Remember last week we learned how to count by tens? If you missed the post you can see it here. After this excercise I caught Selena counting 5, 10, 520, (five twenty) so on up to one hundred. I went to my bin of bottle caps and had enough blue caps to make the numbers 1 – 9 and an extra five.
We started out by refreshing our memory on how to count by tens. Which Selena hadn’t forgotten one bit, she went right through counting by tens like she had been doing it forever.
We then added the blue bottle caps, so our number line looked like 1,1,2,2,3,3, so on to 100. I placed the extra 5 at the top of the line, and the 0 next to the one so we had our start 5, 10. I then showed Selena how she could move the 5 to make 15 and then move the 0 to make 20. It took her a few times of trying this new concept, but she caught on quicker then I thought she would.
She practiced this for about another 30 minutes, and is now pretty confident in herself that she can count by not only tens but now fives as well.
I am linking this to Joyful Learner’s Monday Math.
There are so many wonderful things you can do with lids.
ReplyDeleteI need to start saving them again.
Very neat way to help Selena see the pattern! You are a great teacher.
ReplyDeleteShe's really learning fast!
ReplyDeleteI love this idea. I must have missed your post about counting by 10s last week, but I just love how you're using the lids for this. I'm definitely going to start saving lids so we can do something similar.
ReplyDeleteI really like the way you did this. Very clever! It definitely worked for Selena!
ReplyDeleteI need to get collect bottle caps! :)
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