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Hi guys! Today I wanted to share with you my favourite lessons and resources for teaching sorting in Kindergarten! LESSONS: First of all here are my plans for sorting: You can click on the image above to download the plans in PDF for easy printing! On Day 1, I introduce our learning goal for sorting and define sorting: Then we practice sorting by colour! I prepare a bag of items and have the students sort them into hoola hoops. After the lesson I transferred them onto canvas to display as part of our sorting resource wall. I happened to have these canvases lying around but I know canvas is expensive so if you don't have canvases I would just use cardboard cut to size! On Day 2, we reviewed the learning goal and then practice sorting by shape. We sorted the shape buttons as a group and then transferred them onto the canvases again to put on our sorting wall. On Day 3, we reviewed the learning goal and then practiced sorting by size. We sorted these pom poms by size and then transferred them onto the canvases again to put on our sorting wall. On Day 4, we introduced how we can sort in a variety of ways (not just colour, shape and size). We read the book "Sort It Out" by Barbara Mariconda and talked about all the ways Packy (the mouse in the story) sorted his stuff. On Day 5, we reviewed the learning goal and talked about why we learn to sort and when we use this skill in our life. We talked about how we sort items in our classroom to help us find things easier and how things are sorted in the grocery store to help us find what we want easier too. At the end of our unit our sorting reference wall looks like this: When students sort items and can tell me their sorting rule, I take a picture and put it as an example under "I can sort things and say my sorting rule." CENTRES: And here are some of the centres that we put out for the students to explore sorting: 1. SORTING BUTTONS Student make a sorting rule and sort them into the fruit cup containers. I add tweezers for extra fine motor practice! 2. SORTING BEADS I have the students sort the beads by colour. I add the tongs for extra fine motor practice! And if they use their finger, the small beads encourages them to use a pincer grip. 3. SORTING POM POMS Sorting is awesome because you can literally sort anything! I love this bag of pom poms because there are different sizes. This way the kids can sort by size or colour! 4. SORTING LETTERS I spread my home made tactile letters out around a bin of magnetic letters and encouraged the students to sort by letter. An easy way to integrate literacy and math :) 5. SORTING NUMBERS Then I did the same thing with number magnets! 6. SORTING COUNTING BEARS When we first start sorting I put these sorting mats out to give those kids that need it more support. 7. SORTING PATTERN BLOCKS I have these mats as well that asks the students to sort the pattern blocks by shape too! You can find both mats (and many more) by clicking here. 8. SORTING A VARIETY OF MATERIALS After the students are familiar with sorting I start to set out multiple materials at a sorting centre and have the kids come up with different ways that they can sort the items! Here is an example: SMARTBOARD: And here are some of my favourite interactive sorting games that you can put on your SMARTBoard! My kids always love Fuzz Bugs! This game works on sorting by colour and other math skills like 1:1 correspondance and working on math vocabulary like most and least. This and That Sort It Shop is another great one because it practices sorting by a variety of rules such as short vs. tall or 4 legs vs. 2 legs (as pictured above). Flo & Zo Sort It Out! has sorting by colour, shape, pattern etc! iPAD APPS: Here are also some apps that you can put on your iPad to give students with more practice with sorting at centre time! You can find them all in the App Store! I hope you are able to use some of these ideas/resources in your classroom! What is your favourite activity or resource for teaching sorting? Talk to you soon! - Yukari Added 08.10.20: You can find my updated lesson plans for sorting and all of my sorting mats here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sorting-for-Kindergarten-Lesson-Plans-Hands-on-Centres-1448204 or by clicking on the images below: And I also now have a digital version! You can find these Google Slides here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Digital-Math-for-Kindergarten-Sorting-Google-Slides-6190392 or by clicking on the images below:
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I have a confession, number lines are not my favorite tools for adding and subtracting with my young learners. I always teach how to use them, but I don't spend very much time on them. My main issue is that, students will not always have access to a number line. I don't want them dependent on a tool that they may or may not be able to get their hands on. However, after doing a bit of research about some of the additional benefits of number line learning, I started to rethink my feelings about them. Besides solving basic addition and subtraction equations, familiarity with number lines helps students as they work with all sorts of other math tools. Graphs, thermometers, clocks, and rulers all include number lines. Not only can our work counting forward and backward on a number line help us to add and subtract, it can also lay the group work for upcoming mathematical concepts. Since I had a change of heart about the importance of number lines, I decided to devote more time to them this year. Here are a couple of quick activities I used with my students that they really enjoyed. First up is our Life-Size Number Line. I used this big number line for a whole group activity, but you can easily adapt it for a small group or center activity. I created