1. Welcome First Grade Parents! Place Value Contact: tcempre@gmail.com

2. Table of Contents Song – Good for beginning understanding Straws – Good for physically representing place values for visual and kinesthetic learners Puzzler – Good beginning activity for students Robot – Uses good language for understanding and explaining Place Value Pirates – Every student loves Pirates and they will love playing this challenging game

3. Activity: Place Value Song This is a song that I will introduce in class. The repetition of ones, tens, hundreds is a good way to help students start recognize that each number is worth a different amount. This video also helps reinforce the blocks that we use in class. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W47G-h7myY

4. Activity: Place Value Straws This is an activity that isn’t online but can be done at home with cheap materials. Get around 300 straws or coffee stirrers Then make some bundles of 10 straws and 100 straws leaving some individual Ask your child to show you different numbers or you show them straws and ask how many. Focus on their language, “1 Hundreds, 4 Tens, 7 ones = 147”

5. Game: Place Value Puzzler Fun way to practice identifying where each place value is in a number. Use the easy level because it does not involve decimals or ten-thousands place. Displays correct and incorrect answers so you can check on their progress every few minutes to see if they are guessing or understanding. http://www.funbrain.com/tens/index.html

6. Game: Robbie the Robot It seems like students just copy the number but, this game really helps children think about each number as representing a separate place value by separating numbers in the answer It is also fun for them to compete against a robot and you as the parent can also track results for this game as well http://e-learningforkids.org/Courses/EN/PlaceValue/Index.html

7. Game : Place Value Pirates Warning – This game turns the cursor into a sword. There is no animated violence when selecting pirates but I wanted to warn any parents that this may concern. This game is probably the most exciting for students to play. This proves that students fully understand place value by having them identify a number that has a 2 in the ones place. http://mrnussbaum.com/placevaluepirates/

8. Thank You!!! Thank you for taking the time to look over this PowerPoint. By working together I hope we can continue to see improvement in your students academic performance. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions that you may have. tcempre@gmail.com