It was another wonderful week in Kindergarten 💗 We explored some new centres, played a dice math game, wrote in our journals and looked closely at Mrs. Dupuis' super cool pumpkin!
Learning Intention:
- Children investigate quantity to 10
I can:
- Recognize a number of familiar objects as a quantity
- Relate a numeral to a specific quantity
Through a variety of centre activities and games, students have the opportunity to explore and engage with different numeracy experiences. We have been working on recognizing numerals, matching numerals to a quantity, as well as counting sets of objects using one to one correspondence - which is the skill of counting accurately by pointing to one object as you say one number. At our popsicle stick pull centre, students practice 1:1 counting by pulling a numbered popsicle stick out of a container and then place the corresponding quantity of foam shapes on the stick using tweezers (this helps strengthen their pincher grasp). This week, we also learned a new math game called 'Roll and Build' where students worked in partners to build a tower city. Students played by taking turns rolling a die, and either subitized (recognized a quantity on objects at a glance without counting) or counted the dots on the die to see how many blocks tall they needed to make their tower. We focused on using 1:1 correspondence while counting our dice dots as well as the blocks we used for building our towers. Lastly, students had to place their tower on the numeral that matched the number of blocks in their tower.
