Scavenger Hunters!

This week in math, the kids did scavenger hunts for shapes and kinaras, and practiced adding numbers and amounts together.

At their first station this week, the kids searched around the room for cards with different shapes on them. Once they found a card, they matched the number on the card with the number on their paper and drew the shape. Once they found all their shapes, they colored them whatever color their paper told them to.

At their second station, the kids searched around the room for cards with different amounts of kinaras on them. Once they found a card, the matched the letter on the card with the letter on their paper and wrote how many kinaras were on the card.

Searching for shapes and kinaras

Writing down their shapes and amount of kinaras

Looking to make sure they color their shapes the right color

Writing how many kinaras were on a card

At their third station this week, the kids added marshmallows together and wrote them as addition problems.

At my table this week, the kids used dice to roll numbers and make up their own addition problems. They wrote their numbers in each box and added buttons to their snowmen to help them count, then wrote their sums. After they made their problems on their mats, they wrote the number sentence on their record sheet.

We used different colored beads as buttons

Math, Letters and Maps!

With me being gone Monday and out of the room almost all of the day Thursday, it was a little hard for me to take pictures of stations this week. I got a few, though!

Tracing, writing, and representing numbers in their counting book in math.

Sometimes, you just have to dance in the middle of working :)

Coloring and counting shapes, then graphing them in a math station.

Using linking cubes to make towers and compare them with friend's towers.

Doing their letter Yy book in reading and writing on Tuesday

Using yarn to paint a yellow letter Y in reading and writing on Tuesday

Making their maps of Muleshoe in social studies

Another Short Week!

This past week was a short one for us! We had a holiday on Monday and Kidsville on Friday. With it being such a short week and me taking grades at my table in math, I didn't get to go around to other tables as much as I would have liked. 

Thursday, the kids made watermelon W's, played our /w/ matching game, drew and wrote about things that start with the letter w, and did their Ww books. Mrs. Nix even let us snack on some of the extra watermelon she had in her room that day. Thanks Mrs. Nix! :)

Mmm ... watermelon

Look at those awesome Ww's!

In math last week, the kids completed shapes by drawing the half of the shape that was not showing; matched circles, triangles and rectangles the their correct spots; practices more or less with dice and their friends; and at my table we counted dots in ten frames up to 20 and wrote the numbers.

Finishing the other side of his shapes

We had some good music on that day that he was singing his heart out to! :)

Sorting circles, triangles and rectangles

Sorting

This week in science we are looking at sorting different objects by categories. We are sorting by color, shape, size and discussing the texture of different objects.

Monday - Sorting by color. Monday, we sorted Fruit Loops by color and recorded it in our science journals. We sorted them into groups of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

 

Tuesday - Sorting by shape. Tuesday, we sorted Chex Mix  by shape and recorded it in our science journals. We sorted them into groups of circles, squares, rectangles and ovals.

Wednesday - Sorting by size. Wednesday, we sorted shapes by the different sizes and recorded it in our science journals. The kids got triangles, squares, rhombuses and hexagons at their tables that were different sizes. They had a spot for big shapes and a spot for small shapes on their papers in their science journals to sorts their shapes into. Once they sorted them, they traced and colored them in their science journals to show which went where.

Thursday- Discussing texture. Thursday, the kids reached into feely bags and told me about what they felt. They described the texture of the different items in the bags and then guessed what they thought was inside each bag. There were some pretty entertaining faces and thoughts about what was inside each bag.

Bag 1: Pears ... which was hilarious to watch! A couple kids guessed that there was fruit in the bag but most of them were stumped!

Bag 2: Water soaked animal crackers. I know, that sounds disgusting, but it was a good texture to describe!

 

Bag 3: Cotton Balls. This was the funniest one to watch after having two bags that didn't feel the greatest. The kids were prepared for something slimy or wet or cold. Cotton balls was the last thing they thought was in the third bag!

 

Bag 4: Cereal. With 2 strange bags and 1 not so strange bag, they didn't know what was coming! They described it as hard, bumpy, rough and square but weren't sure if it was cereal or crackers.