Partner Work

Students work with partners throughout the year. These partnerships are the person who sits next to your child and are the same for reading, writing and math. This week we started partnerships for reading and math. The students read to each other in reading and played "top-it" in math. Top-it is a fun math game that can be played at home. One can use a deck a of cards. The Ace becomes a 1 and the jack is a 10. The King, Queen and Wild card are discarded.  All cards are mixed up and placed face down between two students. Each students take a card and looks at it. Whoever has the bigger or greater card wins the round and takes both cards. The game ends when all cards are chosen from the middle pile. We will play this game several ways this year:
1. the directions above
2. each player chooses a card and the winner is the one with the lesser/fewer card
3. each player takes two cards and adds- whoever has the greater sum wins
3. each player takes two cards and subtracts-who ever has the the lesser sum wins.

Please look at the pictures of our partner work.
Partner Work in First Grade