Students will delve deeply into number sense in a hands-on way using physical or printable Montessori manipulatives, creating a firm mathematical foundation for numbers 1-20.  Students who understand math learn to love math, and I want my 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, skip counting, patterns, fractions, telling time to the hour, money, data and graphing, probability, geometry, and measurement.  Students need to have the actual manipulatives with them (or a printable version) as we work through these 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 for a preschool plus class or a beginner kindergarten math class.  Each week of class is unique and students may stay all year or come in for the week they need.  
 
Class Restarts in Fall:

September:
Exploring with Montessori beads 1-9
Building a bead stair
Counting within 10

October:
Using a ten frame
Fact families within 10
Adding on ten frame
Count sets of pennies

November:
Explore with 2D geometry shapes and lines
Count by 5s and count sets of nickels

December:
Continue reviewing all previous content
Explore with fraction circles

January:
Continue reviewing all previous content
Begin adding with Montessori beads 
Begin counting sets of pennies and nickels

February:
Continue reviewing all previous content
Explore with 3D geometrical forms
Begin adding on a ten frame

March:
Continue reviewing all previous content
Explore with telling time
Explore with teen numbers with seguin boards 

April:
Continue reviewing all previous content
Explore adding numbers using a 20 frame

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

Specific plans for the first 4 weeks:

Week of August 31st:
Explore numbers 1-9 with Montessori beads

September 7th:
Building a bead stair

Week of September 14th:
Fact families within 5

Week of September 21st:
More fact families with story problems