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Math
In September we will focus on five things:
1. Explore sorting and patterning.
Patterns are an integral part of mathematics. A pattern can be physical,
visual or auditory. Children learn to describe, reproduce, extend and
create patterns having two to four elements and translate them from one
representation to another. For example, the physical pattern, “snap,
snap, slap, clap, clap” could also be represented with letters, “A, A,
B, C, C” or colours, “red, red, yellow, blue, blue”.
2. Reciting the days of the week and months of the year in order.
3. Counting by 1's to 100.
4. Representation of numbers to 10. The
focus is on number relationships, including concepts such as
Conservation of Number, “more than” and “fewer than”, estimation and
solving simple problems involving number.
5. Combining sets (beginning addition)
Something to think about:
When children estimate, they are using
prior knowledge to make a reasonable guess. Teaching children how to use
a referent or anchor, such as 5 or 10, helps them develop number
relationships through comparison. For example, “if this much is 5, then I
think the whole thing must be 12.”
L.A.
In September we will work on reading
readiness; letters and sounds, rhyming, patterns, printing etc. Home
Reading will begin in October.
In writing we will focus on drawing and using our knowledge of sounds to print ideas.
We will begin a weekly Word Wall Word and Spelling Word Booklet that will come home beginning the week of September 23rd. A weekly Math problem will also come home that day.
Science
Topics for September and October are Creating Colour and Seasonal Changes in Autumn.
Social Studies
We have begun our first topic, Belonging
in My World, with getting to know each other through an interview and
story writing activity.
