Skip to main content

Math - Mrs. Matthews

Posts

Last Week of School! 6/1/21

Hello Families, 
Well this is it! We have made it to our final week of the 2020-2021 school year. This is always a bittersweet time for me, but even more so this school year. We have been through a rollercoaster this year. From online learning to in person, mask wearing, covid precautions, and internet and zoom failures. Through the ups and downs you have all been patient and understanding, but most of all supportive. I will never be able to thank you all enough for your unwavering support and kind words as we navigated this unprecedented year of Kindergarten. I am so proud of our Kinders this year. They grew and learned in spite of the conditions and they taught me a thing or two along the way. Thank you so much for trusting me with your children this year! 
Below are a list of events for these final days of Kindergarten. Aside from the events below, we will spend the week packing up supplies, playing, and enjoying our last days together as a class. Please email if you have any questions. 
 

6/2 Move up Day

We are excited to welcome the first grade teachers to our Kindergarten classrooms. First grade teachers will provide a brief presentation about the amazing things students can expect in first grade next year.

6/3 Kindergarten Continuation Ceremony

Our Kindergarten Continuation Ceremony will be on Thursday 6/3 at 8:15am. All continuation ceremonies will be held over Zoom (zoom link will be emailed out the evening of 5/31). Students will be presented with a Continuation Certificate, small gift, and a round of applause. The ceremony will be recorded for any families unable to attend at that time.

6/3 Kindergarten End of Year Celebration

We will have an end of year celebration following our continuation ceremony. Students will make end of Kindergarten crowns, eat lots of goodies, have as many dance parties as they want, and have a last run around the playground. We cannot have parent volunteers join us in the building, but I promise to take pictures and email them out for you all to enjoy. I will need your help to make this celebration everything that out Kinders deserve. Please click here to view our sign-up genius to donate treats, drinks, and bubbles. Please send any donations with your student any time this week! 

6/3 Last Day of In-Person Learning - Half Day! 

Students will be released at 11:30am 

6/3 Parent Teacher Conferences via Zoom 1-8pm

6/4 Asynchronous Day - Final Field Trip Friday & Last Day of School! 

Today will be our final day of the school year. Students will access our final field trip Friday on Seesaw. You will also be able to view the virtual yearbook pages students signed for one another in our Seesaw classroom. 

6/4 Parent Teacher Conferences via Zoom 8am-12pm

Math Workshop: Dinosaur 5/21/21

Dear Families, 
This week we will bring science into math. We will use what we have learned about measurement and graphing to measure various dinosaurs, compare their height, and length. We will also sort and graph various dinosaurs based on their unique characteristics and our preference. 

Vocabulary

length, width, height, unit, measure, bar graph, picture graph, more, fewer, favorite
 

Math Workshop: Fact Fluency 5/17/21

Hi Families, 
This week we will continue working on fact fluency. Students will practice addition and subtraction to 10 using a variety of strategies that help build number sense and support accuracy. After accuracy students will build fluency using math games such at addition and subtraction war to build fluency and automaticity. If you haven't already, please remember to send your student's math tool kit and counters to school on Monday. We will also apply our fact fluency knowledge to answer math prod problems and demonstrate our thinking. 

Word List

add - more - subtract - take away - less - equals - in all - all together

Supporting Your Student at Home

You can support your student at home by logging in to Moby Max and practicing fluency skills for at least 10 minutes each day. 

Math Workshop 5/9/21

Hi Families, 
This week we will be working on fact fluency. Students will practice addition and subtraction to 10 using a variety of strategies that help build number sense and support accuracy. After accuracy students will build fluency using math games such at addition and subtraction war to build fluency and automaticity. If you haven't already, please remember to send your student's math tool kit and counters to school on Monday. We will also apply our fact fluency knowledge to answer math prod problems and demonstrate our thinking. 

Word List

add - more - subtract - take away - less - equals - in all - all together

Supporting Your Student at Home

You can support your student at home by logging in to Moby Max and practicing fluency skills for at least 10 minutes each day. 

