(We did have a couple of students who didn't want to participate)
Just a bunch of twins! Happy twin day! (We did have a couple of students who didn't want to participate)
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This unit will help students develop their first concept of “force,” and the idea that by playing with forces and thinking about them, we can accomplish surprisingly big things Mystery 1: Pushes, Pulls, & “Work Words"In this Mystery students discover that there are pushes & pulls involved in any kind of work, including the work done by machines. activity:Be a Digging MachineMake sure students have enough space to move around as they dig like a digging machine. No other preparation needed. Mystery 2: Strength & Direction of ForceIn this Mystery students change the strength and direction of a wrecking ball’s push in order to solve a tricky problem - how can you knock down a wall made of concrete? activity:Don't Crush That HouseStep 1: Decide how many game stations you will need.Your students will play the Wrecking Ball game in groups, taking turns. We suggest 4 to 6 students per game station. Decide how many students you’ll have in a group. Our How-to authors got a lot of visitors yesterday at our publishing party! Make sure to check Friday Folders for their books and all the comments they received - way to go kindergarten :) This afternoon we made cards for Pam [from the kitchen] with our big buddies! It is very common (and developmentally appropriate) for kindergartners to reverse their numbers. However, it does become a problem when they reverse the order when writing teen numbers (i.e. writing 31 for 13). Below are some songs I play to help with that! It is important for students to become comfortable with whole numbers 11-19 and to understand that these numbers are composed of a ten and some ones. In kindergarten, we are laying the foundation for understanding place value and the base-ten system by drawing special attention to 10 as a landmark number through hands-on activities and exploration. In the morning meeting game we've been playing this week the students sit in a circle and quietly pass around a chicken while the student who is "it" counts away from the circle. The student who is "it" begins counting to any number over 20 and doesn't tell the group to what number they are going to count. When they reach their chosen number they shout out "chicken!". The game quickly turned into a chance for the kiddos to show off their counting skills, when it's their turn to be "it" most of the them have chosen to count to 100! Some kids have even counted to 110 and 120!
On Monday we will begin Unit 6: Three-Dimensional Shapes & Numbers Beyond Ten. We are skipping Unit 5 for now to focus on numbers beyond ten, we will come back to Unit 5 and two-dimensional shapes at the end of the year.
www.mathlearningcenter.org/sites/default/files/documents/family/PAR-BR0-U6.pdf Friday update: Today the kindergartners measured with unifix cubes. They were given a "train" of 10 cubes to begin with. While many of them found objects shorter than 10 cubes to measure, many of the kiddos choose to use their train to measure large objects by counting by 10s! The largest thing measured: the length of the classroom from the door to the windows! 492 cubes long! Last week and this week we have been focusing on measuring length with non-standard units (feet, craft sticks, and Unifix cubes). The kindergartners have compared objects in the classroom to develop an understanding of the concepts of longer, shorter and the same length. Today they not only measured objects in the room (e.g. rugs, whiteboard, window, table), but they also measured each other, including Mrs. Jarvis and I! |
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