Week six - printing numbers 6-10, sets, counting, number id, and subtizing

Activities
    *SMART Board - How many?  Students count, write the number and check their answer.  Carpet friends waiting a turn will be matching sets.
    *Printing numbers 6-10 - teacher led, say poems as you guide students through the correct writing process.
    *Monster Eyes - roll, write and count the correct number of eyes
    *Roll Say Keep - Students place the cards on their board, roll and say the number, if they are correct, they get to keep the card - hope to use this as an independent game.  (after teacher led day)
    *Fire Safety Game - Here is a great article on games.  Counting on.  Parent led activity
    *Subitizing Game - Great game for quick count and taking turns.
    *Computer - 5 frame
     *iPad - Counting Race - two friends can play this game and it is a subitizing game - they look and count fast and the first one to press the correct number wins the point - the one with the most points gets to do a little fun activity.

Monday
     *iPad - Counting Race - two friends can play this game and it is a subitizing game - they look and count fast and the first one to press the correct number wins the point - the one with the most points gets to do a little fun activity.  NEW!
    *Printing numbers 6-10 - teacher led, say poems as you guide students through the correct writing process.
    *Roll Say Keep - Students place the cards on their board, roll and say the number, if they are correct, they get to keep the card - hope to use this as an independent game.  (after teacher led day)
    *Fire Safety Game - Here is a great article on games.  Counting on.  Parent led activity.  NEW!
    *Computer - 5 frame  NEW!

Tuesday
    *iPad - Counting Race - two friends can play this game and it is a subitizing game - they look and count fast and the first one to press the correct number wins the point - the one with the most points gets to do a little fun activity.
    *Printing numbers 6-10 - teacher led, say poems as you guide students through the correct writing process.
    *Roll Say Keep - Students place the cards on their board, roll and say the number, if they are correct, they get to keep the card - hope to use this as an independent game.  (after teacher led day)
     *Computer - 5 frame
    *Monster Eyes - roll, write and count the correct number of eyes.  NEW!

Wednesday
    *iPad - Counting Race - two friends can play this game and it is a subitizing game - they look and count fast and the first one to press the correct number wins the point - the one with the most points gets to do a little fun activity.
    *Printing numbers 6-10 - teacher led, say poems as you guide students through the correct writing process.
    *Roll Say Keep - Students place the cards on their board, roll and say the number, if they are correct, they get to keep the card - hope to use this as an independent game.  (after teacher led day)
     *Computer - 5 frame
    *Monster Eyes - roll, write and count the correct number of eyes

Thursday
     *iPad - Counting Race - two friends can play this game and it is a subitizing game - they look and count fast and the first one to press the correct number wins the point - the one with the most points gets to do a little fun activity.
    *Subitizing Game - Great game for quick count and taking turns. NEW!
    *Roll Say Keep - Students place the cards on their board, roll and say the number, if they are correct, they get to keep the card - hope to use this as an independent game.  (after teacher led day)
     *Computer - 5 frame
    *Monster Eyes - roll, write and count the correct number of eyes

Friday
   *iPad - Counting Race - two friends can play this game and it is a subitizing game - they look and count fast and the first one to press the correct number wins the point - the one with the most points gets to do a little fun activity.
    *Subitizing Game - Great game for quick count and taking turns.
    *SMART Board - How many?  Students count, write the number and check their answer.  Carpet friends waiting a turn will be matching sets.  NEW!
     *Computer - 5 frame
    *Monster Eyes - roll, write and count the correct number of eyes

 

 

Week 5 of 2014 - Number printing, sets, shapes, positional words

Monday
    *SMART Board - Printing Numbers    NEW  (teacher led)
    *Dump Truck Counting Mat  - pick a number and fill with duplos the correct amount
    *Mister Mouse Game - positional words - Parent led    NEW
    *Computers - Fuzz Bugs - counting, sorting, order, positional
    *iTouch - Subitizing - quick game of flash cards   NEW

Tuesday
    *SMART Board - Printing Numbers   (teacher led)
    *Dump Truck Counting Mat  - pick a number and fill with duplos the correct amount
    *Dominos - subitzing, students make their boards look the same as the domino   NEW
    *Computers - Fuzz Bugs - counting, sorting, order, positional
    *iTouch - Subitizing - quick game of flash cards   NEW

Wednesday
    *SMART Board - Printing Numbers   (teacher led)
    *Roll Say Keep - Apple roll and color the correct number    NEW
    *Dominos - subitzing, students make their boards look the same as the domino
    *Computers - Fuzz Bugs - counting, sorting, order, positional
    *iTouch - Subitizing - quick game of flash cards

Thursday
     *SMART Board - Printing Numbers   (teacher led)
    *Roll Say Keep - Apple roll and color the correct number
    *Dominos - subitzing, students make their boards look the same as the domino
    *Computers - Fuzz Bugs - counting, sorting, order, positional
    *Shape up - Parent led game    NEW

