The Napping House by Audrey and Don Wood is a wonderful book for kindergarten math. Not only does it follow a progression and a pattern as the pages follow each other, but there are a lot of things to be counted! The children made a wonderful poster to illustrate everyone who was napping, and we counted up how many eyes, people, legs, pets, ears, arms, tails, noses, mouths, and creatures altogether. This gives the children a chance to count by 2's (ears) as well as to check their work with others, and to learn whether or not fleas have ears (they don't).
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| organization and number sense |
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| practice writing |
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| organizing the cards to make sure that they are all there |
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| the progression of numbers |
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| the beginning of measuring...longer or shorter? |
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| inventory bags...show what is inside, and how many! |
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Our workshop work reflected more practice with taking inventories independently as well as a beginning measuring activity, comparing the length of one object (a tower of cubes) to determine what was longer and what was shorter. We also organized a deck of number cards 0-10 as the cards were handed to the children willy nilly.
Until Next Time,
Michele
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