Bridges

Our school district has adopted the math program, Bridges, that Vista 1st and 2nd graders have been piloting this year! We couldn't be happier as Bridges is the most comprehensive program I have used in 20 years of teaching. Our classroom features a combination of whole-group, small-group, and independent activities. Lessons incorporate increasingly complex visual models - seeing, touching, working with manipulatives, and sketching ideas - to create pictures in the mind's eye that helps the children invent, understand, and remember mathematical ideas. By encouraging students to explore, test, and justify their reasoning, the curriculum facilitates the development of mathematical thinking.
Bridges grew out of a project funded by the National Science Foundation to improve the teaching of mathematics. No wonder there is so much science content within each unit (insects, sea creatures, penguins, farm animals)! Students are being exposed to mathematical concepts in a consistent and developmentally appropriate manner. They know concepts about money, time, place value, and computation that wouldn’t have been introduced yet in our past program thanks to the daily calendar routine called Number Corner.
Grade 1 Scope and Sequence
Grade 2 Scope and Sequence
Stay tuned for an update on our current math unit: My Little Farm - focusing on money, place value, and mapping skills.

We LOVE math!!!