Math

Over the past couple of weeks in math the kids have been building word problems, showing more and less with pocket charts, comparing amounts with community helpers, showing greater and less than with PacMan and Mrs. PacMan, matching numbers with dominoes, making numbers on twenty frame mats and practicing writing their numbers.

Working With 10

Since this week was such a short week, we did whole group math all week. Monday, the kids got in pairs and practiced showing one more and one less on their 20 frames. Each group got 20 linking cubes. I gave them a number and they showed what it looked like in one 10 frame, then the other partner in the group showed what it looked like if it had one more or one less.

Tuesday, we watched a BrainPOP on making 10 and practiced showing the different ways to make 10. We used linking cubes to work the examples with Annie and Moby as they made ten with red and blue linking cubes.

Thursday, the kids got in pairs again and practiced making 10 with linking cubes. Each partner got a tower of 10 linking cubes in a different color. They had to use cubes from both towers to make the numbers I gave them, then we talked about it as a class.

 

One More and One Less

This week in math, our focus was on making groups of objects that showed one more and one less. Monday is always our whole group day where we do our main lesson on the carpet as a group. Each of the kids got 5 linking cubes and had to build a tower that was either one more than mine or one less than mine depending on what the spinner told us.

In their first math station this week, the kids matched amounts on acorn tops with the correct numeral on  acorn bottoms.

In their second math station this week, the kids rolled dice, then colored the number that matched the amount of dots that was on the dice when they rolled it.

At their third station this week, the kids traced numbers 1-5 and found the group of Chester's that matched the number they were tracing.

At my table, we practiced making towers that showed one more or one less that other towers we built. The kids spun a number between 1 and 5, then made a tower. Then, we spun the more or less spinner and built a new tower with either one more or one less and compared the two.