Baxter's Bulletin
Forest View & Forest Lake Elementary
January 2016
Happy New Year and Welcome Back to School!
Welcome back to school as we begin a new year. I hope you enjoyed a relaxing break with family and friends. Time always seems to go by too quickly.
You are receiving this newsletter because I am your child's math teacher during TARGET Time. Over the past year, I have been playing with the features of an online newsletter offered on smore.com and I am excited to share with you my first newsletter. In effort to communicate more clearly about what students are learning during TARGET Time for math, I will be emailing a monthly newsletter in addition to the bi-weekly Goal Sheets you have already been receiving. Please keep in mind that the information is intended for all of my students in grades K-4. Overall, my hope is to spread more information about math education and the resources available to families. Please take a moment to complete the Google Form at the end of the newsletter to let me know if this type of newsletter is helpful to you.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at any time if you have general questions or specific concerns regarding your child's progress in math this year. I can be reached by phone or email. I am also available before or after school if you would prefer to talk in person.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Elizabeth Baxter
"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence"
~Vince Lombardi
Kindergarten
The Big Number Song Counts to 100
Student Examples
Dot Stamper Activity
Counting up to 10 and back to 0
Kindergarten Counting Homework
January Counting Homework
December Counting Homework
November Counting Homework
First Grade
Skip Counting by 10, 5, and 2
Grade 1 Counting Homework
Grade 1 January Counting Homework
Grade 1 December Counting Homework
Grade 1 November Counting Homework
Second Grade
Tens Partners, Doubles Facts, and Doubles +1 Facts
Tens Partners
Doubles Flashcard 6 + 6
Doubles +1 Flashcard 6 + 7
Third Grade
Subtraction Strategies
Comparison Strategy
Does it Add up?
Number Line Subtraction Strategy
* Think about tens partners and stop at ten
* Use place value to add the part greater than 10
* Add up the parts to find the difference
Fourth Grade
Multiplication and Division by 2
We read the multiplication symbol X as "groups of" instead of just "times" because this helps us to visualize quantities. Students have been using pennies, cubes, and ten frames to build groups of 2. This week we will be reading the book Two of Everything about a magic pot that doubles everything that fall into it.
Flashcards
Free Custom Printable Flashcard Creator
This is the site I use to print the flashcards that I send home for additional practice.
http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/CustomFlashcardCreator.html