Exploring Kinte Cloth and Pattern Making

This week we extended the K's Africa Unit to the math room. The children looked at kinte cloth patterns, and discussed colors and lines and patterns. We made "cloth" from brown paper drawn on, krinkled up, and painted, and created strips of designs with straight edges and colors.

Playing Games, Then Creating Our Own Games!

 We began the week playing all sorts of games. We talked about the rules, themes, pieces, ways to move or activate the game, and all of the ins and outs of taking turns.

 THEN we created our own games. There were a lot of questions to answer: How will the pieces move? What's the action of the game? What are the rules? Will it work?

 The K's created colorful games with rules and pieces, and then tried them out with their peers. They were very proud of their work!

Until Next Time,
Michele

collecting data and taking surveys

This week we learned about data. We drew a picture of our lunches, and chose our favorite item from our lunch, then shared with the group and decided how to group our data. We talked about what we can find out from data; how many people all together collected the data, how many like sweet things, and how many like other foods. From our lunch data we moved on to taking surveys. We came up with an original survey question: some samples were "do you like sunshine?" and "do you like cats?" and "do you like writing?" and with our yes/no chart we polled our classmates, the teachers, and  faculty and pre-k children. When we had enough responses, we counted up how many yes and no's. The questions were so positive that "no's" were rather infrequent.The poll takers were surprised, though, that someone did not like cats.

                                                                                   Until Next Time,
                                                                                     Michele