Another part of Daily 5 is "Reading to a teacher". This is new for us, but we are slowly making progress. Although the words may not always be correct, we are working on turning pages left to right, following text, and understanding that words have meaning. These are all great pre reading skills.
Our class is participating in a study, piloting a new Math App called Math Shelf. At the end of the study we should have access to the App commercially as well as the written curriculum to go along with the App. It is loosely based on Montessori approaches to math. We are focusing much attention on number sense. The children are using dice fairly regularly in our hands on math activities. It is amazing how quickly they have learned to recognize the standard configurations of numbers. Without even counting dots on the dice many children are able to roll and cover the correct number simply by looking at the spacing of the dots. We are also working on recognizing the numbers in a ten frame.
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