Good Afternoon!
After we read ‘Stellaluna’ in K group and filled in our chart with the characters and setting, we gathered in a circle and began talking about equal groups. We did a few examples together and we started with the number 10. I put 10 gems into the middle of the group and asked how we would go about sorting these two gems into two equal groups. Franklin thought about it and quickly said, “Well there would be five gems in each group because 5 plus 5 is 10.”—this lead into some more challenging problems such as taking 12 gems and sorting them into three equal groups. We continued on and did a few more examples together.
K.NS.10: Separate sets of ten or fewer objects into equal groups.
Our kindergarten sign in required children to write numbers in the provided blank spots that made the equation true. For example, one problem read ‘16 > _____’. Using their knowledge of greater than, less than, and equal to, they were able to fill in each blank space with an appropriate number.
K.NS.7: Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group.
In PREK2, children talked about the terms greater than and less than. Miss Kim put colored counters into two boxes and after counting both groups, children identified which group was greater and which had less.
Miss Kim set up a cooking station at the island this morning and on the agenda was peanut butter muffins for tomorrows snack! Children waited patiently for their turn to help either adding an ingredient to the mixture or simply stirring the batter before it was put into the oven.
A sneak peak into the rest of our day!
Breakfast– Corn Chex and fresh pineapple.
Lunch– Brown rice with shredded chicken and cheese, fresh oranges/pineapple, and fresh carrots/cucumber.
PM snack– Whole wheat crackers and sunflower seeds.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber.
Have a lovely night!
-Mindy
Link to pictures: WF 2/11