Could your busy animal-enthusiast benefit from practice with numbers? In this class we will have fun with math through games, stories, and songs focused around fun animal themes. This course is designed for kids who have not yet mastered either counting, number recognition, or adding up to ten. Our number stories and worksheets incorporate simple written equations, working with these small numbers in a concrete and practical way. 

This is the flexible-schedule version of the course with no live class meetings. Learners will WATCH the weekly lessons at their convenience, RESPOND singing that weeks' number song in a video if they feel comfortable, demonstrating their counting practice, and/or sharing their completed worksheet(s), and ENGAGE with the teacher and other learners through our weekly extention challenge. I respond to weekly learner-submitted videos with my personalized video feedback.

In each weekly pre-recorded lesson we: (1) begin with a numbers or song poem, (2) engage in a number story, (3) play a number game, and (4) sing a closing numbers. (See Sources for more information.)

Week 1 - Mice
Concepts practiced: Minus one subtraction within five, dividing portions evenly, counting and adding, number recognition
Extension challenge: Asynchronous tea party - Issue and accept challenges to share evenly a certain number of cookies between us.
Week 2 - Dogs
Concepts practiced: Counting, plus one addition to ten, addition to reach given total, number recognition
Extension challenge: Number ten scavenger hunt
Week 3 - Ducks
Concepts practiced: Minus one subtraction within five, plus one addition from five to ten, number recognition, forward and backward counting 1-10 
Extension challenge: I have, who has digit scavenger hunt.
Week 4 - Sheep
Concepts practiced: Counting, forming addition equations, ordering numbers and number recognition, forward and backward counting 1-10 
Extension challenge: Present us with an addition challenge and see if the other learners and I can solve it! Can you solve ours?

I will provide weekly worksheets to practice the number concepts further.