Friday
     *SMART Board - Printing Numbers   (teacher led)
    *Roll Say Keep - Apple roll and say the correct number  and keep if they know it
    *Dominos - subitzing, students make their boards look the same as the domino
    *Computers - Fuzz Bugs - counting, sorting, order, positional
    *Roll and Cover  - roll a die and color the number   NEW

Week 4 of 2014

Monday:
    *Lakeshore has this great game, this week we will work on just numbers 1-10 (the game goes up to  20)  NEW

    *Shape Book will continue - Color and glue toothpicks on a hexagon

    *Dot to Dot Cards 

    *Bingo Dots

    *Brown Bear shape roll and match - And since we were working with shapes AND finishing our Brown Bear book, here is a cute little teacher directed activity.  NEW

     *Snack and iTouch - this week I will use Nemo 123 app

Tuesday:

    *Shape Book - a Hexagon flower

    *Lakeshore counting game

    *0 - 10 Number matching game - this is a new tub I will introduce.  NEW

    *Dot to Dot cards

    *Brown Bear roll and match

    *Snack and iTouch

Wednesday

    *Shape Book - Review all shapes and poems and color review page

    *Lakeshore game on Computer

    *0 - 10 Number Matching Game

    *Parking Lot - I use my plastic boats and make it a boat yard just to keep the noise down and the cars from flying.   NEW

    *Brown Bear Roll and Match and snack

    * iTouch - dot to dot

Thursday

    *Shape Book - Review all shapes and poems and color Front page - take home

    *Lakeshore game on Computer

    *0 - 10 Number Matching Game

    *Parking Lot 

    *Brown Bear Roll and Match and Snack

    * iTouch - Ninja numbers

Friday

    *Shape Game - Carson Delosa easy great review game.  NEW

    *Fuzz Bugs - sorting, counting, ordering and positional words  NEW

    *0 - 10 Number Matching Game

    *Dump Truck numbers  NEW

    *Brown Bear Roll and Match

    *Snack and iTouch

I will add pictures as I get a chance!

I placed the word NEW by tubs that I will introduce on that day.  Instead of trying to show the students several new tubs in one day, I have found just changing out one a day makes the introduction to what we are doing today much shorter and the students remember one new one better than several new ones.  

School Year 2014-2015 Week 1-3

Welcome Back!  So sorry for the late post, but everyone knows how crazy a start to Kindergarten is AND trying to get your scedule to work.

Week 1
We started the school year with just exploration,  Tubs are set out and the students simply explore what is there.  It give them a chance to get their "play" out.  Everyone wants to run their fingers through the buttons, but if you start right with a job for them to do, it is hard to focus with their desire to just play getting in the way.  SO you fix that with "explore" time.

Here are a list of some of my math tubs:
Links
Unifix cubes
Boats (from Oriental)
Keys
Pattern Blocks
Cubes
Tiles
Seashells
Squares
Shapes
Lids
Snap Cubes
Fish
Dinosaurs
Bread ties
Pentograms
Tangrams
Buttons
Jewels
Leaves (plastic from Michaels)


I usually move the tubs the first week, but due to our schedule, I needed for the students to move.  Here is why.  I have Math at the end of my day.  We have first lunch this year so I need to fit in packing up AND snack into my schedule without loosing instructional time, so I have one table for snack and one table for packing up.  I have continued with this for two weeks, and now that I have the students trained to pack up and I have taken that out of our rotation.

Week 2
Still exploring all five days.  Six tables with activities, remember two of those table are occupied with snack and packing up.  To make the packing up table independent, I used this packing up chart and the students checked off as they completed each item.  It made it so I could float and not stay just with packers.

Week 3

Monday:

Introduced 4 new jobs, still have packing and snack as the other 2 jobs.

    *Fishy Count on Computers - Great for counting, recognizing numbers and mouse practice.

    *Geoboard numbers - just making numbers on the Geoboards using picture cards to help.

    *Pete the Cat and his groovy buttons - Draw a card and place the correct buttons on Pete

    *Shape Book - my assistant is guiding this table with glue and scissors - Today is a Square House

Tuesday:
Moved packing up to before specials, opening up an additonal math tub
    *Fishy count
    *Geoboard numbers
    *Pete the Cat
    *Shape Book - Color and glue macaroni on triangle
    *Dot to Number - Tap not splat, students roll two die, one has a color dot and the other has a number on it - students tap using bingo markers on a blank sheet of paper.  Roll again, continue until the bell rings.

Wednesday:

Early Dismissal day so I had Math first thing in the morning  - so all 6 tubs were up and running

    *Fishy Count

    *Geoboard numbers

    *Dot to Number

    *Count and Write on iTouches

    *Dot to Dot Cards - students simply write the number and connet the numbers making a picture
    *Shape Book - Triangle carrots

   
Thursday:
    *Fishy Count
    *Geoboards
    *Dot to number Bingo dots
    *Shape Book - Color and glue Q-tips on rectangle
    *Snack with Count and Write on iTouches if they finish early
    *Dot to Dot Cards


Friday
    *Fishy Count - last day of this
    *Geoboards - last day of this
    *Shape Book - Rectangle window
    *Dot ot number using Bingo dots
    *Snack with Geoboards on iTouches if they finish early