Today in your child's orange folder is an informational sheet about number sense and ways to help develop this along with a packet of math games that I have collected from various resources. They vary in level of difficulty and skills, but hopefully there is at least one that will appeal to everyone.  We have played Five Frame Fun and Build a City in class and your child should know each of these.   If your children are like my son, they may enthusiastically play the games at school, but prefer not to play them at home- that's fine!  I'm sending them along as an option, but not something that has to be done.

Katie Babic, our guidance counselor has been meeting with all of the boys and all of the girls on alternate Thursdays to work on friendship skills.  Each group has gone once and both loved it.  While on group is with Katie I have the opportunity to do similar work with the children who remain in the classroom.  Coincidentally both groups worked on friendship skills today by building.  The boys who were with me worked in 3 groups of 3.  Each team had the same 30 blocks to create a structure.   When they were finished we were struck by how different each structure was, even though each group used exactly the same blocks.  The  7 girls worked as a whole group building a tower with Katie.

It is getting chilly and our playground is notoriously windy.  Please make sure your child come with good clothing for recess.  At this point everyone should come with a jacket- we can always remove them if it is too warm.  Thank you for your help with this!