Thankfully, we'll only be doing assessments on Wednesday and Thursday, not all week!
Still, our focus for Monday and Tuesday will be to continue with review and to look at bar graphs and counting money. We'll also count the faces, edges, and vertices of some 3-D shapes the students made last week.
Counting money is a small part of the curriculum, but it is an addition and subtraction concept and a valuable life-skill. As I've mentioned in earlier posts, coins can be used to practice skip counting. If you have some change at home, please have your child count it for you. Discuss how to recognize the various coins and their values. I'll be using plastic money at school, but being able to handle and count the real thing will be beneficial for your child. Last week I added two online Canadian money games to the Websites tab. There were some access problems for most students when we tried them at school on Friday, so maybe they'll work better at home. They are:
Peter Pig's Money Counter
Money Metropolis
The class average on the practice quizzes we completed over the last couple of months improved with each quiz. We went from 58% to 81% during that time. The format of the quizzes is very much like the actual assessments, so I am hopeful that having the opportunity to do those quizzes and discuss some of the answers afterwards has been helpful to students.
I will be sending home a sheet with more practice and review questions on it. They will be due Friday.
Hope many of you will make it to Family Fun Night this Friday, June 7th.
Still, our focus for Monday and Tuesday will be to continue with review and to look at bar graphs and counting money. We'll also count the faces, edges, and vertices of some 3-D shapes the students made last week.
Counting money is a small part of the curriculum, but it is an addition and subtraction concept and a valuable life-skill. As I've mentioned in earlier posts, coins can be used to practice skip counting. If you have some change at home, please have your child count it for you. Discuss how to recognize the various coins and their values. I'll be using plastic money at school, but being able to handle and count the real thing will be beneficial for your child. Last week I added two online Canadian money games to the Websites tab. There were some access problems for most students when we tried them at school on Friday, so maybe they'll work better at home. They are:
Peter Pig's Money Counter
Money Metropolis
The class average on the practice quizzes we completed over the last couple of months improved with each quiz. We went from 58% to 81% during that time. The format of the quizzes is very much like the actual assessments, so I am hopeful that having the opportunity to do those quizzes and discuss some of the answers afterwards has been helpful to students.
I will be sending home a sheet with more practice and review questions on it. They will be due Friday.
Hope many of you will make it to Family Fun Night this Friday, June 7th.
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