Numbe
er Cornerr Grade 1 Advice for
f Novem
mber
By Dennis Adams, Curriculum
C
Specialist
S
I hope yo
ou find the filled-in Numb
ber Corner Planner
P
for N
November usseful. It’s avvailable to
download
d for free at http://mathle
earningcente
er.org/resou rces/materia
als/grade-on
ne. Scroll about
halfway down
d
the pa
age to find all of the planners for the year. If you’’re not familiiar with this tool,
I have taken the Tea
achers Guide
e and tried to
o weave a ba
alanced app
proach to mo
onth, including
dent Book pa
ages, blacklines, Intervie
ew, and morre.
Number Corner Stud
e two choice
es for Novem
mber calend
dar markers
s. You can d
download the
e Alternate
You have
Calendarr Markers C3
3, 2-D Shap
pes Around Us, for free , and print th
hem on a co
olor printer or
purchase
e a set for the year. Go to
t http://math
hlearningcen
nter.org/storre/product-66
665.htm.
(To down
nload and prrint them at no
n cost, scro
oll to the botttom of the p
product page
e listed abovve.)
When I made
m
the No
ovember Qu
uilt Calenda
ar Pieces ass outlined in tthe Teacherrs Guide, I
decided that
t
I wanted
d something
g a little more
e challenging
g than an AB
BAB pattern
n, so I chang
ged
the colorr scheme a bit
b and made
e 5 black with yellow borrders, 10 red
d with blue b
borders and 15
blue with
h red borders
s. You can have
h
studentts make the prescribed rred and blue
e pieces, the
en
work with
h them to choose a patte
ern togetherr, such as AB
BB-ABB, AB
BABB-ABABB, ABBB-AB
BBB,
etc. The quilt blocks from the bla
ackline are only
o
4" squarre, so I sugg
gest you mou
unt them on a 5"
backgrou
und color.
The Mond
day's Money
y Daily Challlenges are straightforw
ward,
but when you
y get to Tu
uesday Cha
allenge 1, do
on't overlookk
pages 135
5-136 in the T
Teachers Guide, remind
ding you to a
also
do the tem
mperature evvery Tuesda
ay and tally several time
es in
addition to
o the time ch
hallenges. Popsicle stickks, tally cards,
and drawin
ng lines are all necessarry to keep th
he kids from
laying dow
wn five stickss or marks, then crossing
g them. We
chanted, "O
One, two, th
hree, four, fivve goes dow
wn the slide.""
Wednesday's Workout Challenges: The first and second workouts typify the Bridges
approach in that the teacher is not to indicate there is a “best” method! Working in pairs, ask
everyone to “Lay out 32 cubes”. Walk the kids around and have them look at the three tens and
two single cubes, then children with piles of 32 loose cubes, and maybe even some with seven
groups of fives and two singles.
Discuss, discuss, discuss! If this approach is new to you, review the final paragraph on page
144. Even after looking at others using tens and ones, some children will persist in counting the
cubes out one-by-one in a big pile. If you send the message that so-and-so who put out three
10's and two 1's has the best method, you send a message to some children that their way is
wrong, yet they don’t understand why.
Thursday's Thinking is very interesting this month. I vividly remember the children choosing
which side they were going to sit on, the side for the 5's or the other for the 10's. When you get
to the fourth week, you'll be surprised at which spinner many may still believe gives the fairest
result. Many students will choose the first spinner, even though they have seen that the third
spinner is the closest to being fair. Avoid trying to convince them.
Friday's Figuring: Here is a chart I've constructed to let you know how and when components
are introduced in Friday's Figuring throughout the year.
1st Grade Friday's Figuring Components by Month
calendar calendar ten
hundreds unifix see the assessment
coins
grid
markers frames
frames 10's & 1's facts
sheet
August/September
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October
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November
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December
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January
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February
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March
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April
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May/June
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At the end
d of Novemb
ber
here are tthe equation
ns
the childre
en generate
ed on
the 56th day of school,
with me re
ecording the
em.
This was a “breakthro
ough
day” when one student
noticed fo
or the first tim
me
there are 25 in each
quadrant of the 100 g
grid
chart.