Math Workshop - Time and Money 5/3/21

Dear Family,

 We will be moving forward from time and jumping into learning about money. While we are learned about time, we will talk about the difference between morning, afternoon, and evening. We will also learn how to tell time to the hour and  half hour.  In the money portion of our unit, we will learn how to name and recognize the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. We will also learn how to count different coin combinations and how to make change.

Unit Vocabulary 

Minute hand – the longer hand on a click that indicates the number of minutes.

Hour hand – the shorter hand on a clock that indicates the hour.

Half past – half an hour
 

Penny – one cent, 100 pennies equal one dollar

Nickel-  five cents, 20 nickels equal one dollar

Dime- ten cents, 10 dimes equal one dollar

Quarter – twenty-five cents, four quarters equal one dollar

Supporting Your Student at Home

oTake the change out of your pocket. Have your child tell you the names of the coins and how much each coin is worth.

oWrite different coin amounts inside cupcake liners. Have your child use coins to make the different totals and store the coins in the cupcake liners.

oOn the hour or half hour, have your child look at an analog clock and tell you the time.

oTelling time match up – using plastic eggs, draw a clock on one side, and the digital time on the other side (to the hour or half hour) Take the eggs apart and have your child match up the analog and digital times and put the eggs back together.

Math Workshop - Time and Money 4/26/21

Dear Family,

 In this unit, we will be learning about time and money. While we are learning about time, we will talk about the difference between morning, afternoon, and evening. We will also learn how to tell time to the hour and  half hour.  In the money portion of our unit, we will learn how to name and recognize the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. We will also learn how to count different coin combinations and how to make change.

Unit Vocabulary 

Minute hand – the longer hand on a click that indicates the number of minutes.

Hour hand – the shorter hand on a clock that indicates the hour.

Half past – half an hour
 

Penny – one cent, 100 pennies equal one dollar

Nickel-  five cents, 20 nickels equal one dollar

Dime- ten cents, 10 dimes equal one dollar

Quarter – twenty-five cents, four quarters equal one dollar

Supporting Your Student at Home

oTake the change out of your pocket. Have your child tell you the names of the coins and how much each coin is worth.

oWrite different coin amounts inside cupcake liners. Have your child use coins to make the different totals and store the coins in the cupcake liners.

oOn the hour or half hour, have your child look at an analog clock and tell you the time.

oTelling time match up – using plastic eggs, draw a clock on one side, and the digital time on the other side (to the hour or half hour) Take the eggs apart and have your child match up the analog and digital times and put the eggs back together.

Math Workshop - Time and Money 4/19/21

Dear Family,

 In this unit, we will be learning about time and money. While we are learning about time, we will talk about the difference between morning, afternoon, and evening. We will also learn how to tell time to the hour and  half hour.  In the money portion of our unit, we will learn how to name and recognize the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter. We will also learn how to count different coin combinations and how to make change.

Unit Vocabulary 

Minute hand – the longer hand on a click that indicates the number of minutes.

Hour hand – the shorter hand on a clock that indicates the hour.

Half past – half an hour
 

Penny – one cent, 100 pennies equal one dollar

Nickel-  five cents, 20 nickels equal one dollar

Dime- ten cents, 10 dimes equal one dollar

Quarter – twenty-five cents, four quarters equal one dollar

Supporting Your Student at Home

oTake the change out of your pocket. Have your child tell you the names of the coins and how much each coin is worth.

oWrite different coin amounts inside cupcake liners. Have your child use coins to make the different totals and store the coins in the cupcake liners.

oOn the hour or half hour, have your child look at an analog clock and tell you the time.

oTelling time match up – using plastic eggs, draw a clock on one side, and the digital time on the other side (to the hour or half hour) Take the eggs apart and have your child match up the analog and digital times and put the eggs back together.

