The children loved hearing this classic book...
....and enjoyed creating their own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom trees to take home.
This week in math, I introduced several new 'math tools'. The students had many opportunities to explore these materials.
Pattern Blocks.
Polydrons.
Unifex Cubes.
We created a name chart where we compared the amount of letters in our names...
...then continued on to work with our own names on a simple chart.
Another math lesson involved using 'five frames'. This is a math tool children start using in kindergarten and lays the foundation for math in further grades. Five frames are a counting tool that help children subitize as well as see various combinations that make 5. We played the game "Fabulous Fives" where I flashed a five frame and children used Unifex cubes to build what they saw. I then flashed the finger pattern cards and children used five frames and Unifex cubes to built that amount.
"Spill Five Beans" was a popular math game. This game encourages learning the combinations that make 5, as well as practicing numeral writing.
Geoboards was anoth hit in the math area!
We read the story of Rainbow Fish and talked about how sharing is one way to be a kind friend.
We read this book as part of Kindergarten Community of Fun Fridays when we merge classes.
Children then used water colors to paint their own rainbow fish.
Each kindergarten student will get one shiny scale to represent the moral of the story: sharing is caring. 😃
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