An essential part of our math program is a skill building program called Number Corner. Number Corner has five key components: calendar, days in school, number line, collection, and computational fluency. These components are similar each month, but change slightly, reinforcing and extending skills we are working on.  

For the calendar, each day has a marker that follows a pattern. In September this pattern is focused on shapes, including circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles. The number of days we have been in school is tracked by adding written numbers to an ever growing number line as well as adding links to chains in sets of 10 and adding dots to 10 frames, both of which give us an opportunity to explore place value and see numbers as groups of 10 and some more. Each month features a collection of some kind that serves as a springboard for representing and analyzing data. This month we collected cubes each day and found the totals for each week. We have also been working on representing quantities to 5 on five frames and with our fingers, and practicing counting from 1 to 10 and back again.