- Writing Numbers to 9,999 and Number Words
- I made a decahedron with clay and baked it. Then I wrote the numbers 0 - 9, one numeral on each side. I wrote out the words one - nine (3 each); ten - twenty; and thirty, forty, fifty . . . ninety; hundred; and thousand
- Game
- We took turns rolling the decahedron four times to make a four-digit number.
- Then the player wrote the number on a paper (8,537)
- and made the number with the word cards.
- Ordinals first through twentieth
- We played Find a Penny (pg 52 Games for Math)
- I printed out 20 rabbits doing different things and wrote the words first - twentieth. K. told a story about a family of twenty rabbits and put them in order with their corresponding word.
- Place Value and Renaming
- We made four-digit numbers with UNO cards and then showed them on the place value mat. Then we made a three-digit number and subtracted it.
- Counting
- We counted to 1,000 by counting 100 numbers each day. At first it seemed like K. was just mumbling and echoing me, so we brought out the UNO cards. The first person turned the top card over (it is a 5). They count from (let's start with 200) 200 to 205. The other person turns the top UNO card over (it is a 9). They count from 206 to 209. The first person turns over the next card (it is a 7). They count from 210 to 217. Keep going until you get to 300.
- This turned out to be a very good way to count as there is no set pattern for how many numbers each person counts, but sometimes you may count only one number and other times you may count more, but never more than ten numbers.
- We used beads to count to 30 by 3's and to 40 by 4's
- Rounding
- I put a button on a number (7) on our number line and asked it if was closer to zero or ten.
- Subtraction
- We read Subtraction Made Easy by Rebecca Wingard-Nelson up to two-digit regrouping.
- We practiced 3- and 4-digit subtraction without renaming
- We did a few problems that we had to rename the tens. We did this on our place value mat.
- Multiplication Readiness
- I wrote out some word problems. K. drew a picture to illustrate the problem. Then we solved it with repeated addition, showed it on the number line, and wrote it in vertical and horizontal multiplication forms.
- We read Multiplication Made Easy by Rebecca Wingard-Nelson; pages 4 - 19
- Fractions
- I read the book, The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins. We had stuffed animals for the people and beads for the cookies and worked out the Fair Shares. Then figured out what fraction of the cookies each person got.
- We compared fractions with common denominators and fractions with 1 as the numerator.
- Geometry
- We played Shape Lotto (Games for Math). I added the hexagon and pyramid shapes.
- We counted sides and vertexes / faces, edges, vertexes, and curves
- We played pattern games on-line. Moon Rock Patterns and Crazy Pattern Machine
- Charts and Graphs
- We read the book Tally Charts by Vijaya Chisty Bodach. Instead of just looking at the charts made in the book, we worked out the charts by looking at the pictures. Later that day we were running errands and made a tally chart of red, blue, and yellow cars.
- Estimation
- Games and Activities
- We played Is It? from Games for Math pg 90
- We made the Gallon Hero. I found this idea on a blog and made our own. We started out by coloring all the pieces before they were cut out. Then I had K. cut out the gallon piece and the head and glue them together. I had a gallon of water and experimented to see how many times it would fill our quart measuring cup. Then K. cut out the quarts and glued them on to the gallon. Next, we took 1 quart and experimented to see how many times it would fill the pint container. Then she cut out the pint pieces and glued them on to the quarts (2 on each quart). Last, we took one pint and experimented to see how many times it would fill our one cup measuring cup. I had cut out all but four of the cup pieces. K. cut them out and glued them on to the pint pieces (2 on each pint). Then I let her glue some hair on his head. This method seems to have worked really well because a couple times since then she had used the knowledge.
- I pulled out 10 containers and K. put them in order from the one that would hold the least to the one that would hold the most. I had her first pick out the one she thought would hold the least. We filled it with water. Then I had her pick out the one that she thought would hold the next most. We poured the water from the first container into the second. If it overflowed, we knew the second container was smaller than the first, but it we had to add more water, then we knew the second container was bigger. We did this with each container.
- We took a walk around the neighborhood. I pointed out items and asked K. if we would use inches, feet, or yards to measure it.
- We both went and found an object. Then we weighed them to see which was heavier. The goal was for her to come back with something that would be heavier than whatever I picked.
- K. picked an object and we weighed it. Then she flicked the spinner (options are 'More' or 'Less'). If it landed on 'More', I had to bring back an object that weighed more. If it landed on 'Less', I had to bring back an object that weighed less. Then I flicked the spinner, etc.
- Map Skills
- I found three different activity pages on-line that were fun to complete; they gave practice with north, east, south, west and finding locations.
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