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Kto3rd Math Meeting - 1st Grade

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What Will Be Done During Week 02

Math Meeting (every day at the begining of lesson time):

• Counts by 1's (forward to 100, them backward)

• Identifies months of the year

• Identifies days of the week

• Spells the current month name

• Knows how to write the date

• Knows the difference between date and day

• Identifies yesterday, today, and tomorrow

• Expanded and standard form

Lessons:

• Monday: L06 - Geometric Shapes

• Tuesday: L07 - Most, Fewest, Same on Graph

• Wednesday: L08 - Directional Words

• Thursday: L09 - Counting up to 100 and Back

• Friday: L10 - Bar Graphs

 

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SLIDES

You can download Week 02 Slides HERE. These are wbd files are are run with any of the the Elluminate online whiteboards. You can get your own free three-seater version, vRoom, to run the slides HERE.

 

 Months of the Year; Knuckle Method

Most of my kids learned the months of the year last year and were introduced to the knuckle method already, but they love singing the months of the year song and showing that they have already mastered it. I typically have let the kids volunteer to sing it. Several wanted to sing it more than once a day. LOL The knuckle method is a way to know how many days are in each month. The months are listed in order with each new one said moving the student to the next knuckle or valley between the knuckles. They jump from index finger knuck to the next one when they get there. All the months up on a knuckle have 31 days. All the months in the valleys have 30 except February. We discuss leap year often when reviewing this method. You will notice that this slide will be integrated into a new calendar slide in a few weeks. It will be one of the moveable cards.

 

 Spelling the Month

Practice with spelling July. I would have the letters out of order and challenge the kids to put them in order. Since these are first graders just begining to learn to read, I offer lots of clues and help. We used mics and chat box for them to give their opinions of the correct order.

 

 

 Calendar Skills

Quite a number of skills are all worked on simultaneously on this slide. I usually start them out singing the Days of the Week song first. Like the Months of the Year song, most of the kids mastered it last year, but loveto demonstrate their mastery. One child each day gets the honor of bringing down the next number of the day. I think it is a good idea to list the kids so everyone can get a turn. I found that the kids were often saying that they hadn't had a turn in a while and wanted one. With a list, you can be sure everyone gets their fair number of opportunities. In a few more weeks the calendat slide will shift to something more compact and the student putting the number of the day in place will be dropped, so give them all a chance now. Other skills worked on are day/date distinction; yesterday, today, and tomorrow; writing the date, etc.

 Direction Word Simon Says

This is a great way to drill the kids on multiple direction words at the same time. Initially, I leave the clues area uncovered, but as they progress, I begin to cover that area up with a black square. This game drills: north, south, east, and west; left and right; first, middle, and last; first, second, and third. The way it is played is the kids need to select their pointer tool and pick a shape that matches one of the home base images. If the students keep picking the same images, you may have to assign them so everyone has a different one. Then, just as in the real Simon Says game, you call out things for them to do such as, "Simon Says move to the north side of the first square." If you do not say Simon Says first they are not supposed to move. The kids love it when they get to be the caller. One thing that I don't do that the regular game does is make the student leave the game if they lose a round. They need the position word practice, so they stay in the game.

 

 Angles and Sides

Not as flashy as some of the slides, but this activity is not repeated over a long stretch of time, so I opted to put less time into it. LOL. We only had to discuss this slide one or two days for the kids to know the difference between angles and sides.

 

 Common 2-D Geometric Shapes

In this slide, I call out the shapes and the kids move their names to the shape I call out. THe kids had these shapes mastered already so we only did them one day.

 

 Less Common 2-D Geometric Shapes

On the classroom slide there is actually a 4th shape, an octagon. I don't know why the png didn't show it here. I call out the shape and the kids move their names to it. The kids remembered most of these shapes from last year. The way that I helped the kids remember these was to talk about how the pentagon looked like a house - a penthouse. The trapezoid we talked about it trapping the animals, the hexagon looked like a hexnut (bolt and screw), and the octagon had 8 sides like an octopus had eight legs. The inages were thanks to Jan Bret. She has a website where she makes crads for teachers and families to use with their kids. Look up the website and print these out if you want to have a copy for your kids to review off-line.

 

 Common 3-D Geometric Shapes

I call off the shapes and the kids move their names to the correct shape. I also have a stack of leables for the shapes that I use occassionally. First graders are pre-readers at this stage, so I don't use them often. I will likely use the labels more when I use them with the kids in coming years.

 

  2-D vs 3-D

I only used this slide a few days. I just wanted the kids to realize the terms and difference between 2-D and 3-D looking shpaes.

 What Number Comes Next

Introduction of the Counting On technique is in the next week or two. The ability to count on from any number is crucial to success with that set of addition facts. This reveal activity is designed to work on that skill. THe students move one colored number tile at a time to see what question is under it. The questions on this slide are in the form of "31, 32, 33, ___". They then move the tile to the answer block. Grading the student's work is quick because the colors form a pattern. This basic activity design is used periodically and the pattern changes so the students can not just memorize the color sequence.

 

 What Is Hidden Game

This is another variation to practice counting skills. Each of the kids had a color dot assigned to them. They typed into the chat box whet their number would be.

 

 

 

 Datagraph

On this slide, I introduced the kids to datagraphs. They each had a column assigned to them and they counted the number of jellybeans of each color and recorded the answer.

 

 Bar Graph

In this slide we discussed bar graphs. I quized the children's understanding by asking questions such as which pet was the most popular, least popular, how many kids voted for dog, etc.

 

 Pictographs

This slide was used to show the kids what a pictograph looks like. I aske dthe kids questions and they had to interpret the graph.