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CLASSROOM ROUTINE EXTENSION - TODAY'S QUESTION Today's Question is a daily calendar routine in my classroom. We begin the year with the format in the book. As the year progresses I use the routine in a variety of ways. * I use name cards so that the children can recognize their own and their classmates names. * I include the words true/false under yes/no because these words are part of a reasoning/writing program in first grade. * I chart answers in a three pocket chart and the third column lets us know who is absent by whose cards aren't moved. *I develop questions that will introduce an area of discovery or review facts already introduced such as the following: 1. Does a spider have eight legs? 2. Do you think fish travel in schools? 3. Are bats mammals? 4. Can flying squirrels really fly? 5. Does water freeze? *Additional questions I might ask are as follows: 1. Is your birthday in the month of January, February, etc. on the first day of the month. 2. Is your birthday in the season of summer, fall, winter, spring? 3. Is your hair brown, black , etc.? 4. Do you have an innie or outie bellybutton? (This would be the question for 2 days and then we compare the answers for both days.) 5. Do you have a baby in your house? 6. Do you eat vegetables? Do you eat broccoli, corn, beans, peas, etc.? (These questions can be tied into a nutrition/health unit.) Make vegetable soup with vegetables you've talked about. 7. Do you eat pudding? (This can be tied into a science lesson about simple machines when you use an eggbeater to make pudding.) 8. Does a kangaroo have a pouch? (This would be a question to use with the letter "k" with the poem "Ten Baby Kangaroos" and cooking Krispie Krunchies.) Recipe, Mix peanut butter and honey until smooth-you can add a little milk if it's too sticky. Add rice krispie type cereal and roll into balls or logs and eat. Ties in well when talking about Australia and reading "Alexander and the No Good Very Bad Day". 9. Is there a star inside an apple? Use the story about the star in the apple, taste different kinds of apples and graph the results, make paper apples and write the letter "a" on them, etc. 10. Do you eat ice cream? Serve ice cream cones of different flavors, and graph the results with paper cones, it makes a great oversized graph for a wall. |
| Name: | Nora L. Bargo | |
| Email: | jbargo@wi.rr.com | |
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MORE CLASSROOM ROUTINE EXTENSIONS - PATTERNS ON THE POCKET CHART Patterns on the pocket chart is a daily calendar routine in my room. I begin this routine on the first day of school with a Hundred Number Wall Chart with the numbers from 1-100 in it. The odd numbers are written in black, the even in red, and the 5's and 10's in blue. The numbers are turned over each day to reveal the next number and then we predict what the next day's number will be. The number that is generated is also displayed in a ones, tens, and hundreds chart. I also create a pattern with math links that hangs on the calendar board and create a pattern with color tiles in a second 100's chart. I am careful not to use the word pattern until it is generated by the children and it always is. MORE CLASSROOM ROUTINE EXTENSIONS - CALENDAR Calendar is done daily in my room and is a great place to do Investigations. Calendar includes daily the classroom routines of attendance, patterns, calendar, counting jar, and today's question. * For attendance I use a pocket chart with name cards with the headings hot lunch/cold lunch. It lets us know who is here/not here, lunch count and name/letter recognition practice. I also use two attendance sticks, one with numbers on it and one without and place them on top of each other to compare who is here and who is not. It also gives them a visual number line for counting backwards. * We keep track of each day with coins, as an introduction to them and their value; it provides counting practice, counting on, etc. I teach them a chant I call the "Coin Rock and Roll", a penny is one, a nickel five, a dime is ten, a quarter twenty-five, a half-dollar is 50 cents don't you know, listen again to the Coin Rock and RolL. (Just click your fingers and keep a beat for them.) * When a child has a birthday later in the year and the children have developed some number combinations, we play with their ages. Generally, they are turning six, so I ask them if they are 33 years old and I say 3+3=6, and it just takes off from there. They are able to generate all the combinations of 6 on their own. |
| Name: | Amy Shea | |
| Email: | bshea21126@aol.com | |
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I went through my personal library and typed up a list of books I have used
which relate to topics in "Mathematical Thinking at Kindergarten".
NUMBERS AND COUNTING One is Mouse, Jonathan and Lisa Hunt, Trumpet Ten Little Rabbits, Virginia Grossman, Trumpet The Icky Bug Counting Book, Jerry Pallotta, Trumpet Each Orange Had 8 Slices, Paul Giganti, Jr., Trumpet How Many Snails?, Paul Giganti, Jr., Trumpet Ten Black Dots, Donald Crews, Scholastic The Gummy Candy Counting Book, Amy Hutchings, Scholastic Mortimer Mooner Makes Lunch, Frank B. Edwards, Bungalo Books Feast for Ten, Cathryn Falwell, Scholastic Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On, Lois Ehlert, Scholastic Way Out in the Desert, T.J. Marsh, Rising Moon Pub. So Many Bunnies: A Bedtime ABC and Counting Book, Rick Walton, Scholastic What Comes in 2's, 3's, and 4's?, Suzanne Aker, Simon & Schuster Inc. Bat Jamboree, Kathi Appelt, Scholastic Ten Sly Pirahnas: A Counting Story in Reverse, Victoria Chess, Scholastic Elevator Magic, Stuart J. Murphy, Scholastic The Cheerios Counting Book, Barbara Barbieri McGrath The Giraffe Numbers Book, Gene Yates, Kids Books Inc. CALENDAR AND TIME Cookie's Week, Cindy Ward, Scholastic Wednesday is Spaghetti Day, Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Scholastic Nine O'Clock Lullaby, Marilyn Singer, Scholastic 8 0'Cluck, Jill Creighton, Scholastic BOOKS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS USING PATTERNS A Pair of Socks, Stuart J. Murphy, Scholastic |