Grade 1 Month 7 The Wonder of Skip Counting
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CA$44.00
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Your child will further develop their skills with the four processes and continue to work with their sense of numbers. They will also strengthen their understanding of grouping and patterns through activities focused on skip counting.
This purchase is for a digital download (PDF) of 1 month of curriculum and includes access to our members-only area with supporting documents, videos, resources and community for one month.
This purchase is for a digital download (PDF) of 1 month of curriculum and includes access to our members-only area with supporting documents, videos, resources and community for one month.
Curriculum Areas/Learning Outcomes
Language Arts: Concept: Stories and other texts can be shared through pictures and words.
Connection: Your child will be hearing stories every day and using those stories to build images related to central ideas.
Math: Concept 1: Numbers to 20 represent quantities that can be decomposed into 10s and 1s.
Connection: Your child will practice daily with addition, subtraction, and grouping with numbers up to 30.
Concept 2: Addition and subtraction with numbers to 10 can be modelled concretely, pictorially, and symbolically to develop computational fluency.
Connection: Your child will review the qualities of the four processes and build a picture of those processes with numbers up to 30.
Concept 3: Repeating elements in patterns can be identified.
Connection: Your child will practice skip counting every day that will highlight patterns in times tables.
Science: Concept: Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environment. Connection: Your child will use time outside to explore how the plants and creatures find their way forth in the Spring. These plants and creatures will form the base of the living picture for math stories.
Connection: Your child will be hearing stories every day and using those stories to build images related to central ideas.
Math: Concept 1: Numbers to 20 represent quantities that can be decomposed into 10s and 1s.
Connection: Your child will practice daily with addition, subtraction, and grouping with numbers up to 30.
Concept 2: Addition and subtraction with numbers to 10 can be modelled concretely, pictorially, and symbolically to develop computational fluency.
Connection: Your child will review the qualities of the four processes and build a picture of those processes with numbers up to 30.
Concept 3: Repeating elements in patterns can be identified.
Connection: Your child will practice skip counting every day that will highlight patterns in times tables.
Science: Concept: Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environment. Connection: Your child will use time outside to explore how the plants and creatures find their way forth in the Spring. These plants and creatures will form the base of the living picture for math stories.
Curriculum Overview
During this unit you will review the four processes of math + - x / through the characters that you introduced in Month 5. You will spend a fair bit of time outside where you will observe what is happening around you (for those in the Northern Hemisphere, like us, it will be early Spring when things are birthing). We suggest you find a way to spend a minimum of 30 minutes outside each day either before, during, or after your morning lesson. From your experiences in nature, you will bring daily math activities that will support the deepening of foundation skills with the four processes. The morning lesson will provide you with guidance for practice and with a new element each day. New elements will be based on your outdoor experiences and the following schedule: Week 1 – skip counting routine set-up; Week 2 – adding and subtracting focus as well as visual for skip counting; Week 3 – multiplying and dividing as well as finishing off the skip counting visual. In addition to the math work in the morning lesson, DW recommends that you provide 15 minutes per day for your child to work in a leveled, location-based math workbook (for Year One, DW recommends you focus this practice on four processes worked horizontally with numbers to 30, simple shape identification, simple graphs, and numeracy). You will also want to provide up to 30 minutes each day for reading. Reading can be an adult reading aloud, a child reading aloud, or silent reading.
Parent Preparation
Since the month is math-focused, you will need your numbers display up to 20 or 30 and a bag/basket of counting materials x 30. If you are planning to have your child complete the Flex Week project: ‘Coding through Knitting’, you will need size 7 knitting needles and thick, chunky wool. Needles should be wood since metal is too slippery for learning. If you want to make your own, look here. Since you’ll be outside every day possible, it would be nice for you to tell nature-based stories again. One suggestion is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.