In the story Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream, Amanda is a child who loves to count anything and everything. She counts windows, books on a library shelf, cookies on a trays, tiles on a counter top and so much more. But sometimes Amanda can't count fast enough. Her teacher tries to persuade her that multiplying will help but Amanda is not convinced. We read her book this morning stopping to count with Amanda and learned that multiplication is a helpful tool. The situations in the story allowed for the discussion about repeated addition, skip counting, and the essential idea of an array. We learned to represent multiplication through the use of any array. An array is made of columns and rows and is a visual tool we can all use.
These are my favorite days because we also got to read the book Frog Belly Rat Bone as we continue to talk about picture words that authors write for us to visualize in the readers head. It's a fun story about a boy in cement land who is looking for treasure. It was great fun to draw all the things he was doing. Ask your child about visualization.
Swim forms due please.
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