Math Is Everywhere We Look!

 

                                                              

                                                                    Happy New Year! 

                                             Math Is Everywhere We Look!                

                 Thank you for visiting our blog. We have been busy working and growing as kindergarten mathematicians. We hope the new year is off to a beautiful start for you, your family, and your students.                                                  

We have a collection of different math activities we did at the end of 2022 and a few new lessons to start in 2023. As a class, we try to find math in everything we do, from building three-dimensional shapes to sorting shapes into graphs and counting collections. We take advantage of every opportunity to count, read, and write.

                               Three-dimensional shapes are always a big hit. 

     

                  We used dice and pom-poms for gingerbread counting practice. It turned into a sorting and counting collections game too. 

Penguins and pinecones are two of our favorite things. Science, math, and reading.

                We love sorting and counting a new number collection. Do you?

       

                                                        Dice and Bones!

                                  Roll, count, and compare to your partner.

        

 

                         We created a shape museum and sorted our 3D shapes into a graph. Each Bunny shared information about their shape and why it was 3D.
                                              

                   Table families worked on 3D buildings. They wrote about their designs and counted how many blocks each structure had; this was the one with the most blocks! 

 We have enjoyed reading different books expand our learning. We hope that you love them as much as we do.

                                                         Keep on counting!

                       

We're Not Afraid of Ghosts!

                                We Love Halloween Math *

    It looks a lot like Halloween around our classroom. We finished a unit on spiders and pumpkins, and we'll learn about bats and owls over the next few weeks. We read Ten Timid Ghosts by Jennifer O'Connell to mix in some fantasy fun. We made ghost houses as part of a counting retelling, and to add a bit of fun, we learned how to draw a haunted house from Art Hub for Kids/YouTube: https://youtu.be/cGM_VhNXMmo.

      Our haunted houses became our math mats. The Bunnies had fun creating addition and subtraction stories using mini Halloween erasers as manipulatives. 

     *Please note that all of my Bunnies can celebrate Halloween. If they had observed differently, we would've created a different math mat and played other counting games during this time.

                                                   

                       Here are some of our other projects using pumpkins. We experienced pumpkin bowling during our parent involvement day and used our counting skills to determine how many blocks we knocked down. 

                      We challenged ourselves to build a stand to hold our pumpkins.

                                                  Math is everywhere!