This month in math we will be focusing on reading, writing, and using the numbers to 20. Earlier the children made number cards to 10 and worked on putting them in order from left to right. (Rather than from right to left!) Then they told the teacher what number comes before or after a given number, or what is one more or one less than that number. (This also was an introduction to addition and subtraction.) The children will be making number cards now for the numbers above 10 all the way to 20, and will be using these for similar activities.
We will continue using our individual calendar folders each day to record the date, the number of days we have been in school, the weather, and who lost a tooth that day. Ask your child to explain to you the work we do in these folders.
We will continue to work with patterns each day, first emphasizing simple patterns, called AB, using colors, shapes, numbers, letters, size, objects, and position. Later we will construct patterns that are more complicated, such as AABB, AAB, ABB, and ABC.
We will explore the various attributes of shapes, and where shapes can be found in the world. In addition, we will begin to talk about measuring: why we measure, the various way to measure, and the tools that are used.
