Numbers in Review

We looked at making patterns and pictures with square tiles making sure to follow the rule of a complete side touching. Then, we talked about how to show our picture work with numbers. 3+3+2 ? what would you do?
The children revisited a few games, "toss the chips" and "racing bears" as well as "roll and record" 1 through 9. The children are learning to work together, take turns, choose the best move for their playing piece, as well as to show their math thinking with numbers and symbols.
Until Next Time,
Michele

What does this remind you of?

We continued to talk about 3D shapes, this time listing all the things that a particular shape looks like.....how about an ice cream cone? A party hat? A shark fin?

continuing to work on our quilt squares.
copying designs that were left for us
more practice
Until Next Time,
Michele

African Pattern Quilt Patches...and more shapes

This week we looked at "congruent sides" of 3D shapes, and the children were quick to learn what that meant through building with the 3D blocks!
More pattern block puzzles, and a silly face.
Finding the "footprint" of a 3D block.
Looking at African fabric patterns and making our own colorful quilt squares. What inspires us?
We will share these quilt squares with the First Graders, and think of how to combine them to make a "quilt."

Until Next Time,
Michele

3D shapes and shape murals

And the search was on. Could we find 3D shapes in our classroom? The children took pencil and clipboard and a picture representation of the shapes, and found all sorts of 3D shapes, especially in the block corner.


We made a very colorful mural of pictures we might see in the sky, at the beach, and in the ocean. The pictures were all constructed of shapes!
How many ways can you construct a hexagon?

Shapes and Pattern Blocks

sharing our work

This week we got creative with shapes...can we make shapes? Can we make shapes into something else? How about creating a pattern picture with 28 shapes with a partner, then counting up how many of each shape we used? Can we construct a hexagon with the different shapes that we have learned about? To all of these questions, the kindergartners found the answer was YES and shared their results with their classmates.

many ways to make a hexagon

constructing shapes with a geoboard

working together to make a picture with 28 shape blocks. Where do we start?

counting up the shapes we've used

more counting and checking

Shapes

We've begun a new unit of SHAPES and our introduction included books about shapes, discussing different shapes, and making our own shapes from playdough, geoboards, and paper. The children constructed shape posters with the text "A _____is just a ______ until you add__________and then it is___________." They made fish, faces, houses, and other beautiful pictures from a single shape with the addition of lines, colors, and other shapes.

Until Next Time,
Michele

Pi Day is here!

There was some serious number gaming going on in the K math class this week. The children paired up to turn over cards and add two numbers together to decide who had the larger number, or tossed red/yellow counters to see how many reds and how many yellows.

We got ready for Pi day, as well, choosing numbers 11 through 20 and illustrating the number, then finding the way in the order of numbers.
Look at the expressions on the children's faces. They were absolutely serious.




We figure out the order of the numbers 11-20 with a little help from our friends. The children were very proud of their contributions.
Until Next Time,
Michele