Math Families/Math Homework

We started Math Families today!  Math Families practice is  a way for your child to see relationships between numbers and build upon their number sense.  This allows them to establish and deepen their understanding of how numbers can be put together and taken apart.  Your child will go through a number of hands-on activities for each number (train building, dappy shake up, number stories, etc).  We started with the number 5 and will go through all of the steps for the number 5 as a group.  Eventually, this will be independent work.  Students will have to check each other's work while I conference with students about the number they are working on.  My FAVORITE aspect of Math Families is that it a hands on way for each child to work at his or her OWN pace.  One student might be on 20 and another on 7 and that is completely okay!  We are VERY fortunate to have a lot of adult support in the room at this time which will really help the successful roll-out of Math Families and make the most out of all of these new discoveries!  Let me know if you have any questions!

Tomorrow, your child will be bringing home a short page to work on as a way to review some math skills.  Please feel free to support your child as much or as little as you'd like.