NOTE:  Class must have a minimum of 3 enrolled.  This class will continue through the end of May.  It works well for a math curriculum for Kindergarten.  It also works for a struggling first grader or advanced pre-schooler.  

Calling all dinosaur friends!  Join me and bring your dinosaur friends for this ongoing year-long dinosaur-themed math class 2 times a week that will take you on an exciting dinosaur math adventure.   In this exciting class, students will be taken to the Land of Dinosaurs each day to learn fun facts about dinosaurs from our dinosaur puppet, Digits.   Many forms of learning strategies will be implemented to keep the interest and learning fun.  I also use NearPod to review what has been taught.  This allows the student to be interactive with the online activities that I have created.  

We will be going on a dinosaur adventure to learn numbers (standard and word forms), counting, colors (implemented into the activities), shapes, sizes,  addition facts, subtraction facts, reading number sentences, greater than/less than, word problems, patterns, picture graphs, bar graphs, fractions, telling the time, and more.  Class time will be packed with activities.  Some examples of the teaching strategies used are singing songs, looking at dinosaur books, crafts, playing interactive games both online and physically, learning interesting facts about dinosaurs, dinosaur fossil digs, being a paleontologist as we measure dinosaur bones, and interacting with each other as we solve math problems. In each class, there will be visually appealing handouts, foldable activities, dinosaur online games, (created by me), math dinosaur crafts, use of manipulatives that can be found around the house, and just too much to mention it all here. You will have to enroll to see all the exciting activities we will be doing. We will be coloring, cutting, and solving our way through our dinosaur adventures.  I will be using a colorful slide presentation to teach the objectives.  Whiteboard use is encouraged during the lesson so they can write the answers and show them in class.  This way, students will stay continually engaged.

Each week we will focus on and review the math standards listed below. Students may join the class at any time since the concepts will be reviewed continuously. I will introduce a new topic on the first day and then review it on the second day.  This allows them to get a better grasp of the math topic before moving on.  With the class meeting 5 days a week, the students will have a good solid understanding of the objectives by the week's end. The objectives may change slightly so keep checking back. 
 
The following is an outline for the  weeks

Week of 10/15
Mama Dinosaurs and Their Nest of Eggs
-Writing and recognizing numbers from 0 to 9
-Matching the standard numbers to the word numbers
-Counting 0-10 forwards and backwards.

Week of 10/22
-Simple word problems using numbers 0-9 to aid in counting on
-Simple addition sentences using the numbers 0-9. -use objects to count
-Number Order - 0-9 (What number comes next?  What number does not belong?)

Week of 10/29 
-Simple subtraction sentences - use objects to count
-Creating their own problems
-Writing and recognizing numbers from 10-20 
-Counting objects from 10-20 (will go to 30 if students can count to 30)

Week of 11/5
-Counting forward and backward 0-20 (possibly 30)
-Numbers that come before and after a given number

Week of 11/12
-Dinosaur number games 
-Identify ><= - Dinosaur Chomp
Be a Paleontologist 
-Identify ><= (Review and play Kahoot)
-Simple measurements using numbers from 0-30

Week of 11/19
 Dinosaur Dig Excavation Site 
-Begin Skip Counting -  2s
-Counting by 2s practice

Week of 12/3
Help at a dinosaur museum by putting together skeletons of dinosaurs.
-counting by 5s and 10s 

Week of 12/10
 Shop at the Dinosaur Museum Gift Shop Theme
-coin identification - penny, nickel, dime, and a quarter

Week of 12/17
Dinosaur Shape Birthday Party Theme
-Identify and count the sides and angles
-Identify and compare shapes (2-D)
-Match shapes and outlines
-Cut and glue shapes art activity

Week of 1/6
A Day in the Life of a Dinosaur Theme
-Differentiating between digital and analog clocks and reading the time-identifying time to the hour and half hour
-Match times to activities
-writing time in an analog and digital clock

Week of 1/13
A Year in the Life of a Dinosaur Theme
-identify a thermometer, the purpose, and parts
-identify the temperature both in Fahrenheit and in Celcius
-seasons
-writing temperatures
-filling in a thermometer matching the given temperature
-matching temperatures to pictures

Week of 1/20
Dinosaur Friends at the Candy Store (Graphing)
-Graphing with Bar Graphs and Picture Graphs
-Gathering Data-Gathering Data

Week of 1/27
Dinosaur Fractions - Pizza Bake Challenge
-recognizing 1 whole, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4

Week of 2/3
Shopping at Super Dino World
- 3-D shapes = pyramid, sphere, cone, 
-Draw shapes
-Identify and count the sides 
-Identify and compare shapes (3-D)

Week of 2/10
-Continue with 3D shapes = cylinder, cube, rectangular prism (does not build from last week)
-Match words to shapes and outlines
-Patterns with shapes

Week of 2/17
Digits Writes a Math Story Book and Needs Help
-Story Problems Review using addition and subtraction facts.
-Students complete a book with Digits the Puppet
-solve math facts - addition and subtraction of 2 and 3 one-digit numbers
-solve story problems 
-create story problems
-write number sentences

Week of 2/24
The Dinosaur Olympic Games 
-ordinal numbers 1st-10th
- NearPod Lesson activities

Week of 3/1
Review Weeks 1-10 topics

TBA