The Prodigy Math password is now 123456. The other passwords were hard for kids to remember. Now it is the same as the Superkids password 🙂

 

So now that the children are feeling comfortable with weight, we are going to apply that knowledge to something that's harder to conceptualize. Dinosaurs!

This week, we'll compare each kid's dinosaur to something they are familiar with in everyday living to help them understand how much their researched dinosaur weighs. 

This week in math we are continuing our measurement unit and continuing to learn measurements related to dinosaurs. This week, we will look at weight. You can support kids at home by weighing things around the house.

This week in Math we will be continuing our time unit with telling time to the hour, half hour, and quarter hour using digital and analog clocks. We are also covering how days of the week and months of the year are measurements of time. They don't know them perfectly yet, but hopefully pretty soon they'll come home singing days of the week and months of the year songs.If they do, you can support them at home by listening to them, and if they don't you can show them how your family uses calendars and clocks to get things done.

In math, we are continuing to work with shapes, and focusing on attributes of shapes. We will be counting corners and sides and comparing shape attributes. Now that you've probably had your child pointing out shapes in the real world around you, have them tell you how they know it is that shape. By the end of the week, you could be asking them how many sides and corners it has.

This week begins a very popular subject in kindergarten! We begin learning how to recognize shapes in our world and name them. You can encourage your child to notice shapes as you drive around, or even just hanging out at home. We start with 2D shapes this week.

This week we are expanding skills with place value. The song we use is to the tune of Dreidel. 

Bundle Bundle Bundle

We made a group of ten

We moved it to the tens place and then we start again.

 

Sing this at home with kids to reinforce the concept. 

Kids are now going to decide when to add and when to subtract to solve problems with depth and complexity in math workshop. You can support them add home by showing them how you decide if you need to add or subtract when you are solving problems. For example, when preparing snacks for an outing over the weekend, you might throw in one snack and then say something about how many people are going, and that you need to add some snacks. Then, maybe throw in too many and say you have too many now, and will subtract so that you have exactly enough for everyone.

In math this week, we are continuing to do math workshop with depth and complexity to solve math problems. Our goal by the end of the week is to be comfortable with using math language to describe subtraction work, and to represent subtraction in multiple ways. To support at home, demonstrate practical subtraction with your children. For instance, if you are getting the silverware to set the dinner table, you might grab a handful of forks. Then, say oh there are only four people eating dinner tonight, so I will take away some of these forks and put them back in the drawer. You could then count how many you grabbed to begin with, and show that if you take away four, how many will you need to put back in the drawer. Let your child solve the problem with you. Really focus on the words "take away," "subtract," and "minus" where you can.

This week in math, we finish up some presentations about the "Dog Sled" problem. You can ask them how one boy helped the other by letting him borrow dogs to pull his sled that was too full of fish to move. In the "Hot Cocoa" problem, kids are continuing to learn to use math language and to find the details in a story to help them find solutions to problems.