This year in 1st grade, your child will be developing number sense. This is the main focus of our curriculum. Your child will develop an understanding of adding and subtracting with one and two digit numbers, understand five and ten relationships, counting and number patterns, tens and ones place value, comparing and ordering numbers to 100, adding and subtracting with tens and ones, length, time, analyzing data, and geometry. We will use a variety of strategies to teach and learn these concepts. We will use ten-frames, counters, place value mats, cubes, and other hands-on materials.
In order to help your child develop these concepts I will be sending home a letter about the math unit we are beginning. In the letter it will explain what we are about to learn as well as some at home activities you can do with your child. As your child brings home their daily math page you can review the skill and complete any problems that were not completed at school. This will help reinforce the skill at home.
Other activities you can do as we begin the new school year is to practice counting by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's. You can do this in the car, while you prepare dinner, or anywhere else. Just a few minutes a day helps develop number sense of what numbers are bigger and smaller.
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