Math Stations

The kindies are hard at work on using a fun math game called "extending number train" to solve addition problems in a concrete way. We know that if we have 7, we show the number using unifix cubes. If we roll the dice that says "+2" then we add two more cubes and see that now we have 8! Friends take turns writing the equation and adding cubes to the growing train until they get to 20.

We are also exploring with length. We now know that the correct way to measure two objects are lining them up "bottom to bottom". That's our rule! We measured ourselves from our feet to our heads using string. Once we were all measured out, we ordered friends in the class from shortest to tallest! Can you guess who was the tallest in our class? Ask your kindie who they think….

 
 
 
 

Then we used our string to find things in the classroom that were COMPARABLE to our height. "Miss Leone is as tall as 5 rectangles on our rug". "__________ is as tall as the length of the pink table." "________ is as tall as 3 1/2  floor tiles."