It's over a hundred degrees outside in Southern California, but we're still celebrating the Fall season with a great new book and several counting activities. How does your class celebrate this particular time of the year?
We've settled nicely into our new daily routines and are ready to share what we've been up to for the past several weeks. We read the book, Counting On Fall by
Lizann Flatt used that as our starting point for looking to nature for math. This beautifully illustrated book has several different Fall habitats with animals and other objects to notice and wonder about. This book stimulated many conversations and led us to go on our own Fall counting walk.
The Bunnies were excited to use leaves for counting and graphing activities. We sorted them by color, shape, and size and graphing by color. We also used our Fall tree artwork for a math mat. One Bunny suggested putting numbers on the leaves to help put them in a number line.
The book, The Leaves Are Falling One by One, by Steve Metzger, is always a big hit. We had fun throwing our six hundred pretend leaves around as we read the book.
I have future math teachers in this group of Bunnies. They love creating new math activities on their own.
Math is for Everyone!
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