RESOURCES
Numeracy and Literacy
You will find the Literacy section underneath the Numeracy section.
You will find the Literacy section underneath the Numeracy section.
4 Card Solitaire
Here is a video example for playing 4 card solitaire. Remember that we are putting the cards ON TOP of the other ones in the 4 small piles, not fanning them down right now. Remember if you go to the deck it is 1, 2, 3, 4 cards and you go from left to right when you put them down. |
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Numeracy
www.aaamath.com/add.htm
Go to - Addition - Addition Facts - Work your way through [ from 0 to 9 + 9 ] - do "Practice" - once very confident you could try "Play".
As we focus on other concepts, I will insert the link connected to them; however a skill list is on the side bar of the site's pages and others could be tried at anytime. (Please note that some measurement units are imperial, but there are some exercises with metric units as well.)
Go to - Addition - then
Go to - Multiplication - then
Mulitplication Facts
- Then pick the fact(s) that you are going to work on
Calculator Game:
(Focussing on digits, numbers, place value)
Two teams (can be person playing person OR pairs playing pairs ...)
- Each team has a calculator. (Or, if you do not have calculators or as an extension can do it on paper, using pencil calculations down the page.)
- To start, we have begun with using a three-digit number. Once comfortable with that, students can start with a four digit number...
- Each team inputs a three-digit number into their calculator (without showing the other team).
- Then, similar to the card game "Go Fish", one team asks the other team if they have a particular number as one of their digits.
- If the other team has that number then they say that they do, tell what place it is in, and then tell the other person to add the value to their number and then they themselves subtract it from their number.
- Since the team did guess a number that the other team had, they get to guess again.
- If the team did not guess a number as one of the digits, then the other team gets to ask them.
- This continues until one team ends up with a zero in all of the places.
- If while playing the game, a team's number ends up have the same number as two different digits (ie. 644). The team may decide which place to let the other team know the "4" is in. They do NOT have to let them know that they have two of them.
For example.
Team One has Team Two has
345 (to start) 567 (to start)
"Do you have a 7?" "Yes, in the ones. You can add 7 to yours, I will take away 7." [ Number now is 574 ]
[ Number now 352]
"Do you have a 2?" "No, I do not. Do you have a 9?"
"No I do not. Do you have a 5?" " Yes, I have a 5 in the hundreds. You can add 500 to yours, I will take away 500." [ number now 74 ]
[ number now 852 ]
"Do you have a 1?" " No, I do not have a 1. Do you have an 8?"
"Yes, I have an 8 in the hundreds.
You can add 800 to yours, and
I will take away 800."
[ Number now is 54 ] [ number now is 874 ]
Literacy
Reading in the Round OR Read- to- Self Makes the Rounds
( There is a next step to this activity - stay tuned for the instructions to be written on this page, or ask you child - some already know the next step. )
Reading in the Round OR Read- to- Self Makes the Rounds
- Designate a time where everyone in the family, or a group of friends and relatives, sits down and each person reads his/her own just right book (beginner readers can read with an older child or an adult).
- Set a specific time that all will sustain and have the stamina to keep independently reading.
- After this time, each reader chooses their one favourite word or phrase from the passage that they have read.
- If someone is reading with a beginner reader, you and the child will read the same book, but each will pick out his/her own word/phrase.
- Each person should practise saying his/her word or phrase with expression.
- The expression used would be such that listeners would know whether the ending of the word or phrase would be punctuated with a period (.) , exclamation mark ( ! ), or a question mark ( ? ).
- Then all join together and sit in a circle, ready to read out loud, each word or phrase, using effective expression.
- The words or phrases should be read one after another. (Taking time to read the round again, after a first or second time practise, will help.)
- You will enjoy the end result - our class guarantees it!!
( There is a next step to this activity - stay tuned for the instructions to be written on this page, or ask you child - some already know the next step. )