Monday, March 20, 2006
Note to Parents
Hello Parents of my Grade One Students!
This is a post to ensure that you and your child are getting the most from your blog experience. My intentions by creating this blog is to help you, help your child. I know that in this busy day and age we sometimes forget the imp
ortance of getting involved and discussing eachother's lives. I want this blog to be a tool that you can use to encourage your child to participate and exceed their expectations as a student. The extra drill and practice sites are an excellent way to get involved with your child's learning. Please become actively involved with your child's school life, you are a role model in every sense of the word. Help me, help your child succeed!!
Below I have listed some assumptions of how children acquire knowledge:
1 - Children are natural problem solvers, they develop their own ways to solve problems.
2 - Children are active learners who construct mathematical knowledge through concrete activities.
3 - Children learn best when they focus on meaningful tasks, and solve problems connected to their own personal knowledge.
4 - Children acquire understanding when mathematical ideas occur in a variety of environmental situations.
5 - Children learn as they play with objects and materials, with people, with ideas and thoughts. Through play they explore, experience, discover, gain information and construct knowledge.
6 - Children learn to apply mathematical procedures such as algorithms through trying to solve problems rather than by doing exercises alone.
7 - Children should be exposed to "messy" problems involving real-life numerical information rather than easy calculated answers.
8 - Children are capable of posing as well as solving problems, and that problem posing is key to dertermine the level of student understanding.
9 - Children need to learn to distinguish between situations requiring exact answers and those in which estimates are desirable.
10 - Children should be presented with conventions and symbols after they have had ample experiences with the underlying actions and processes: sharing, taking away, comparing and so on.
11 - Children benefit greatly from being encouraged to explain, discuss and engage in mathematical talk.
12 - Children develop and refine understanding and the ability to reason and communicate mathematically as they interact with and share ideas with peers.
13 - Children are unique individuals who develop and learn different ways and at different rates.
14 - Children should be encouraged to use natural language as well as technical terms to describe, refine, and record mathematical ideas and relationships.
15 - Children can review and consolidate old mathematical learning while they are investigating new mathematical ideas.
16 - Children should be encouraged to collect and use their own data to create and solve problems.
(Interactions, Teacher's Resource Binder)
This is a post to ensure that you and your child are getting the most from your blog experience. My intentions by creating this blog is to help you, help your child. I know that in this busy day and age we sometimes forget the imp
ortance of getting involved and discussing eachother's lives. I want this blog to be a tool that you can use to encourage your child to participate and exceed their expectations as a student. The extra drill and practice sites are an excellent way to get involved with your child's learning. Please become actively involved with your child's school life, you are a role model in every sense of the word. Help me, help your child succeed!! Below I have listed some assumptions of how children acquire knowledge:
1 - Children are natural problem solvers, they develop their own ways to solve problems.
2 - Children are active learners who construct mathematical knowledge through concrete activities.
3 - Children learn best when they focus on meaningful tasks, and solve problems connected to their own personal knowledge.
4 - Children acquire understanding when mathematical ideas occur in a variety of environmental situations.
5 - Children learn as they play with objects and materials, with people, with ideas and thoughts. Through play they explore, experience, discover, gain information and construct knowledge.
6 - Children learn to apply mathematical procedures such as algorithms through trying to solve problems rather than by doing exercises alone.
7 - Children should be exposed to "messy" problems involving real-life numerical information rather than easy calculated answers.
8 - Children are capable of posing as well as solving problems, and that problem posing is key to dertermine the level of student understanding.
9 - Children need to learn to distinguish between situations requiring exact answers and those in which estimates are desirable.
10 - Children should be presented with conventions and symbols after they have had ample experiences with the underlying actions and processes: sharing, taking away, comparing and so on.
11 - Children benefit greatly from being encouraged to explain, discuss and engage in mathematical talk.
12 - Children develop and refine understanding and the ability to reason and communicate mathematically as they interact with and share ideas with peers.
13 - Children are unique individuals who develop and learn different ways and at different rates.
14 - Children should be encouraged to use natural language as well as technical terms to describe, refine, and record mathematical ideas and relationships.
15 - Children can review and consolidate old mathematical learning while they are investigating new mathematical ideas.
16 - Children should be encouraged to collect and use their own data to create and solve problems.
(Interactions, Teacher's Resource Binder)
I'm sure that you may find these helpful in learning how your child learns.
Miss Herridge# posted by Melissa Herridge @ 11:17 AM 
