**For a limited time, please try this class for half off of your first week using the code HANDSONLEVELA18.  We would love to meet your learner! ** 

Hands-on learning=Meaningful learning.  This class helps students dive deeply into number sense and beyond in a hands-on way using physical or printable Montessori manipulatives, creating a firm mathematical foundation from numbers 1 to 999.  

Students who truly understand and master math concepts learn to love math, and we want our students to experience math in a hands-on way where they know they can try new things, make mistakes, and learn from them.  

Each class begins with a routine-oriented calendar time to help build number fluency, confidence, and class relationships.   Fun games, songs, and mathematical conversations help engage students and give them a natural way to apply concepts.  

We work with place value, addition and subtraction with and without regrouping (static and dynamic addition), skip counting, patterns, fractions, telling time, money, data and graphing, probability, basic multiplication, geometry, and measurement.  Every lesson and activity is planned to help students understand and apply what they are learning in a hands-on way!  We play games and frequently review so that we are constantly learning new skills, while also building mastery of older skills.

Our goal is for your child to learn math to apply math concepts in many ways, while also having fun!  

Students need to have the actual manipulatives with them (or a provided printable version) as we work through lessons together.  There is a second camera used in class to show the teacher's table so that the students are guided through problems step by step, working toward independence.  This class can be used as review of first grade math or for a first or second grade math class.  Each week of class is unique and students may stay all year or come in for the week they need.  

This schedule may be adapted to meet learner needs:

End of August/September:
Exploring with Montessori beads 1-9
Building a bead stair
Counting and adding within 10
Using a ten frame
Fact families within 10
Comparing numbers within 10
Subitizing numbers within 10
Adding and subtracting on ten frame
Count sets of pennies and nickels
Exploring with patterns 

October: 
Exploring geometry with shapes, lines, and symmetry
Exploring with teen numbers
Using number cards to build teen numbers
Using Montessori beads to build teen numbers
Counting by 10s and count sets of dimes
Continue working with facts within 10

November:
Continue reviewing previous content
Add and subtract to 20 using beads, counters, and a 20 frame
Use rulers to measure to the nearest inch
Count by 5s and count sets of nickels

December:
Continue reviewing all previous content
Begin building larger numbers with Montessori beads
Explore with fractions
Count by 2s 

January:
Continue reviewing all previous content
Begin adding and subtracting numbers with static addition
Begin counting sets of mixed coins

February:
Continue reviewing all previous content
Begin adding with dynamic addition (regrouping)
Begin subtracting with dynamic subtraction 
Use fractions to measure more accurately
Explore with geometrical shapes, lines, and angles

March:
Continue reviewing all previous content
Explore with telling time
Continue with geometry

April:
Continue reviewing all previous content
Explore multiplication as repeated sets of Montessori beads 
Explore multiplication in real-life

May:
Continue reviewing all previous content
Explore with surveys, data, graphing, and probability

The summer review version of this class meets 1 day a week starting in mid-May.  https://outschool.com/classes/summer-review-hands-on-montessori-inspired-math-level-a-for-kindergarten1st-UhOgrldk?usid=6msWnIQO&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_activity_link

Most students either move on to Level B (https://outschool.com/classes/hands-on-montessori-inspired-advanced-math-level-b-2x-a-week-with-manipulatives-fmbkSDsB?usid=6msWnIQO&signup=true&utm_campaign=share_activity_link) or restart Level A, depending on progress.  The class restarts in late August. 


Class Policies:
-All students need to have either printable or physical versions of the manipulatives needed for class to fully participate.
-I prefer videos on and students are often able to tilt their screens to show what they are working on at their tables.
-I prefer students stay unmuted to help with participation, but sometimes, due to background noise or static from a connection, I may need to mute students.  
-I am happy to share recordings for missed classes.  
-The students and I try very hard to create a supportive and respectful learning community.  Please be kind with your classmates.

Specific plans for the first 4 weeks:

Week of August 31st:
Explore numbers 1-9 with Montessori beads
Explore numbers 1-9 on a 10 frame

September 7th:
Building a bead stair
Counting and adding within 10 using a 10 frame

Week of September 14th:
Fact families within 10
Counting and adding within 10 using Montessori beads

Week of September 21st:
Counting sets of pennies
Solving addition and subtraction story problems on a 10 frame