Below you will find some fun holiday-themed math fact fluency (and a few other skills) games to play at home over Holiday break. All games will need to be printed, and most just require a dice and some playing pieces (you could use coins, for example) to play.
Today we read "One Snowy Night." In this book, Little Hedgehog would be asleep at Christmas, but the cold wind wakes him up. Then out of the blue comes a gift from Father Christmas–a red woolly hat, just the perfect size, except for his pesky quills. When the hat is all stretched out, Little Hedgehog rewraps it and leaves it on Rabbit's doorstep. He in turn gives it to Badger, who then passes it on to Fox. Heading out one evening, he comes across poor Little Hedgehog, unconscious in the snow. Fox wraps him in the hat and takes him to Rabbit's house, where Rabbit and Badger are having dinner. Little Hedgehog wakes up long enough to admire his nice warm blanket, and the other animals decide that the hat is perfect for him. Throughout the story, each character doesn't necessarily want or like the hat they are given as a gift, but each animal shows their gratitude anyways. We brainstormed some ways we can show gratitude for anything we are given. We talked about how the thought behind gift-giving is what's important. Some things we can say when we are given a gift are:
We should always show gratitude! Today we learned a new strategy for adding two digit numbers. It is called the splitting strategy. Some students had already begun to think this way...they just didn’t know the strategy they were using has a name! It’s called the splitting strategy because first you split each addened into tens and ones. Then you add the ones from each addened and the tens from each addened. Then you put the ones and tens back together to find your sum. Students worked in partnerships to identify the topic, main idea, and supporting details of a nonfiction text. One of the goals for second grade is that students develop a solid sense of our number system. Several significant mathematical concepts are central to a strong number sense. First, the concept of "counting" should not be taken for granted. Counting by 10's, for example, is helpful for developing the understanding that 2 groups of 10 is 20. Such number pattern and sequences lead to the development and understanding of place value, a second critical mathematical concept. We continue to practice using a number line, as it promotes creative solution strategies and intuitive reasoning. Yesterday we did an activity called "Hit the Target." Students used "skip-jumps" of 1, 5, and 10 to reach a given target on the number line. The goal of the activity was to arrive at the intended target by using as fewest skip-jumps as possible. This sometimes required students to subtract, the first time we have done so on an open number line! The concept of "skip-jumping" was introduced through learning about the history of the long-jump and the triple jump. We even got to try jumping on a "number line" in class! Today a new workplace game was introduced called Star Power. This is a great game that reinforces skip counting and breaking numbers apart to get to "friendly numbers" (multiples of 10). We finished unit 2 yesterday. We will start unit 3 on Wednesday. Check out the newsletter that went home today for more information about this new unit. Today we played a few games to practice our addition and subtraction facts. |
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