I teach in a Title One school with students who will come from a wide variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, including transitional housing. This will be the first organized school experience for a majority of my students. My kindergartners will be in school for a full day of kindergarten every day. This is a long day for kids that are five years old, especially if they have never had any school experience (preschool or daycare) before! I want my students to be excited to come to school everyday and to have the best experience possible!
My Project
Kindergarten is an important year of learning and exposure for these little learners! The Number Corners Calendar Kit will help my kindergartners learn math in a fun and engaging way that will hopefully translate to creating a lifelong love of learning for these students.
With this hands-on math program, kindergartners will add a new marker to the Calendar Grid for each day of the month.
Students delve into important mathematics as they identify patterns that emerge in the markers over time. Each month also features a collection of some kind—cubes, sticks, shapes, coins, or data—that serves as a springboard for representing and analyzing data, practicing counting and computation, and solving problems. Students keep track of the number of days they have been in school, which gives them the chance to explore teen numbers and then all numbers to one hundred and beyond.
This program provides ongoing practice with skills and concepts with a variety of engaging hands-on activities and games. What more could a kindergartner (and kindergarten teacher) ask for?
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