Friday, April 12

   Friday, April 12
        Happy Birthday Knox and Miss Smith!

Math: Subtraction with Fingers
Fingers are very useful at a young age to see an abstract concept such as subtraction become a concrete visual for 'taking away'. The kids will be practicing a variety of subtraction statements such as this:
There are 4 apples in the apple tree  (put up 4 fingers) 2 apples fall off the tree. (take down two fingers) How many are left? 4 apples take away 2 apples is 2!
They will also learn another finger technique called 'Touch and Count Back’. Let’s say there were 7 birds in the tree and 3 birds flew away. I’m going to touch my head to keep 7 in my brain and count back 3 using three fingers. 7 (touch head)…6, 5, 4 (counting using your three fingers to hold a place for each bird that flew away). 
7 take away 3 is 4! 
I have 5 shirts and 2 get dirty.  How many are clean?  I will put 5 in my brain and then count back 2!  5….4, 3 (holding up one finger for each dirty shirt). 3 shirts are clean.”  This concept can be VERY difficult for some and will take lots of modeling. 

Project #1:  We're making fossils!

Project #2: Dinosaur Silhouette Painting

 Music Today

Computer class this afternoon.

It's time to shop at the Irish Pride Store this afternoon! Again, your child has the choice to spend their tickets or save them for a bigger item.

~No extra news for today.

Have a great weekend!