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Incoming Prep II

Resources:
Online Manipulatives - subscribe and she will send you the password for her site.
If You Were a Minus Sign story 
Place Value Song
Addition Laser Alien Game
Subtraction Slime Laser Game
Learn and Sort Coins

Helpful materials to have accessible:  Analog clock, centimeter/inch ruler

Real world topics to discus:  
  • Quantifying time in conversation for example "We are leaving in five minutes." "We went to the zoo last week."  "We got our dog three years ago."  Using a calendar to track time.  
  • Money:  talking about coins, how they look different; coin names
  • Comparison language in conversation: older vs younger, longer vs shorter, more vs less
  • Cooking
  • Temperature
  • Shapes (two and three dimensional)
  • Sharing things equally

Games: Card and board games!  Acing Math (Games to play with a standard deck of cards), ​(Go fish, Old Maid, Top-It (war), dominoes, Candy Land, Connect Four, Uno, Sorry)

Websites and Games: They are divided into grade levels.
  • Gregtangmath.com
  • illuminations.nctm.org
  • iXL
  • Khan Academy (leveled practice by concept)
  • Arithmetic Four - two player game to practice facts
  • Free Rice
  • Mathgametime.com
  • Thinking Blocks
  • ABCya
  • Xtramath
  • Arcademic Skillbuilders

Apps:
  • Endless 1, 2, 3
  • Find sums
  • PBS Kids games
  • Mathtango
  • Originator Inc.
  • Math Dual
  • 10 Frame Fill
  • Make 10 +
  • The Math Learning Center
  • The Subitize Tree

Articles:
https://offspring.lifehacker.com/create-a-noticing-wall-for-your-kid-1834930062
Number Grid - Incoming Prep II students can use this for number recognition, one more or one less.  It will be used throughout the year to find patterns. Aids in building number sense and used in addition and subtraction until the formal algorithms are introduced in second grade.
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Elmwood Franklin School
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(716) 877-5035
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