Category: Learning

Can you make your own rainbow?

Review counting backward from 10 using fingers.

Lesson 5:

I can subtract word problems. (I can draw pictures to illustrate the story and write an equation).

Practice:

Can you tell your grown-up the number sentence for each picture? Remember: the big number comes first. (Click on the picture and it will enlarge).

Lesson 6:

I can subtract fluently within 5. (I can visualize the problem to help me subtract in my head.)

Practice:

Close your eyes.  Imagine there are 5 circles.  Take 1 circle away.  How many circles are left?

Close your eyes.  Imagine there are 4 squares.  Take away 2 squares.  How many squares are left?

Close your eyes.  Imagine there are 3 stars.  Take away 2 stars.  How many stars are left?

Complete the practice pages using the subtraction strategy (fingers, objects, pictures) that you find the easiest.  Try to think of the answer in your head first.

Complete the practice pages in the protected post.