| 1. Numbers and Patterns | Students will learn to read and write numbers through 20. They will also work with place value, symbols for comparing numbers, and pictographs to explore numbers through 100. |
| Home Activity: Have your child count toys on a shelf or items in a grocery bag (up to 20). Practice comparing numbers (greater than, less than) such as two numbers on a calendar or two soccer team scores. |
| Literature: Read counting stories with your child.
One, Two, Three Count With Me - Catherine & Laurence Anholt
Ten Black Dots - Donald Crews |
| 2. Understanding Addition | Students learn two meanings of addition: joining two groups and adding on to a group. We will explore the algerbract concept of inverse relationships between equations. |
| Home Activity: Help your child learn and memorize basic facts through experiences that involve joining two groups or adding on to a given quantity. For example, add two separate groups of toys or add toys to an existing group of toys. |
| Literature: Read stories about addition with your child.
One Gorilla - Atsuko Morozumi
So Many Cats! - Beatrice Schenk De Regniers |
| 3. Understanding Subtraction | While studying basic subtraction facts, students learn two processes of subtraction: taking away and comparing groups. |
| Home Activity: Help your child learn and memorize basic subtraction facts by involving them in everyday experiences using subtraction. For example, ask your child how many toys are left when some of the toys have been removed from a group or ask your child how many more books are in one pile than in another pile. |
| Literature: Read stories about subtraction with your child.
Counting Kids - Annie Kubler
Ten Tiny Monsters - Shelia White Samton |
| 4. Introducing Basic Fact Strategies | Students learn several addition and subtraction strategies including using picture cues and counting on. |
| Home Activity: Cut out pictures of animals from magazines with your child. Then have your child glue different numbers of animal pictures on several sheets of paper. Work together to think of and write addition and subtraction stories for each sheet of pictures. |
| Literature: Read math-related stories with your child.
Freight Train - Donald Crews
Red Fox and His Canoe - Nathaniel Benchly |
| 5. Geometry and Fractions | Students learn to identify and compare solid and plane shapes. They also learn to identify fractions (halves, thirds, and fourths). |
| Home Activity: Help your child learn two- and three-dimensional shapes by observing objects around the house. Look at packages to compare cylinders, cubes, rectangular prisms, and cones. |
| Literature: Read stories and do activities with your child relating to geometry and fractions.
Exploring Shapes - Andrew King
Fraction Action - Loreen Leedy |
| 6. Patterns and Numbers to 100 | Students count, read, write, compare, and order numbers to 100. They also work with repeating patterns. |
| Home Activity: Make collections of household items such as buttons, bread tags, twist ties, or rubber bands. Together make groups of tens and ones to find how many of each collection you have. What happens when you add one more item? ten more items? |
| Literature: The following books review counting numbers to 100.
Anno's Counting Book - Mitsumasa Anno
One Watermelon Seed - Celia Barker Lottridge |
| 7. Relating Addition and Subtraction | Students expand their knowledge of basic facts to 16 and build on their understanding of the relationships between addition and subtraction. |
| Home Activity: Help your child memorize basic facts up to 16 by practicing them each day with flash cards or a deck of cards. When using flash cards, turn over two cards and ask your child to add or subtract the numbers on the cards. |
| Literature: Read stories and do activities with your child relating to addition and subtraction.
Mr. Grumpy's Outing - John Burningham
12 Ways to Get to 11 - Eve Merriam |
| 8. Addition and Subtraction to 20 | Students practice addition and subtraction facts to 20, add three numbers, and build on their understanding of the relationships between addition and subtraction. |
| Home Activity: Help your child memorize basic facts up to 20 by practicing them each day with flash cards. Encourage your child to use basic facts when solving everyday problems such as, "There are 15 oranges in the bag. We ate 6 of them. How many are left? |
| Literature: Read stories and do activities with your child relating to addition and subtraction.
Caps For Sale - Esphyr Slobodikina
Eat Up, Gemma - Sarah Hayes |
| 9. Money | Students learn the value of individual coins and groups of mixed coins are used to solve problems. |
| Home Activity: If your child has a coin bank at home, empty the contents and count the coins together. Encourage your child to group like coins together and begin counting with the coins of greatest value. |
| Literature: Read stories about money with your child.
Yard Sale - James Stevenson
Dollars and Cents for Harriet - Betsy and Giulio Maestro |
| 10. Time and Probability | Students learn to tell time to the hour and half hour and use a calendar. They also explore the concept of probability. |
| Home Activity: Help your child learn about the concept of time by making a schedule of your child's day and posting it on the refrigerator. Call your child's attention to the schedule and help him/her relate the time of scheduled activities to time on the clock. |
| Literature: Read stories about time with your child.
Tick-tock - James Dunbar
What's the Time? Benjamin Learns to Tell Time - Anne Leblanc |
| 11. Measurement | Students compare the length, weight, and capacity of objects and measure with nonstandard units. They also become familiar with measurement terms and concepts. |
| Home Activity: Provide several empty containers and have your child estimate how many 8-oz cups of water each container will hold. Then use a measuring cup to see how much water is needed to fill each container. Compare the containers with the actual amounts. |
| Literature: Read stories about measurement with your child.
The Carrot Seed - Ruth Krauss
How Big Is a Foot? - Rolf Myller |
| 12. Two-Digit Addition & Subtraction | Students learn to add and subtract two-digit numbers with regrouping. They also are introduced to rounding numbers and estimating to check answers. |
| Home Activity: Help your child practice adding and subtracting two-digit numbers without regrouping. For example, adding costs of two items such as 22 cents and 35 cents. |
| Literature: Read stories and do activities with your child relating to addition and subtraction.
Hold Tight, Bear! - Ron Maris
Sea Sums - Joy N. Hulme |