Numbers, Numbers, Numbers...

This week we are working on making reasonable estimations, counting groups of items, organizing items to make it easier to count, and figuring out where numbers belong on a number line.  

HOW YOU CAN HELP

Have your child count to 100 by by 1's, 5's, and 10's. 

Have your child skip count by 2's as high as they can (at least to 30).

Print a number between 1-100 (or higher) and ask them to say the number.

'22 is before 23 and after 21...'

'What number did I cover?'

'27 is between 26 and 28...'

'Number 8 is under the block...because 8 is after 7...'

'32 is the missing number!  It's after 31...'

'Let's count by 4's...'

'We organized by 5's...5's are easy to count...'

'We organized by 5's since we both know how to count by 5's...'

'We counted by 2's...2, 4, 6, 8,...'

'We have a lot so counting by 10's was good...'

'Counting by 5's is easy so we did 5's...'

We studied 100 charts and put puzzles together to find the missing numbers.

We organized and counted our 'collections' from home...

'I have 82 Pokemon cards...'

'I found all of these shells at the beach...'

'I will count my Shopkins by 2's...'

'I have a lot so I am going to count by 10's...'

'I'm counting by 2's...'

'I am going to organize them in groups of 5...'

'My rocks are in piles of 10...'

Then we practiced using big numbers....like really BIG numbers...