Fun with Language and Numbers Day 5

*We discussed the adding strategy "nearly doubles". If you know your doubles then it can make adding questions like 6+7 easier because you can think of it as double 6 plus 1. Another example is 9+8 is double eight plus 1. Much easier than "counting on"!

*We read a new play today called "The Giant Rutabaga". It was exciting to notice that right off the bat the kids were using expression in their reading. We discussed and used the reading strategy "chunking it". This is when you read the syllables of a word rather than trying to take the whole word in at once.

*Today's math game was Subtraction Luck. Its just like Addition Luck except that each player finds the difference of the two cards they turn over and the player with the smallest difference wins that round of 4 cards.