphs. We will be using examples from my latest book, Show and Tell! Great Graphs and Smart Charts.
Register today and please spread the word!
MATHSTART
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 find MathStart books!
• Level 1, Pre-K/ Kindergarten
Henry the Fourth (ordinals)
It's "Dog Show Day" and the kids in the neighborhood have all gathered together to see four perfect pooches compete. Maxie's first, Baxter's second, Daisy's third, but will the stage-shy Henry the Fourth end up stealing the show?
Identifying order is essential for developing sequencing skills.
• Level 2, Kindergarten / Grade 1:
Bigger, Better, Best! (area)
Jill can't believe it. Her older sister Jenny and older brother Jeff are at it again, arguing over who's got the better backpack and better book. But their biggest battle is over who has the best bedroom in their new house. To measure the area of their windows, they use sheets of paper. Yet even though their windows are different shapes, they both need the same number of sheets—12—to cover the glass. Their windows have the exact same area! Sheets of newsprint come in handy for measuring floor space. Meanwhile, Jill's just happy that her little room is way down the hall.
Understanding that area is a two-dimensional measurement of space is a basic concept of geometry.
• Level 3, Grades 2 - 4:
Earth Day, Hooray! (place value)
Every day is Earth Day! Have you done a clean up project class? It’s a good thing to do and it’s fun, too, when everyone works together!
Members of Maple Street Save-the-Planet Club are cleaning up Gilroy Park when Ryan has a brainstorm: Instead of throwing aluminum cans in the garbage, why not bring them to the Recycling Center and use the money to buy flowers to decorate the park for Earth Day? Mrs. Watson, the club's advisor, figures out that they're going to need 5,000 cans, so the kids start a big collection campaign at school. Cans are grouped in bags of 10, 100 and 1,000. Recycling facts are sprinkled throughout the illustrations.
Understanding place value is key to working easily with large numbers.
I SEE I LEARN
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 find I See I Learn books!
MEET THE KIDS!
Emma’s is so excited about going to Ready, Set, Pre-K! Who will she and Pickle make friends with first? To find out more about the gang, click on the picture below. As Pickle, the green bulldog likes to say, “Woof!”
• Emma’s Friendwich (making friends)
Emma is new in town. More than anything, she wants to make new friends. See what happens when she smiles, asks to play, offers to help, and shares her toys. Making friends is fun!
The ability to make new friends is important as young children meet one another and work and play together.
Encourage your child to make a new friend!
* edición en español
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