Spookley Math

Each day we are working on creating a classroom where everyone is treated fairly and with respect.  We read a story to help to support those positive feelings of respect.

Spookley The Square Pumpkin

The children created their own unique pumpkin and wrote about their favorite part of the story.

Ask your child to tell you the story of Spookley.

As a tie into our Spookley story we are working on 2D and 3D shapes.  We are working on learning their attributes and how to sort them.

We have been sorting objects in a variety if ways!  

Using our shapes we have also been learning patterning.  Some of our kindergarten friends have been creating and describing some really neat 3 and 4 part patterns.  We have discussed that if a triangle is turned a different direction in a pattern that it must remain in that direction and repeat throughout the entire pattern.

Patterns repeat.  That is the key!  

We also talked about if a shape is turned a different direction, it is still that shape only facing a different way! 

Here is one of our favorite songs that we sing to help with learning our shapes!

Ask your child to find these shapes in their world at home.

Patterning and sorting can be easily done at home as well!

2D Shapes-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htcuPenTg38

I will be posting our 3D shape song soon!  Come back to see!

When we are using our shapes I have also asked the children to practice counting backwards. We started off by using  shapes and simply counting backwards by touching them. Our tactile learners really benefit from this.

 Then, I showed them a number line and we practiced  jumping backwards (well not literally!).  

We also love to jam out to this song as we practice number recognition and counting backwards! 

Counting backwards-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srPktd4k_O8