- I introduced Thousands Place.
- To practice recognizing and reading numbers, we took turns taking four UNO cards and making them into a number. K. had left her collection of rocks on the table and there was one that looked like a comma, so we used it.
- Another day I took out the Place Value Mat.
- I put on 10 ones and asked K. what she could do with that -- make 1 ten.
- Then I put out 10 tens and she made them into 1 hundred.
- Then I put out 10 hundreds and told her that made 1 thousand. I hadn't made thousands for our mat, so we went to the computer and did that. Then she made the 10 hundreds into 1 thousand
- We played the Ten More/Less & 100 More/Less
- Game
- I numbered to 7 on the paper and labeled two columns "K" and "M".
- I started by taking four UNO cards and making a number. Then I flicked the spinner.
- K. had to write the number it specified.
- Example: Above the number is 9,558 and the spinner is on 10 Less, so she needed to write 9,548.
- We each had seven turns.
- To review Even and Odd Numbers
- We played the Kitten Game from Adding and Subtracting by Ann Montague-Smith.
- There are four baskets that 20 kittens have escaped from. We used pennies for our kittens.
- The kittens need to be put back in the baskets, but each basket has to have a even number of kittens.
- Once they have done this, ask if they can find another way to do it.
- Then do the same thing, but have only odd numbers of kittens in each basket.
- To review Comparing Numbers
- Game
- We each took three UNO cards and made a number.
- Between the numbers was a stack of scrap pieces of paper.
- We took turns writing the "<" or ">" sign on the papers.
- We played until we had used all the UNO cards.
- To review Addition we read the book Addition Made Easy by Rebecca Wingard-Nelson.
- We started using the fact family Triangles again this week. I still have them divided into five groups. We do one group each day. If K. completes the group correctly in less than two minutes she gets to put a sticker up on the calendar.
- Game
- One person writes down a number sentence (like 6+3=9). The other person writes down three other number sentences that use the same numbers. (3+6=9; 9-3=6; 9-6=3) Now switch.
- Game
- Take turns to think of a number. Give clues to the other person so they can guess your number.
- Game
- Take a pile of coins (you can limit it to 12 coins if you want). How many ways can you make 12¢; 17¢; 25¢?
- To review Charts and Graphs we read the book Mashed Potatoes by Nancy Harris.
- We made charts for Neighborhood Distances, and Weight/Mass (see below).
- I introduced Metric Measurements this week
- For centimeters and meters we measured the circumference of a wheel on K.'s bike (we measured it in both cm and inches). Then we counted (actually she walked the bike and I counted) how many times the wheel went around as we went the length of the house, width of the driveway, length of the block, distance to the park, etc. Then we calculated how far each was in centimeters, meters, inches, and yards. This activity was called Neighborhood Distances, on page 40 in Measurement Mania by Lynette Long.
- For grams and kilograms we picked six items and measured their mass and then their weight.
- For Celsius I did a variation of What's the Temperature (page 98 in Measurement Mania). I took the cards suggested and the house thermometer (which has both C and F) and we talked about whether the temperature talked about would be C or F. Then we made some more cards. Another time we will be able to play the game as suggested.
- Fractions
- We reviewed equal parts and fractions halves through tenths
- Geometry
- We review the shaped we knew and I introduced hexagon and polygram
- Charts
- Tally charts - pages 10 and 11 of Beginning Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams
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