Weaving Preview

We spent this week weaving in anticipation for the time that we will spend with the first graders weaving in the classroom. The children quickly learned the "over under" pattern, how to keep track of which side to insert the thread into, and how to focus on their work.

Absorbing work!
Until Next Time,
Michele

Playing the Game!

We finished the games that we were making this week and tried them out with our friends. There were some last minute changes (dice instead of cards, bigger spaces to jump to) but the children were very happy with the success of their games. Creating a game requires thinking ahead, having a start and a finish, some logic to the placement of the pieces, and following through.

Until Next Time,
Michele

What makes a game a game?

The kindergarten mathematicians have played games and made games this week. We talked about what we needed to have our "game" be a game-some thoughts that were shared included a spinner, a board, tiles or money, something to move along, and a story. We started to make our own games and will be practicing with them to see if they work! If not, it's "back to the drawing board!"

Until Next Time,
Michele

Surveys

We continued to collect data this week, and talked about our lunches and favorite foods, and learned how to take yes/no surveys. The k mathematicians learned quickly how to keep track of a large number of responses as we moved out into the halls to ask others questions. The K's were surprised by some of the responses (who doesn't like dragons?!) but overall were very enthusiastic about collecting and collating their data.We asked everyone in the school that we could find!

Until Next Time,
Michele

Collecting Data and Comparing Attributes

 We have begun to look at collecting data, or gathering information that will tell us something. When I asked the children "What will someone know if they look at our eye chart?" some of the answers were "how many eyes in the classroom" and "what color our eyes are." We talked about "skip counting" and discovered that there are more eyes than children in our room, and when we drew pictures of our families and counted up body parts like fingers and toes the numbers got really big! We drew our self portraits, and will use them to group ourselves by similar attributes.

Until next time,
Michele

This Week in Numbers

This was a week for finding out how many combinations of numbers could make six or five. There was more than one answer, which was interesting for all of us to discover. We are working on being partners and combining our efforts to create one answer. It's surprisingly difficult, but with some practice the children are getting better and better at it.  We tossed chips and graphed the results, we combined number cards to make "6" and learned that 1 and 1 and 4 could make six.
Until next time,
Michele