Week of October 28th-31st
making numbers with play dough and then putting them in order
number sentences!
two JK’s made a number line all the way to 20!
Another number sentence 5+5=10
using different shaped to create a picture. How many shapes do you see?
Another shape picture
Our First 3 Part Math Lesson
We introduced the concept of patterning this week and partook in our first 3 part math lesson this week!
Here are a few photos from our math materials exploration
Look at all those patterns!
This AB pattern was 33 tiles long!
Making lots of patterns with stickers
I made two different patterns, can you see what they are? What’s another way to say the pattern?
More Magnificent Math
counting numbers
making an ‘ab’ pattern with grid paper
math sentences on the dry erase board
extending my learning from the “Five Little Speckled Frogs,” (our “Minds On” lesson) to my math materials
making math equations in my play dough with number stamps and dice
making math sentences, representing each number with chips
Lots of math happening at this table! This is a great example of how each child can use the materials in their own way to enhance their learning
Introducing Linus the Minus!
This week the children met Linus. Linus likes to make numbers smaller by taking them away. Just like with Gus, the children took turns pretending to be Linus and created number sentences as a whole group (we call this our “Minds On” portion of our 3 part math lessons).
First we introduced Linus to our class with a poem
Poem about “Linus the Minus”
Then we asked the children to choose numbers for our number sentence
Lots of numbers to choose from
This is the number sentenced we created as a whole group
5-3=2
The second part to our 3 part math lesson, the “Action” portion, includes two pieces; a guided group (used for teaching specific concepts in a smaller setting) and math materials available for exploration (which the children can use in any fashion and is further expanded by one of the educators).
Here is an example from a guided group session:
the math sentence and manipulatives
working through the equation and writing the answer
working through the number sentence with manipulatives
8-5=3
And here are some math materials that were available that day:
making a math train and copying my pattern on to the grid
using felt numbers to create a math sentence
more felt number sentences
using stamps in the play dough
I can make the number 10!
racing to see who can fill up the five frame first
The final part of our 3 part math lesson is the, “Consolidation” piece. Each educator takes a few minutes to re-visit and share the learning that occurred in two groups (those at the guided group, and those using the math materials).
Sharing their work gives students the opportunity to use math language and verbally walk the group through each step. This also allows for other ideas to be exchanged for upcoming math materials and helps to plan for the next step in the guided groups as well.
sharing my number sentences I created using a calculator and clipboard
5=4=9 written horizontally
and the starting of a new math equation (that was written vertically)
We wanted to add this page to our blog to show you what math looks like in our FDK program. The children have many math opportunities throughout the day, both during play and through teaching and carefully selected materials.
Today we introduced the children to, “Gus the Plus.” As a group, we read a poem so that the children knew who Gus was and what his job was.
introducing “Gus”
Next the children took turns pretending to be Gus! This was very exciting! Working together we created multiple number sentences using addition (with Gus’ help of course!)
Then we gave the children an opportunity to pick their own numbers to create a number sentence. We ended up with some very high numbers!
