Welcome to 2011! It was great to have all 23 students back together again, eager to share their many holiday small moments. There was such excitement in the air! I also had a wonderful Christmas season, visiting with family and friends, as well as having lots of outdoor fun skating and cross-country skiing.
Thank you one and all, for your continued support! It was lovely to see so many parents and siblings at our December classroom celebration. I would also like to take this moment, to express my sincerest thank you for the thoughtful card and Lululemon gift certificate. It was truly a most kind and thoughtful gift!
What will we be learning in January you ask? Let's have a look!
MATH OUTCOMES
*creating and solving addition and subtraction problems continues
* learning our basic addition and subtraction facts (to 18),
using mental math strategies,
such as
*using doubles
*making 10
*using the commutative property
*using the property of zero
*thinking addition for subtraction
Did you know.....
85% of all the math we do is mental math?
When we teach "tricks" students learn to bypass the mathematics
Parents, please check out the mental math web link for a detailed explanation of this important outcome.
