We LOVE Centers!

While Mrs. Kroeger has been working with students one-on-one this week, Kindergartners have been hard at work in their math and literacy centers.  Here are some of the activities we are working on!

Simple Sums:  Students played with a partner.  Each partner rolled two dice, added the numbers together and recorded their answers on their "Ssssimple Sums" board.  The first one to fill their snake won the game! 

Simple Sums

Leaf Patterns:  Kindergartners created a variety of patterns using different colored leaves.  They then needed to label their pattern:  AB, ABC, ABB, AAB.

 

Before, After, Between:  We have been working hard on developing our number sense.  Kindergartners played this game in a group of four.  Each player receives two cards.  The first player draws a 3rd card and decides if that card "fits" between the first two.  For instance, if a student has a 3 and a 8 and draws a 5, this number fits between.  They would then record this set of numbers on their paper, keep the 3 cards and then draw two new cards.  The game continued until no more cards were left!

 Stamping Fun:  Students stamped the letters that are in their name and not in their name.  This was one of our favorite centers (and the messiest!)

How can we make 6?

How can we make 6?  Kindergarteners have spent the last few days working on the number 6.  Aside from learning how to write the number 6, we practiced counting out 6 counters, build stacks of 6 unifix cubes, wrote our numbers from 1-6, drew 6 objects and sorted through dominoes to find ones that had a total of 6.  After students found all the dominoes with 6, we talked about the different ways we can make 6 and created a chart.  We learned that we can make 6 by creating a group of 2 and a group of 4, two groups of 3, and so on.  This is an early introduction to the concept of addition!

Next up is the number 7!