Math Workshop: Geometry 4/12/21

Dear Family,

We will continue to differentiate between different 2D and 3D shapes. We will learn how to identify different shapes, explain how the shapes are different, sort the shapes into different categories, divide the shapes into equal parts, and identify 2D and 3D shapes in real life.

Vocabulary

Sort: Students will be able to separate shapes into different categories based on similarities and differences.

2D shapes:  Students will be able to identify plane shapes such as a circle, square, rectangle or triangle.

Corner: where two sides of a shape meet.

Sides: the outside lines that make up a shape. (Example – a triangle has 3 sides)

Supporting Your Student at Home

Point out an object to your child and have them identify what shape it is. For example, point to a plate, and ask your child, “What shape is this?” Go on and ask how many corners and sides they see.

Math Workshop - Geometry 4/5/21

Dear Family,

This unit is all about being able to differentiate between different 2D and 3D shapes. We will learn how to identify different shapes, explain how the shapes are different, sort the shapes into different categories, divide the shapes into equal parts, and identify 2D and 3D shapes in real life.

Vocabulary

Sort: Students will be able to separate shapes into different categories based on similarities and differences.

2D shapes:  Students will be able to identify plane shapes such as a circle, square, rectangle or triangle.

Corner: where two sides of a shape meet.

Sides: the outside lines that make up a shape. (Example – a triangle has 3 sides)

Supporting Your Student at Home

Point out an object to your child and have them identify what shape it is. For example, point to a plate, and ask your child, “What shape is this?” Go on and ask how many corners and sides they see.

Math Workshop: Fact Fluency 3/15/21

Dear Family,

We will wrap up counting and writing numbers to 40 with a post assessment. We will review how to use a tens and ones chart to show place value and  compare 2-digit numbers using the words greater than and less than. We will also learn how to put numbers in order, determine the missing number of a pattern, and determine what number is 10 more and 10 less than a given number. We will also be focusing on Fact Fluency and digging deeper into fact families. 

Vocabulary

Estimate- to find something close to the correct number.

Pattern-  an ordered set of numbers arranged according to a specific rule.

Number Line- a line with numbers place in the correct position.

Compare- to find out the difference between two numbers, to determine if one number is greater than, less than, or equal to another number.

Place Value-  the value of a digit depending on its place within the number.

Supporting Your Student at Home

oWrite some numbers (up to 40) on soda bottle tops or milk caps and:

ohave your child arrange the caps from greatest to least or least to great.

oHave your child pick two numbers and tell you which number is the greatest/least.

oHave your child pick a number and tell you what 10 more and 10 less than that number is.

oHave your child pick a number and tell you how many tens and ones there are in that number.

oHave your child pick a number and draw the base ten blocks to represent the number.

Math Workshop: Numbers to 40 3/8/21

Dear Family,

This week we will participate in asynchronous lessons from home. Students will watch pre-recorded lessons in Seeasaw and submit their work. We will wrap up counting and writing numbers to 40. We will learn how to use a tens and ones chart to show place value and  compare 2-digit numbers using the words greater than and less than. We will also learn how to put numbers in order, determine the missing number of a pattern, and determine what number is 10 more and 10 less than a given number. We will end our unit by learning how to estimate with groups of 10.

Vocabulary

Estimate- to find something close to the correct number.

Pattern-  an ordered set of numbers arranged according to a specific rule.

Number Line- a line with numbers place in the correct position.

Compare- to find out the difference between two numbers, to determine if one number is greater than, less than, or equal to another number.

Place Value-  the value of a digit depending on its place within the number.

Supporting Your Student at Home

oWrite some numbers (up to 40) on soda bottle tops or milk caps and:

ohave your child arrange the caps from greatest to least or least to great.

oHave your child pick two numbers and tell you which number is the greatest/least.

oHave your child pick a number and tell you what 10 more and 10 less than that number is.

oHave your child pick a number and tell you how many tens and ones there are in that number.

oHave your child pick a number and draw the base ten blocks to represent the number.

