Once a week aside from the regular Sunday blog post, I'll try to spotlight an Agent and one of their favorite activities or work they're particularly proud of. Since Agent V was our first volunteer, this week we'll be taking a look at one of his favorite Workbox math activities: number chains.
I got the idea from See a Word, Say a Word, which is a fantastic workbook that helps students with high frequency and number word recognition. It has a page with multi-color rectangles students are meant to cut out and string together according to a number printed on each rectangle. To avoid making a bajillion copies, I cut strips of colorful construction paper and write the numbers 1 through 10 on them with a Sharpie, and Agent V puts them together accordingly. He does one or two number chains a week, and we're trying to see if he can make enough to go all the way across the room.
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| I took this picture a couple weeks ago; so far he's got five sets of ten, with a grand total of fifty chain links. |
This is a really simple but really great activity, because each helps Agent V with number recognition and sequencing, and it improves his motor skills as he maneuvers the paper to make a chain and keeps things together when taping the strip ends down. It also gives him something to work towards and keep track of; a couple sets of ten a week really starts to add up.
Check back next week to read about Agent M and her (inexplicably) favorite sight word worksheets!
God bless,
Mia
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