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.

Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert is a story about a child and her mother planting bulbs, seeds, and seedlings.  When spring comes the flowers grow into a beautiful rainbow.

How are rainbows formed?

Rainbows, like blooming flowers, are another sign of spring.   Flowers need rain to grow. It rains a lot in the spring.

Rainbows are formed when light shines through water like when the sun shines through the rain. This light is bent and separated into all of the amazing colors that you see.

Rainbows normally appear from the rain, but they can happen wherever light is being bent inside of water droplets. Rainbows can be seen in mist, fog, spray, and dew.

Rainbows are made up of all seven colors that come from light. These colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

A great way to remember these colors is the think of the acronym:  ROY G BIV.

Somewhere over the Rainbow

Maybe you can try this at home! All you need is paper towel, markers, water and a casserole dish or large bowl (preferably clear or white).

Enjoy the rainbow while in the bowl, it doesn’t survive well when you try to remove it from the water!

Here are some other rainbows that the children made: