Those Tricky Teens and Twenties

This week I am going to tell you TEN great activities to help your kids learn those tricky teen numbers from 11-19! Of course, place value is a big part of learning to identify the numbers in the teens, but memorization of the names of the numbers also plays a part. I hope that these ideas are helpful to you! This week, I was off to Minnesota for SDE’s Kinder and Pre-K Conference. As usual, it was a lot of work, but I had a great time, and I met a lot of wonderful people! I did get to treat myself to an extra day so that I could catch a couple of the morning sessions on day one of the conference. I was fortunate enough to see Vanessa Levin's sessions on Guided Reading, Using the Interactive Whiteboard in the Early Childhood Classroom, Having Your Cake and Eating It Too, and The Secret to Managing Sensational Centers. I had never seen her present before, so I was delighted to see what a dynamic speaker she is and what fun ideas she had! And YES! I DID sta