Help me give my students some amazing new math manipulatives (geoboards, unifix cubes, tangrams, color and size sorting bears and a fine motor bug sorting game) to use during our daily math center time.
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My Students
I have been teaching kindergarten for 27 years in a great school, which is located in a high poverty community. Despite the often sad circumstances my students face, they are beating the odds every day. My students are bright, friendly, and extremely eager to learn new things. They love to explore and learn through play and hands-on experiences, which is the way it should be for a group of 5 and 6-year-olds.
With the current trend being all about test scores and less about letting kids be kids, I feel it is my duty to make learning as meaningful and engaging as I can for my students, while also making it fun!
My Project
My school has adopted an amazing new play-based curriculum in Kindergarten, which includes a block of time for math centers. The cool part is that the kids are learning so many important number development math skills through playing games with a buddy or in small groups. The kids think they are just playing, but I KNOW that they learning so much. These games do require changing up the math manipulatives fairly often to keep the kids interested and engaged.
I know that my students would be thrilled to receive some new math manipulatives to learn and explore with during our daily math center time.
We will use the color and size bears for counting, sorting by attribute, and tallying. We will use the unifix cubes for making patterns, and a game that involves making stacks of cubes and giving each other directions about where to place them on a mat using position words. We will use the tangrams and geoboards for building shapes, and creating pictures with shapes on puzzle cards. We will use the bug sorting game for sorting by attribute and to strengthen our fine motor muscles. These requested items would add a little extra spark to our math center time and would be very much appreciated.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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