In math, we will be starting the number of the week activity! Each student has their own activity sheet that they will fill in with our chosen number of the week. There are 5 sections to fill in: the written number, tally marks, a ten frame, a number line, and finally, a picture to represent the number (like in the Défi math game, Mystero). Today, we chose the number 5, and everyone did SO well filling in their activity sheet independently.
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Here, we are working on many math skills such as counting, number recognition, one to one correspondence and subitizing. We worked in groups of two, taking turns to choose a number and placing the correct amount of tiles in square.
You've probably heard of Mr 5, or Mr 4 or even Mr 3. These are picky eaters that will only eat if their plate of food has a specific number of pieces on it. We've made special plates of food for these picky eaters before, but this time, we made our very own book of possible options. Each student chose a number and made a book according to the number they chose. Once they were satisfied with the amount of plates they created, I stapled it all up for them and we went through the book to write the addition equations on each page to make sure they were correct!
The fun game is played in small groups using one bowl and a set of marbles (between 2 and 9). The objective is to guess how many marbles are hiding under the bowl, we always know how many marbles we started with. This game helps develop awareness of addition, and number concepts. When we do it as a whole group, I write down the math phrase to. This is a popular activity because marbles are quite fun and exciting to use!
Today, the students heard the story of Mr 5 and how he is SOOOOO picky. His plate of food can only have five pieces of food on it, otherwise, he'll send it back. So today, our mission was to create a menu that would satisfy Mr 5.
Each of the students chose whether they wanted to create a main course menu or dessert menu, they got their own plate and got to work! They thought of as many combinations as possible with two food items and not more than 5 pieces on the plate. They did very well decomposing the number 5! This mini lesson about fractions is not part of the usual term 1 JK math curriculum. A few other steps come before we begin learning about fractions. However...one of these little guys was quite interested in the fraction circles and wanted to learn about them, so why not. Fractions can be found everywhere and so cookies is how we made fractions relevant to us. We discussed a few scenarios where we had one cookie and 1, 2, 3 or 4 friends to share with. After a little discussion and modelling using the fraction circles, the students explored with the circles, independently. Thanks for inspiring this mini lesson, Mr. C. |
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