Update daily

Hi all,
I've been an infrequent updater and that was not my initial intent. Now that Back To School is over and things are settling into place I want to update nightly even if it's a small update.

First, thank you again, to my awesome parents/grandparents for chipping in. The books are folded, pages are sorted, and Monday folders are under control. I don't know why I found it so hard to ask for help in the past... You should have seen the first 3 little readers in this past Monday folder. What I'm noticing for some of our students is that they want to guess at the word...totally normal at this stage. Tell them it's okay to be sounding out loud the sounds and then putting the word together. I have to say this to them in class also.

We've started adding in class with our Excel Math sheets. Talk to them about "counting up". For example, if the problem is 2 + 3 they may want to count 2 fingers on one hand and then count 3 on the other and then count them together. We teach them to count up which means "which is your biggest number...3...okay just count up 2 more from 3...hence the term counting up. I'm also a big user of number lines and how when we add our number gets farther away from 0 and when we subtract our number gets closer to 0.

Well that's all for now. Our book orders should be in soon and then I'll send out one for October. Thanks, again.