Good Afternoon!

A few kindergarteners met in the habitrail area this morning with a clip board, paper, and pencil. We got out the trio blocks as we started looking at the makeup of addition and subtraction equations. Children used the trio blocks to represent the numbers in the equation. For example, Lulu placed five trio blocks on one side and four trio blocks on the other side before adding them together. We talked about the difference between the addition sign and subtraction sign. Together, we came up with the answer which then lead into children drawing what they saw. After drawing the blocks, they put the answer underneath.

K.CA.1-2: Solve real-world problems, objects, or drawings that involve addition and subtraction within 10. Demonstrate the equation (e.g., 5=3+2 and 5=4+1).

Lulu took this one step further. Once she started adding numbers together, she kept the trio blocks connected. She added 5 plus 5 and got 10 and just kept on going and adding trio blocks to her creation. Once she got to 35, she added four more trio blocks coming to 39! FINALLY, she had a total of 104 trio blocks that she had counted and kept track of by writing the new answer down on her paper.

Franklin took single trio blocks and built a tower. Once it got taller than his head, Maxwell noticed he needed help so he came over and helped him continue to add blocks.

We had a group meeting this morning in the reading area. Our friends have been extremely interested in stories so we wanted to talk about how to properly put our books away so that we don’t hurt them! Miss Melinda talked about the make up of the book; front, back, and spine. Maddie demonstrated for Miss Melinda; all of us have a spine and that’s the part of the book that should be showing when we put them away.

After, children were more aware of how they were putting their book away.

Our younger preschoolers participated in a sorting activity this morning at the circle table. Children sorted mostly by color and put the counter in the correctly colored cup.

Breakfast– Whole grain cheerios and PPC cantaloupe.

Lunch– Hummus on whole wheat tortillas, PPC clementines/apple, and PPC cherry tomatoes.

PM snack– String cheese and wheat thins.

Wee Sprout– PPC snap peas.

Have a great night!

-Mindy

Link to pictures: WF 11/21