As the weather warms up, please remember to check the dress code on our website. It's been a few months, your child may have grown!
Also, please remember to send your child in layers - and check for them to come back home. The lost and found bins are starting to pile up! If you have never inspected nature with your child, google "Fibonacci" and see how mathematics is all over the world - there are even patterns in nature! The Upper School is in need of computers...AND our walls are in need of some personality!
For the low cost of $20 per square, students can purchase a square and paint a school appropriate picture of their choice in that one foot square. For $15, the student can paint an academic picture. To save money, students can join up to share the cost of a square and paint it together. See Ms. Laird for more details or to purchase a square. Let's leave our mark! Being involved can be a challenge. Parents are busy juggling work, parenting, and all the little incidentals that come along the way. Even with all that, I hear a lot of parents saying that they wish that they could do more for their school.
In the above photograph, some of our PCA teachers are working hard to better their professional practice.
As a parent, when you learn something new, let your child see your love of learning and excitement with a new topic! It helps children see that we never stop learning! If you child is having trouble memorizing her facts, it sometimes helps to make an array and practice with something physical. Each striped column above represents a group of fours. As the child built the array, we continued to add on by fours, say each out loud. (I have four. Now I have four, eight. Now I have four, eight, twelve. Etc...)
You can do this at home with blocks, pennies, or whatever you have handy! As your child practices, it offers a stress-free path to count on to find the next number if she forgets. Creating a diagram is another step to help your child memorize the order seeing it over again. Doing activities like the above at home with your child will only take a few minutes, but can reinforce the important basic facts that form the foundation for the math that comes next. Happy Valentine's Day! While some students prefer a traditional chair and desk, if a student wants to sit on a beanbag chair, why not let him? The student above has everything that he needs to do his math problem - a comfy seat, his computer, a hard surface to rest his paper on, a pencil, and even a hat for Crazy Hat day...
Looks like he is working hard! If your child needs practice with her facts, but doesn't enjoy flashcards and wants a break from MobyMax...try adding numbers to a beloved game!
In the photograph above, a normal Connect-4 game has been converted into a math drill. We wrote a number on every game piece (being careful to put the same number on both sides) and simply added a rule. As you take your turn, say a math fact that uses the number on your piece and the number on an adjacent piece. A first grader playing a yellow 8 on top of a red 6 would say, "8 + 6 = 14". A third grader would say "8 x 6 = 48" and depending on what he is working on, a sixth grader might say "8 and 6 have a least common multiple of 24". Try it at home! As you look ahead to a break in the routine this Holiday... consider adding math discussions to your quality time with your child.
Some suggestions
Happy Holidays!
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In addition to all of the resources provided by your math teacher, you can always log onto MobyMax.Com at home! I recommend the first three apps on the home screen for students in grades K - 2 and the first two apps on the home screen for students in grades 3 - 8.
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Mrs. SilcoxWelcome! I am the Math Specialist at Providence Creek Academy Archives
May 2018
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