100th Day of SchoolMATHCalendar
SKILL: The child learns number order, hundreds chart, ordinals, seasons, months, weeks, days of the week, (calendar conventions).
MATERIALS: Calendar, stuffed hand pointer, Hundred Chart, dry erase marker, globe, magnetic numbers
ACTIVITY: The teacher puts the current date on the calendar. The children and the teacher say the date using the stuffed hand pointer on the end. We say, "Today is Wednesday, October 10th and the season is Fall". We color 10 on the Hundred Chart with a dry erase marker.
ACTIVITY: Sing Barney's Days of the Week song:
(Tune of Oh My Darling Clementine)
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday,
There are 7 days, there are 7 days, there are 7 days in the week.
ACTIVITY: While child sits on the sun on the number rug and pretends to be the sun, the teacher moves the globe, tilted on its axis, around the sun, showing how the top half (use the word hemisphere) is either close to the sun (summer) or away from the sun (winter).
We do our daily calendar.Place Value
SKILL: The child learns and understands place value to 100.
MATERIALS: Popsicle sticks, small boxes labeled Ones, Tens, Hundred, rubber bands, Hundred Chart, white board, dry erase marker
ACTIVITY: Next to the calendar, there is a Ones Box and a Tens Box. A child puts a popsicle stick in the Ones Box every day of school. We count how many are in the Ones Box and write the number on a whiteboard. When we have 10 in the Ones Box, we make a Bundle of Ten using a rubber band and put it in the Tens Box. We write the number of Tens Bundles on the whiteboard. Then we make that many pictures on the whiteboard. Then we find and color that number on the Hundred Chart with a dry erase marker. We also draw that number of things on the whiteboard.
ACTIVITY: It is widely known that for a math concept to be well understood, it must be presented in three different ways. Base Ten Math Blocks reinforce the concepts of ones, tens, and hundreds in a concrete way.
Place value to 1000Hundred Chart
SKILL: Counting, number patterns, and consistency
MATERIALS: Hundred Chart, dry erase marker, pennies, dimes, dollar, equal sign
ACTIVITY: The Hundred Chart is a square of all the numbers to 100 starting with one. It reinforces place value and the patterns of numbers. Many students love the Hundred Chart and look for patterns during Calendar.
ACTIVITY: Place Value may be reinforced by counting by 10s on the Hundred Chart and color all the 10s. During 'Dd' week, "dimes" and "dollars" are introduced. Since it was the 10th of the month, we put a penny on every number on the Hundred Chart, counting along. Then 10 pennies are traded for a dime in every row, putting them on the multiples of 10. There were 10 10s. Then a magnetic equal sign and a dollar is added to make a number sentence. It is explained that equal means "the same as". Then the number sentence is read as "10 dimes or 10 10s equals (or is the same as) a dollar".
Board Games
SKILL: Board games promote the awareness of one to one correspondence.
MATERIALS: Board game, dice, tokens or markers
ACTIVITY: A board game of connecting squares is made with a beginning and an end. Coloring the squares helps. Tokens are used for game markers for each child. A die with dots is dropped. The dots are counted and the die is placed on the magnetic number represented by the dots. The child then moves his marker that many squares.
ACTIVITY: Two dice marked from 0-5 may be used for kids ready to add and the number of fingers are counted.
ACTIVITY: Another variation may be used outside with squares marked with sidewalk chalk and one or two large dice. The child's body is the game marker.
ACTIVITY: When the board game concept is introduced, competition doesn't have to be. All students may use the same marker on the small game and take turns rolling the die. On the large game, all students may move together and take turns rolling the die.
Number Line and Number Rug
SKILL: One to one correspondence, number recognition, counting
MATERIALS: Number line, number rug, number song pointers, fly swatters
ACTIVITY: The number line and number rug may be pointed to while singing the number song. It's an echo song with numbers to 20. The rhythm and rhyme of it make it easy to remember the order of the numbers to 20. Many young kids get the teens mixed up. This puts it into memory in a whole new way.
ACTIVITY: Addition with adding on can be movement based on the rug or pointing to the number line. The first number is pointed to or hopped on. Then the second one is counted by pointing or hopping. The answer is where s/he lands.
A student measures and graphs how far the marble rolls.MEASUREMENTSKILL: The child will measure with inches and centimeters.
MATERIALS: Ruler, quilter's tape measure
ACTIVITY: The child is introduced to measuring with a ruler and quilter's tape measure by introducing the concept of starting at zero and laying the ruler or tape beside the object measured, then reading the number at the end.
ACTIVITY: The quilter's tape can be reversed to show the centimeter side. The child can practice measuring and can compare numbers with inches.
ACTIVITY: The child can find numbers on the quilters tape centimeter side to 300, first finding the hundreds, then the tens and then the ones. S/he can make the number with magnetic letters or with Base Ten Math Blocks.
ACTIVITY: A plant is measured and graphed daily.
SKILL: The child will measure time on a clock to the hour.
MATERIALS: Clock with moveable hands, dry erase marker
ACTIVITY: The concept of "o'clock" is introduced on an analog and digital clock. The short hand points to the hour and the long hand points to the 12 on the analog clock. The digital clock is marked with the hour :00.
FRACTIONS
SKILL: The child will understand, demonstrate, and use the vocabulary of fractions, whole, half, thirds, and fourths or quarters using food.
MATERIALS: Book
Eating Fractions, food, plastic knives
ACTIVITY: After reading the book, Eating Fractions, we count how many pieces to cut the whole food into, then we cut and each eat a fraction while using the appropriate vocabulary.
A student eats fractions.DOMINO MATH
SKILL: One to one correspondence, addition
MATERIALS: Dominoes, magnetic numbers
ACTIVITY: Dominoes may be used in the more traditional matching format. All dominoes are placed face up. The students take turns finding matching dots and making a large tiling. Doubles may be placed sideways and added on in four directions.
ACTIVITY: Addition is a natural next incremental step with dominoes. The child is introduced to the number sentence and finds the corresponding magnetic numbers to place under the domino. An addition sign and equal sign are placed in the number sentence. The dots are counted and the magnetic number for it placed at the end of the equal sign.