Math!

We continue to practice our addition math facts! Many of the children have successfully completed 100 problems in 5 minutes, and are now at 4, 3, and even 2 minutes! If your child is still working to complete their 100 problem test in a 5 minute time period, please spend a few minutes over the weekend or after school during the week reviewing their facts. We will be moving on to subtraction after the holiday break, and it will help them greatly if they already have their addition facts firmly in place. It will also help them during our daily math lessons, and prepare them for skills that are coming up, too!

We have finished Unit 4 and we've begun Unit 5, which focuses on Geometry. We started off by looking at the attributes that various shapes have. The children looked critically at a number of shapes to determine what they had in common- whether it be their size, shape, color, number of sides, etc. We will move on to also consider the length of sides, number of parallel sides, and "square" or right angles when determining the similarities and differences of these shapes.