Small Group Math

Today during our small group math time our focus was on the introduction of the REKENREK.  
We are currently learning about decomposing and composing numbers and this tool was a hit to help support our learning.  
Check out this site to learn more!
http://therekenrek.com/about_the_rekenrek.html

There are two great APPs called Number Rack and Mental Math that we are using as well. If you are interested in downloading the apps for practice at home.

Mrs. Widman worked with the children on data collection today and writing numbers 0-30.  Please call out numbers at home for your child to write  to see how they are progressing with this skill.

Tomorrow we are having our one more than and one less than assessment.

On Tuesday your child came home with their new January goal. Please begin working on that goal at home as often as possible.

For my friends who has the goal of learning high frequency words, no matter what lost they have they can use the following to help them to learn them:

play bingo
roll them out in Play-Doh
tape them around the house and play "Find the word"
be a word detective and find them in your books
build the words with magnets
speed read them for fluency practice
make another copy and play memory
write them in a letter to a friend
rainbow write them