Georgetown Elementary School

Richard Byrne, author of the blog FREE TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHERS, shared a new website, SMARTY GAMES, designed to help elementary students develop basic math and reading skills.  After visiting the site, I decided that this would be helpful to many students during the summer months.

Free featured games for mathematics cover basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  Reading games include games that focus on alphabet recognition and story content, plus more.

If you are working on math facts with your child over the summer months, I have a helpful link that is worth checking out.  The authors of this blog provide strategies for learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts.  MATH FACTS

If you are looking for a site that provides practice with facts, here are some additional links to check out!

Kids Numbers

Online Math

Math TV – Video Mathematics Lessons

Ghost Blasters, Math Blasters

Math A Tube
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This past week, Hudsonville Public Schools hosted seven teachers and administrators from the United Kingdom. They were traveling to our district to learn more about our math curriculum and ways in which we support all levels of learners. The UK team spent a day with K-5 teachers reviewing math curriculum and observed instruction at Park, Jamestown, South and Georgetown Elementary Schools.

While visiting our school, the UK team was able to observe first grade number sense lessons, as well as second through third grade differentiated instruction, and fourth through fifth grade math, writing and reading. When the observations were concluded, we met with the team to process and answer questions. They were impressed with our students and the way in which they can explain their thinking while working on math. This made us smile with pride!

We hope to keep in touch with the UK team and their work abroad. Warm wishes to: Jenny Mayne, Karen Cockman, Joanne Nodder, Julie Ball, Catherine Clark, Rita McCracken, and Christobel Cousins!

We have created a voicethread (mini-video) which walks you through a best practice math lesson in one of our first grade classrooms. This lesson begins with a teacher modeling for the entire class, followed by two student model/guiding the class in the lesson, and concludes with all students practicing the lesson independently.

We hope you enjoy our voicethread!