You can access our weekly learning calendar here. 

Math Workshop: Numbers to 40 3/1/21

Dear Family,

This week we continue with counting and writing numbers to 40. We will learn how to use a tens and ones chart to show place value and  compare 2-digit numbers using the words greater than and less than. We will also learn how to put numbers in order, determine the missing number of a pattern, and determine what number is 10 more and 10 less than a given number. We will end our unit by learning how to estimate with groups of 10.

Vocabulary

Estimate- to find something close to the correct number.

Pattern-  an ordered set of numbers arranged according to a specific rule.

Number Line- a line with numbers place in the correct position.

Compare- to find out the difference between two numbers, to determine if one number is greater than, less than, or equal to another number.

Place Value-  the value of a digit depending on its place within the number.

Supporting Your Student at Home

oWrite some numbers (up to 40) on soda bottle tops or milk caps and:

ohave your child arrange the caps from greatest to least or least to great.

oHave your child pick two numbers and tell you which number is the greatest/least.

oHave your child pick a number and tell you what 10 more and 10 less than that number is.

oHave your child pick a number and tell you how many tens and ones there are in that number.

oHave your child pick a number and draw the base ten blocks to represent the number.

Math Workshop: Numbers to 40 2/22/21

Dear Family,

This week we will wrap up unit 8 and move on to unit 9. This unit focuses on counting and writing numbers to 40. We will learn how to use a tens and ones chart to show place value and  compare 2-digit numbers using the words greater than and less than and the matching symbols. We will also learn how to put numbers in order, determine the missing number of a pattern, and determine what number is 10 more and 10 less than a given number. We will end our unit by learning how to estimate with groups of 10.

Vocabulary

Estimate- to find something close to the correct number.

Pattern-  an ordered set of numbers arranged according to a specific rule.

Number Line- a line with numbers place in the correct position.

Compare- to find out the difference between two numbers, to determine if one number is greater than, less than, or equal to another number.

Place Value-  the value of a digit depending on its place within the number.

Supporting Your Student at Home

oWrite some numbers (up to 40) on soda bottle tops or milk caps and:

ohave your child arrange the caps from greatest to least or least to great.

oHave your child pick two numbers and tell you which number is the greatest/least.

oHave your child pick a number and tell you what 10 more and 10 less than that number is.

oHave your child pick a number and tell you how many tens and ones there are in that number.

oHave your child pick a number and draw the base ten blocks to represent the number.

Math Workshop: Data Collection and Graphing 2/15/21

Dear Family,

This week we will wrap up our unit on data collection and graphing. We will learn how to collect data and then sort and organize it on a Venn Diagram. We will also learn how to create bar graphs, tally charts, pictures graphs, line graphs, and circle graphs. Finally, we will learn how to read and interpret the information presented on the graphs / charts.

Vocabulary

Venn Diagram – an organizer made from two interlocking circles, used to show similarities and differences between 2 or more objects.

Picture Graph- a display of information using pictures or symbols to represent different quantities. 

Line graph – a graph that uses points connected by lines to show how the value of something changes.

Bar Graph – a display of information using vertical or horizontal rectangular bars to show the value of different items.

Supporting Your Student at Home

oEmpty the coins out of your pocket – have your child create a tally chart and bar graph showing the amount of coins.

oHave your child call family members to collect data and create a chart or graph of their choice. Examples of great questions to ask to collect data are:  What is your favorite season? What is your favorite holiday? What color are your eyes? How many pets do you have? What is your favorite color?

100th Day of School! 2/11/21

Hello Families! 
Can you believe it is almost the 100th Day of School? In Kindergarten we love to celebrate by doing all things 100. We will make 100th day necklaces, count to 100 many different ways, try to read 100 books, and have 100 dance parties. Students will come to school dressed like they are 100 years old and imagine what they would do if they had $100.00! 
Congratulations! We've made it to the 100th Day of School.