Week of October 15

A big math idea in kindergarten is that "teen numbers are made of ten and some more". We work in this concept throughout the year by building teen quantities with various materials and finger flashing teens.

Teen work on the number line.

Teen crowns in 123.

Our October calendar is about directions: up, down, to the right, to the left. We can use direction words to explain an object's location. There are also several patterns emerging on our calendar markers.

We have been counting our days in school using a number line...

...tens frames...

...and links.

Alphabet strip,in ABC.

Theme activity.

Letter detectives.

iPad math work.

Working with combinations of 5.

"Shake and Drop" math game.

Plane line round letters...

...start with a "magic c".

Learning about combinations of 10.

Week of October 8

Kindergarten kids are practicing counting backwards from 10.

In kindergarten we learn about various tools that help us count, compose and decompose numbers.

A number rack is a tool that we use to answe "how many" questions.

FUNdations cards for letter name/letter sound work.

Letter writing practice...

..."the kindergarten way".

Week of October 1

Text to text connections

Pumpkins books, fiction and nonfiction.

Autumn books.

Count and match.

Rhyming work

Children created diagrams of an apple.

Alphabet matching.

October calendar

Students have been numeral writing so they were tasked with writing 1-5 "the kindergarten way".

"Roll and Compare" math game. Mathematicians can compare amounts.

This is a partner game!

Ten frame work.

Children stamped their own ten frames to match numerals. Ten frames are math tools that help us Count and work with combinations of numbers.

Practicing reading 'like'.

Word work in the theme area: putting words in sentence order!

Beginning sounds work.

FUNdations work: learning letter names and letter sounds.

Fall trees.

Happy October!