We’re off to an incredible start! I’m having so much fun with our kiddos for math. We have such a dynamic group full of creativity and eagerness to learn. In just a few days, they are already showing me their potential. This week, we discussed how the classroom was a great place to manage our impulsivity, our current Habit of Mind focus. It’s HARD to stay focused all day long! Yet, our students are learning how we can learn to keep ourselves focused so that we can be our best!
On top of learning expectations and procedures in Kindergarten this week, students engaged in a read aloud of Missing Math: A Number Mystery by Loreen Leedy. This sparked their curiosity and provided us the space to ask, what would life be like without math? Help make it concrete to them by honing in on specifics: what would life be like without numbers, shapes, measurement tools, money, etc. This week, we also started our first unit in math. In this unit, students will count to 20 and recognize and build sets of 10 using five-frames and ten-frames and objects. Later in this unit, students will start to order and compare numbers and write their numerals to 10. They explore numbers, shapes and patterns by playing at "Work Places." As an addition to our Number Corner portion of our curriculum, students will be participating in “100 Acts of Kindness.” As we count every day we are in school and look forward to the “100th” day, students will take turns sharing their act of kindness for the day. We will record our acts and display them in the back of our classroom as a reminder that there is always room for kindness every moment of every day!
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