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hi Grand Prairie mathematicians and families welcome to the 2021-22 school year my name is mrs. Spangler and I am so excited to be working with you this year we are going to focus our learning on number sense number sense is being able to visualize entire comfortably about number we will work with number bonds which is a tool that we use to help make that connection between numbers will also be taken apart and putting numbers back together in different ways for example we might learn by play 0 is 522 + 3 makes five 1 + 4 makes five lot of different ways to make numbers we will also compute numbers mentally which means we're not going to always use paper Rapunzel we want to be able to work out some problems in our head and have some good strategies finally we're going to relate numbers to real-life Problems by connecting them to Everyday work maybe we want to know if we're apple picking and my sister pics for apples and I Pick 6 then we know that that makes ten Apples in all I'm finna teacher for about 27 years before Grand Prairie I worked in a different school district and taught third grade but I have been teaching at Grand Prairie for 19 years now I worked as a first grade second grade classroom teacher in different communities but then the past seven years because I love teaching math so much I decided to become a intervention teacher and I absolutely love teaching math with my boys and girls I love working with numbers I even dream about them Heat number cereal for breakfast there are some things about me I live in Frankfurt I have two daughters Emily and Lauren those are my daughters went through the Frankfurt School System they both started at Grand Prairie than Chelsea and Hickory Creek Lincolnway East and now they're in college and working as a family we enjoy going on vacations going for walks or bike rides or rollerblading on the plane Trail we love going to the beach and just hanging out together this is my younger daughter Lauren she's 21 years old and she loves running you might even see her running around town I enjoy going to see Lauren's races some times they are five k's or 10 cases just depends on how she is feeling my older daughter Emily who is 24 has been a figure skater since she was 4 years old love seeing her compete putting on shows and also teaching learn-to-skate classes this is a picture of the three of us visiting our family axis we go there several times a year and love to just catch up and visit aside from spending time with my daughters I love exercise and I also love the outdoors over the summer I went on a wonderful vacation to Arizona and actually went hiking and as you can see I hike to the top of this mountain and was just a gorgeous sight to see I felt like I was on top of the world my family is extremely important to me you're always in my heart always in my thoughts and nothing means more to me than my family my second family is Grand Prairie I'm super excited for you to see the space we will be working in together my classroom is located in the library inside a really bright and cheery glass room we have a lot of math tools that we will be working with a wreck and wreck hundreds frame are we will be using tens frames 20 frames we will be using dyes different math tools that mathematicians use will even be playing games to make learning fun and I can't wait for us to learn together and have a great time and I really hope that you will love me as much as I do I look forward to working with you and your family's we're going to work together as a team Heat close contact with each other but I want all my family's to know that I do check my email. Actually through the day and also into the evening so please reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns I will get back to you as soon as possible the the best way that we can work together with your child is if we keep our communication open you can reach me at District email Kay Spangler at fsd157c. Org I look forward to a super fantastic year together and I know we will be speaking soon thank you so much for taking the time to view my video have a super fantastic school year

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