Parent Newsletter: Tenth Week of School

Dear Parents,
   In our math lesson today we practiced counting to twenty. To begin the lesson I read the book, The Cheerios Counting Book 1 2 3. This book includes colorful illustrations of the popular cereal Cheerios to represent numbers. As I read the book  the students had their own Cheerios at their desk. for every number we discussed it and represented it using our cheerios. For example, we learned the the number eleven. We discussed that it is one group of ten plus one single. So altogether you have eleven Cheerios. At the end of the lesson I had each child practice counting to twenty. They had to place Cheerios on a string one by one and count all the way to twenty. Once each child completed this activity we made the strings of Cheerios into necklaces that the students could wear all day. The students practiced counting numbers while at the same time were able toi visually represent the number using Cheerios.
                                                                                  Sincerely,
                                                                                   Ms. Gammell