Years ago, we made word-creation trays to support the newly adopted literacy program, UFLI. Built by teen volunteers, the trays took a lot of effort and even though we followed the online instructions provided by the University of Florida, our trays were, how shall we say it, simply functional. Now that UFLI has been in […]
Our kindergarteners can now earn tickets when they complete assignments both in class and at home. These tickets can then be used to shop for (mostly educational) items. Ranging in price from two to thirty tickets, children have the option to save for more expensive items. We hope that earning shopping tickets will inspire every
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These “base ten blocks” help our kindergarteners learn place value. The children can manipulate the proportionally correct blocks to represent a two-digit number and visualize how many tens and ones are in a given group. These blocks help our young students to understand the relationship between the different columns on a place value grid –
Showing kindergarteners how to take care of things is an important classroom lesson. That is why it is terrific our recent grant not only provided the math answer boards but also the storage racks. We thank the William & Helen Thomas Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee for the complete set-up!
Thanks to a grant by the William & Helen Thomas Charitable Trust, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee, all kindergarteners can now get a handle on math, literally! The ten-frame answer boards enable children to think of numbers in terms of their relationship to ten. Mental addition/subtraction calculations become more automatic. For example, “There’s eight because
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Our kiddos now have a second exciting online math program! Like Khan Academy Kids, Mathseeds is a highly interactive and personalized learning journey to build math skills at each child’s own pace. Once a child completes the Lil’ Mathematician level 2 in Khan Academy Kids, Mathseeds provides more addition and subtraction practice. This learning software
Finding all the ways to decompose a number is much more fun and memorable with burger buns and pickle buttons! The activity starts by placing pickle buttons in a closed bun (whole number). Then, the children open the bun and move pickles from side to side (parts) recording all the possible combinations.
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Thanks to the Trustees of the Glenn W. Bailey Foundation for supporting our Lil’ Mathematician program. All three program areas – Tutoring, Teaching Tools, and Kid-Sized Materials – will be improved with the funds we received from their substantial grant. We don’t only want the children to have a solid math foundation; we want them
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More than 10,000 assignments have been completed by kindergarteners and first graders in our after-school program! And, the school year is not quite half over! In addition to in-school tutoring, the young students take iPads home to complete Khan Academy Kids lessons that have been assigned to them. The iPads have cellular internet and, therefore,
“David” started first grade not knowing all the letters of the alphabet. He was receiving all F-grades on reading comprehension. He took an iPad home every night and completed his assigned lessons. He quickly advanced through the kindergarten and first-grade learning paths. His classroom teacher reports he scored 100% on his latest reading comprehension test.
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