math
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What’s in my Math Center
This is the first installment of “What’s in my Math Center”! Can you tell I’m just a little excited about this post?! When I was growing up I HATED math. I was not good at it, and it was not fun for me. Because of my own personal experiences with math, I have vowed to make sure that math is fun for my students. I do everything that I can to make sure that the activities I have available in my math center are hands-on and really engaging, so that my kiddos can see what numbers and quantities look like, and so that they have every opportunity to build real,…
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Textile art
I am constantly looking for new ideas for art projects. We have painted with every single utensil that I can think of, we have made pictures with glue, and sculptures with a vast array of different materials. So last week I deployed materials from my own creative stash. I am an avid quilter, though you wouldn’t know it because I haven’t had much time to devote to this over the last couple of months. But I figured it was time to attempt a quilting project with my class. We have sewn before, creating scarves one winter, and sewing paper to create decorations for the classroom, so they have seen me…
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Cute Calendar Work
There is some debate over whether calendar is really developmentally appropriate for preschoolers, so I might as well add my two cents. I do calendar every day for a couple of different reasons. The days of the week and the months of the year seem like fairly abstract concepts, but when I show the children what they look like on the calendar, they can visualize what all of these words mean. Number recognition is also something that a lot of my students struggle with, especially now that my Pre-K kiddos are getting into the teens and beyond, the more opportunities that I can come up with for them to use…
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Valentine math game
This is a super easy number recognition and matching game that I found on Pinterest and adapted for our classroom. I’ll tell you my version, and you can check out my pin boards for the original! First I traced a large heart on a sheet of paper, then I made 15 dots around the edge of the heart with a bingo marker. You could do more or less depending on the needs of your class, my guys really need to work on the teens. I then used the same color bingo marker to mark the bottoms of 15 Hershey kisses. I made three game using three different colors so that…
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St. Patrick’s Day Math and Science
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Counting candy canes
Here’s a great activity for number recognition and counting – my kids were actually arguing over who would get to do this activity next – that’s a great teacher moment! Use a tray with seperate compartments (ours is a veggie tray left over from a class party) and place a different number in each compertment. I taped the numbers down so that they wouldn’t move, and so they would be removeable, therefore I can change them when my kids have these particular number down. Then give the children different objects to count into the numbered compartments – at halloween we used candy corn, today we used candy canes. The miniature…
