Number concepts:

• This week we will focus on basic subtraction. (During our class on Wednesday at 10 am this will be our focus.)

• Watch the videos about subtraction.

• Draw a picture and write the subtraction sentence. (ex. 5 hearts - 3 hearts = 2 or 8 cats - 4 cats = 4). Take a picture and send the picture to Mrs. Jones.

• Do the subtraction assignments on Splashlearn Math.

Patterns (review):

• This year, we learned to identify, describe, extend, and create patterns (with 2 or 3 elements) and to find the core, or the part that repeats.

• We made AB, ABB, and ABC patterns, as well as challenged ourselves to make even harder patterns. We can make patterns with colors, shapes, size and position.

• Watch the videos about patterns.

• Collect objects from around your house, and make 3 different patterns (AB, ABB and ABC). Can you find the core?

• Using paper and markers, draw 3 different patterns and cirlce the core. Again, can you make all 3 kinds of patterns (AB, ABB, ABC)?

• Send Mrs. Jones a picture of the patterns that you made.

Number concepts:

• We have already introduced the concept, but this week we will focus on basic addition. (During our class on Wednesday at 10 am this will be our focus.)

• Watch the videos about addition.

• Draw a picture and write the addition sentence. (ex. 2 hearts + 3 hearts = 5 or 5 cats + 4 dogs = 9). Take a picture and send the picture to Mrs. Jones.

• Do the addition assignments on Splashlearn Math.

Geometry (review):

• Review the 3-D or solid shapes that we learned: cube, cone, sphere, cylinder, pyramid, triangular prism, rectangular prism.

• Watch the 2 geometry videos.

• See what solids you can find around your house. Name and describe them. (ex. This is a cylinder. It has 2 circles. It can roll and stack. / This is a cube. It has squares on every side. It can stack and slide. A dice is a cube.)

• Complete the "Three Dimensional Figures" assignment on Splashlearn Math.

• Review the ways that we can sort objects (by color, size, shape, what it's made of, how many sides or corners, etc.)

• Watch the sorting video.

• Find objects around your home and practice sorting them in different ways and telling the sorting rule.

• Complete the Splashlearn Math assignments for sorting.

Number concepts:

• Count, count, count every day!

• Count out 10 small toys or objects. How many ways can you divide the 10 objects into 2 groups (ex. 5 and 5, 2 and 8). Can you write the math equation for each of your arrangements? (ex. 5+5=10, 2+8=10)

• Watch the video "Ways to Make 10"

• Draw some tenframes (you need 11 if you are going to make all of the ways). Using two colors, put in ten circles (ex. 1 red and 9 green, or 5 red and 5 green), then print the math equation for your picture (1+9=10, 5+5=10). Can you find all of the ways to make 10? (don't forget 10+0 and 0+10).

• Watch the video "What Numbers Make 10"

• Do at least one counting assignment on Splashlearn Math.

Measurement:

• This week we are learning about measuring mass, or how much something weighs. Again, in kindergarten, students are expected to make direct comparisons. Vocabulary to emphasize this week include: heavy, light, heavier, lighter, about the same, balance scale.

• Watch my video about mass.

• Pick two items from your home that you can hold in your hands. Which one is heavier? which one is lighter? Ask someone else in your family to hold the same two objects and see if they agree. Repeat with more objects.

• Watch videos "Sesame Street: Ernie's Heavy and Light" and "The Elephant Mass Song".

• Choose one of your shoes. Can you find 3 things in your house that are heavier than your shoe? 3 things that are lighter than your shoe? Can you find anything that weighs about the same?

• Complete the "weight" assignment on Splashlearn Math.

• You can also use materials from home and design your own scale like the ones in the pictures below. Use your scales to explore small objects that are heavier, lighter or about the same mass.

Number concepts:

• Count, count, count every day! Dump out a bin of toys (or pick a handful from a bin) and count your objects. Get a second handful (or bin) and count it. Which is there more of? less of? or were they equal? Repeat 2 more times.

• Watch and move to the Count to 20 video.

• Pick some favourite toys or objects. Roll a dice. Can you copy the pattern on your dice with the toys? Repeat until you have rolled all 6 numbers.

• Draw a big tenframe (or ask your mom to draw one for you). Gather some small objects. Roll a dice. Put one more than what you rolled on your tenframe. (ex. if you roll a 6, you put 7 objects on your tenframe). Repeat with putting one less.

• Do at least one counting assignment on Splashlearn Math.

Measurement:

• This week we are learning about measuring capacity, or how much something holds. Again, in kindergarten, students are expected to make direct comparisons. Vocabulary to emphasize this week include: capacity, holds, empty, full, half full, about the same or equal, more, less.

• Watch my videos (it's in two parts - when you watch you will see why! ) about capacity.

• Gather some containers from around your house and either a bucket of water or sand, and compare the capacity of the containers you found. Remember to use words like "this one hold more" "this one holds less" "these hold about the same".

• Watch videos "Comparing Capacity: Kindergarten" and "Sesame Street: Two Headed Monster".

• Choose your favourite cup. Can you find 3 things in your house that hold more than your cup? 3 things that hold less? Can you find anything that holds the same?

• Complete the "capacity" assignment on Splashlearn Math.

1. Continue to count every day! Subitize small groups when you can. You can also start adding two groups together (I see 3 dogs and 2 cats so that is 5 animals) or counting on (I see 4 chairs at the table, and then count on the rest in your house 4, 5, 6, 7).

   • How many rooms are in your house? How many pets do you have? How many people live in your house?

   • How many times can you jump without stopping? Ask your mom or dad to jump and see how many they can do. Who can do more? less?

   • Roll two dice. Subitize the first number, and then count on to find the total. For example, if I roll a 5 and a 3, I would subitize the 5 and then touch the dots on the three as I count, so I would say "5, 6, 7, 8".

   • Pick out 8 objects (rocks, stuffed toys, little cars, etc.). Count them. How many do you have? Now arrange them in two groups (ex. 4 and 4). How many are in each group? How many altogether? Can you arrange them a different way? How many in each group now? How many altogether? Repeat with different numbers

   • Complete the counting activities on Splashlearn Math.

2. For the next three weeks, we will learn a little bit about measurement. In Kindergarten, all measurement is done by direct comparison between two objects.

   • This week we will learn about comparing height and length. Watch my video about comparing the length of two objects. The important things is that children learn to line up the bases.

   • Go around your house and pick up two objects. Predict which is longer. Then line up the bases and see which one "sticks up more" and therefore is longer. Did you guess correctly? Repeat with other pairings (some obviously different and some that are really close).

   • Go find one of your shoes. Go on a hunt around the house to find 5 things that are longer than your shoe and 5 things that are shorter than your shoe. Can you find anything that is about the same as your shoe?

   • We compare height in the same way as length. The bases must be level (which works naturally when we are standing on the same surface).

   • Watch the "Short or Tall" video.

   • Who is the tallest in your family? The shortest?

   • Build 2 towers with whatever blocks you have. Which tower is shorter? Which is taller? Can you make them the same height?

   • Complete the two measurement assignments (Length and Height) on Splashlearn Math.