Math in Kindergarten Lisa Sherman Math Science Teacher

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Math in KindergartenLisa ShermanMath Science
Teacher
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Math in Fairfield

• Workshop teaching mini lesson, independent work
  time, share or wrap-up
• Focus on building independence and the sharing of
  strategies through discourse
• A blend of inquiry based investigations and skill
  based instruction
• Meet students at their level of understanding
  developmental model vs. deficit model

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What your child will learn

• Unit 1 Counting and Matching Numerals 0-5
• Focus on developing the benchmark number of 5.
• Unit 2 Geometry
• Basic shapes 2-D and 3-D
• Unit 3 Counting and Matching Numbers 6-10 with
  matching
• Moving to the ten structure? basis for our number
  system!
• Also work on proper number formation

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What your child will learn

• Unit 4 Counting and Matching Numerals 11-20
• Working explicitly with teen numbers
• Decomposing numbers
• Unit 5 Addition and Subtraction within 5
• Mastery is not expected? building concepts!
• Unit 6 Developing Place Value Concepts
• Unit 7 Measurement

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How can you get your child ready for math in
Kindergarten?

• COUNT!

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Getting ready for Kindergarten

• Make math happen throughout the day
• Time ? what does the clock say when you wake
  up? Eat breakfast? Catch the bus? Go to sleep?
  
• Estimating? How many items in our grocery cart?
  Birds on a tree? Coins in my pocket?
• Compare ? Do we have more or less than
  ten bowls on the table?

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Getting ready for Kindergarten

• Share coins with your child- identify each one,
  talk about how much they are worth
• Shapes- find shapes all around you
• Look for patterns, create patterns using
  household objects
• Play games!
• Parent math website
• http//fairfieldpublicschoolsk5math.wikispaces.c
  om/home

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Read math books!
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