We have been working with numbers in math.  Our goals are to use, read and represent numbers in a variety of meaningful ways.  Here are some examples of how we have been working on this is class. 

Students take turns being "The Count".  The count's jobs are to count a selection of items in a bag using our "good counting strategies" - put objects in a line, point to each object 1 time, and count slowly.  We also work on representing numbers in a variety of ways including pictures, numbers and words.

 

 

 We spend a lot of time working on developing one-to-one correspondence a give students variety of ways to practice this still during activity time.  We play games using a certain number of objects to build.  We also made our own dominos and have build a big domino board in our hallway. 

14 blocks high!

Here is an example of a number line students made in class.  Students use the number line as a reference tool when reading and representing numbers.

 

 

 One way for students develop a strong sense of what numbers mean is to relate them to their own life so they think and talk about numbers in meaningful ways.  In this task students represented the number of people in their family.

 

You can your child develop a strong sense of numbers by exploring and talking about numbers in meaningful ways at home.  Ask your child to put one fork on the table for each person at the table, count the people in the car, pose simple problems such as "There are four of us watching a movie.  If Grandma and Grandpa came over how many more people would we have?'