The kinders have been busy, busy, busy! As I sit down to write about the events since my last blog, I couldn't decide what to write about. Our students welcomed Special Friends into the math classroom, took their math work outside into the community garden and explored their geometric shapes through construction. We continue our learning with geometric shapes in the classroom, now exploring how to build them and sort them by attributes. I recall their reactions as they imagined what shapes are needed to build a cylinder and triangular pyramid. We tried and failed. We tried again and again. Sometimes, they can get frustrated when they don't seem to get something they very first time, but I love watching the "aha!" moment when they finally see improvement and progress. When we finally were able to construct our figures, I heard cheers, laughter and "That was the best thing EVER!" I hope we will continue to have these wonderful moments of learning at its best.
Here are some guiding questions you might ask your child at home: 1) Can you name an attribute that a cylinder and a sphere have in common? What is alike and what is not alike about them? 2) How do you know a cube is a cube? Why isn't it a sphere? 3) Take a look at the Kleenex box (or whatever object you choose). Without touching it, what do you think the base looks like? How many faces do you think it has? What shapes make the box? (a fantastic way to develop their visual-spatial reasoning) I could write more - I could write all day about the fun stuff they are doing! But, I took tons of pictures of late because they are just so precious. So, I decided that this blog would be a "photo gallery." As the saying goes, a picture captures a thousand words! Enjoy the rest!
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