Newsletter 12-13-10

Top It Math Games

Top It

It is similar to the card game "War" but it is called "Top It" in our math program. If you are using a deck of cards, take out the face cards or make your own cards using index cards. Shuffle them like a deck of cards. Deal the entire deck, evenly between all of the players. To play the game, each person turns over the top card on their deck. Have your kindergartner name each number and state which is the highest number. Whoever has the highest number wins all of the cards in play. The game continues until someone has accumulated all of the flash cards. If two or more people have the same number, each person places one card face down and a second card face up. The player with the highest number wins all cards in play.

Addition Top-It
Remove the aces and picture cards from a deck of regular playing cards. Deal the remaining cards to each player (game works best with two players). Each player has his/her cards facedown in a stack. Each player then flips two cards over and adds them together. The player with the larger sum takes the other player’s cards. Continue for as long as you like or until the other player is out of cards. If there is a tie (a war), simply flip two more cards each and add again. Winner of the war takes all of the cards. We encourage you to play this often for short periods of time.

Top It

It is similar to the card game "War" but it is called "Top It" in our math program. If you are using a deck of cards, take out the face cards or make your own cards using index cards. Shuffle them like a deck of cards. Deal the entire deck, evenly between all of the players. To play the game, each person turns over the top card on their deck. Have your kindergartner name each number and state which is the highest number. Whoever has the highest number wins all of the cards in play. The game continues until someone has accumulated all of the flash cards. If two or more people have the same number, each person places one card face down and a second card face up. The player with the highest number wins all cards in play.

Addition Top-It
Remove the aces and picture cards from a deck of regular playing cards. Deal the remaining cards to each player (game works best with two players). Each player has his/her cards facedown in a stack. Each player then flips two cards over and adds them together. The player with the larger sum takes the other player’s cards. Continue for as long as you like or until the other player is out of cards. If there is a tie (a war), simply flip two more cards each and add again. Winner of the war takes all of the cards. We encourage you to play this often for short periods of time.

Newsletter 12-6-10

Patchwork Pumpkins!

Thank you for donated leftover fall fabric!! We made some really cute patchwork pumpkins and hung them on our hallway bulletin board! They turned out to be pretty cute!

Thank you for donated leftover fall fabric!! We made some really cute patchwork pumpkins and hung them on our hallway bulletin board! They turned out to be pretty cute!

My Good Little Editors...

We have such a smart group of kiddos!!! They remembered that sentences start with an uppercase letter and they fixed spelling errors! These students are AWESOME!!! I'm *SUPER* proud of you all!!!

We have such a smart group of kiddos!!! They remembered that sentences start with an uppercase letter and they fixed spelling errors! These students are AWESOME!!! I'm *SUPER* proud of you all!!!