Earth Week Math

Last week we carried the Earth Week theme across everything! The kids' stations for math were Earth Day themed just like reading and writing stations. The kids graphed different types of recycling, practiced their addition and subtraction using linking cubes (if they needed them), and the kids solved different word problems at my table.

Addition and Word Problems!

This week in math, the kids did stations that focused a lot on practicing addition and subtraction.

Their first station this week was sorting and solving addition and subtraction problems. The kids looked at each problem and decided if it was addition or subtraction, then solved the problem. Or solved. then sorted ... whichever worked best!

Their second station this week was finishing up any math work in their not finished folders. If they were finished with all of their math work, they got to play with anything that was on the math shelf.

At their third station this week the kids used the number donuts and linking cubes (if they needed them) to practice adding numbers together. 

At my table this week we worked on using our fact family houses.

 

Our word problems this week:

Monday - Maddox was feeding 5 ducks. 3 more ducks swam up. How many ducks did Maddox feed?

Tuesday - Maelyne and Mya were sharing 6 pears on the playground. Maelyne got 3 pears. How many pears were left for Mya?

Wednesday - Savannah had 4 pieces of candy. Tristen had 5 pieces of candy. How many pieces of candy did Savannah and Tristen have?

Easter Math

This week in math was a testing week at my table, so I was not able to walk around and take pictures during math like I usually do. The kids showed greater and less with numbered peeps, made addition problems with Easter eggs, adding the bottoms and tops together, opened Easter eggs and counted the money inside of each one, and showed one more, less or equal to with different spring pictures.

We also started reading and solving story problem right before calendar each morning. As soon as the kids get into the room, there is a story problem showing either on the screen or on the board. The kids read the problem and think about it during breakfast. Once the bell rings and we are all cleaned up, the kids get a dry erase board and marker. Then, we read the problem together in case someone was unable to read it (but they are doing awesome reading them), and the kids solve the problem on their boards writing either the addition sentence or the subtraction sentence.

Friday's word problem