November 14-15

 Dear Parents,

We hope you all had a restful fall break!  The next few weeks will go by quickly as we work towards our Winter Concert and all the festivities that come along with the season.

Please watch for our Parent Communication Duotang to come home next week.  In there, you will find an update of your child’s skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s and counting backward from 20-1.  

Math

Although it was a short week, we worked hard to represent our understanding of numbers up to 50.  The following is a summary of the concepts and an illustration of some of the tools that we used to show our understanding of these larger numbers. 

Learning Intention:

I can represent numbers to 50. 

I can describe what the representations show.

Using 10-frames to Represent Numbers

Students will use full 10-frames and one partially full 10-frame to represent numbers that include some tens and some additional ones.

•	For example, they can show 35 as:
•	They can show 27 as:

When a number under 100 has two parts as these do, showing some groups of ten as well as some ones, it is called a two-digit number.

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Helping Your Child

Provide opportunities for your child to count at home in situations where there are up to 50 items. You can count aloud with your child if your child finds that helpful.

Play a card game. Create two sets of cards, one showing the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 and the other showing the numbers 0 through 9. Place each set in a pile, face down. Turn over one card from each pile and have your child say the number. (Use the pile containing 1, 2, 3, and 4 for the tens digit of each number.) For example, if you turn over a 2 and a 7, your child should say “27.”

Literacy

During our focused literacy lessons we have been learning about one of the sounds that “C” makes.  This week we concluded our lessons on learning C says “k”.  The following are some home practice that your child may do to solidify their understanding of this tricky sound.  

We have now completed focused literacy lessons for the following sounds:

a    m s  t  p  f  i  n  o  c  d 

Just like counting, continued review and practice of letter sounds and making words help to solidify them into automatic skills in both reading and writing.