That's right! Now that we have taken our measurement post assessment and finished our addition and subtraction pre-assessments we are going to FLY into addition with the help of the lady that puts the add in Adler. I may or may not have been working on my addition super hero cape all weekend for this!
Addition and subtraction is a fun and exciting unit! We will be focusing on addition for the next few weeks. We will discuss all the ways we can add two numbers together to make 10. For example: 0+10=10, 1+9=10, 2+8=10………8+2=10, 9+1=10, 10+0=10. We will practice using manipulatives to put two groups of numbers together and count how many we have in all. We will also begin discussing vocabulary words that tell us we will be adding two numbers together. What you can do at home: Practice all the ways to make combinations of 10. When students master this they can work on combinations of 20. Here are our addition and subtraction standards: MGSEK.OA.1 Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings1 , sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. MGSEK.OA.2 Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem. MGSEK.OA.3 Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation. (drawings need not include an equation). MGSEK.OA.4 For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation. MGSEK.OA.5 Fluently add and subtract within 5. Also, this week in reading, I will be reading with students individually giving them their reading level assessment to see how much they have grown as readers! The students are pumped because this means they can go "book shopping" and switch out their books in their book boxes for more challenging and rigorous books! My superstars love to challenge themselves and LOVE to see their growth! They are also excited because like I told them we are going to delve into our animal unit by connecting it to what we have been learning about in reading. The students will get to explore non-fiction books about animals! I will teach students that readers can respond to the text by reading the words then using the pictures to learn even more information. We will practice saying things like, “The words say_____. I also see ______ in the picture and it makes me think ______. We will discuss that when readers read, they think, “How does this page fit with the title?” They also stop midway to think, “How do all these pages fit together so far?” After reading, they stop again to think, “What is the WHOLE book mostly about?” Readers do a lot of stopping and thinking all along the way to figure out what the book is mostly about. We will also learn that when readers find a topic they are interested in, they can read more than one book on that topic to learn as much new information as they can. Remember there is no school for the students Monday, so I will see them Tuesday! (:
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