it by printing the numbers 1-20 and laminating them. I made my line with some masking tape and then placed the numbers on top. The line wasn't straight and the numbers were't perfectly spaced, but that didn't matter at all. I made several slides for our interactive white board with basic addition and subtraction equations. (A regular white board will work just as well.) Students came to the number line individually. They read the equation to the class and then they solved it on the number line. They loved it so much that I used it with them the next day to solve word problems. (one prep and two activities #forthewin) Not only did the kids love it, I really liked using the Life-Size Number Line because it was an easy way to make sure students understood how to correctly move the number line. If you would like to use this activity with your students, click on the picture below for a free copy of the Life-Size Number Line . Another number line activity I incorporated was a quick and easy number line game. (I'm always looking for ways to use my Target Dollar Spot erasers and this activity was perfect.) All you need are some kind of game pieces, a number line, and a spinner (if you don't have a spinner, just use a paper clip and a pencil). This game works well with two to three players. To play, students take turns spinning. If a student lands on plus five, he moves his game piece forward five spaces. If he spins minus two, he moves his piece back two spaces. The game continues until the first player reaches the end of the number line. This activity was wonderful practice for students counting on and counting back. Since we've covered addition and are nearing the end of our subtraction unit, the Number Line Spinner game gave students a chance to begin mixing their facts. I plan on adding this game to our Early Finishers menu since the rules are so simple and there are so few pieces. If you'd like a FREE copy of this my Number Line Spinner game, click on the picture below. There you have it, two simple ways to add a little more variety to your number line routine. Thank you so much for stopping by. Happy teaching!
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Hi guys! Today I wanted to share with you my favourite lessons and resources for teaching sorting in Kindergarten! LESSONS: First of all here are my plans for sorting: You can click on the image above to download the plans in PDF for easy printing! On Day 1, I introduce our learning goal for sorting and define sorting: Then we practice sorting by colour! I prepare a bag of items and have the students sort them into hoola hoops. After the lesson I transferred them onto canvas to display as part of our sorting resource wall. I happened to have these canvases lying around but I know canvas is expensive so if you don't have canvases I would just use cardboard cut to size! On Day 2, we reviewed the learning goal and then practice sorting by shape. We sorted the shape buttons as a group and then transferred them onto the canvases again to put on our sorting wall. On Day 3, we reviewed the learning goal and then practiced sorting by size. We sorted these pom poms by size and then transferred them onto the canvases again to put on our sorting wall. On Day 4, we introduced how we can sort in a variety of ways (not just colour, shape and size). We read the book "Sort It Out" by Barbara Mariconda and talked about all the ways Packy (the mouse in the story) sorted his stuff. On Day 5, we reviewed the learning goal and talked about why we learn to sort and when we use this skill in our life. We talked about how we sort items in our classroom to help us find things easier and how things are sorted in the grocery store to help us find what we want easier too. At the end of our unit our sorting reference wall looks like this: When students sort items and can tell me their sorting rule, I take a picture and put it as an example under "I can sort things and say my sorting rule." CENTRES: And here are some of the centres that we put out for the students to explore sorting: 1. SORTING BUTTONS Student make a sorting rule and sort them into the fruit cup containers. I add tweezers for extra fine motor practice! 2. SORTING BEADS I have the students sort the beads by colour. I add the tongs for extra fine motor practice! And if they use their finger, the small beads encourages them to use a pincer grip. 3. SORTING POM POMS Sorting is awesome because you can literally sort anything! I love this bag of pom poms because there are different sizes. This way the kids can sort by size or colour! 4. SORTING LETTERS I spread my home made tactile letters out around a bin of magnetic letters and encouraged the students to sort by letter. An easy way to integrate literacy and math :) 5. SORTING NUMBERS Then I did the same thing with number magnets! 6. SORTING COUNTING BEARS When we first start sorting I put these sorting mats out to give those kids that need it more support. 7. SORTING PATTERN BLOCKS I have these mats as well that asks the students to sort the pattern blocks by shape too! You can find both mats (and many more) by clicking here. 8. SORTING A VARIETY OF MATERIALS After the students are familiar with sorting I start to set out multiple materials at a sorting centre and have the kids come up with different ways that they can sort the items! Here is an example: SMARTBOARD: And here are some of my favourite interactive sorting games that you can put on your SMARTBoard! My kids always love Fuzz Bugs! This game works on sorting by colour and other math skills like 1:1 correspondance and working on math vocabulary like most and least. This and That Sort It Shop is another great one because it practices sorting by a variety of rules such as short vs. tall or 4 legs vs. 2 legs (as pictured above). Flo & Zo Sort It Out! has sorting by colour, shape, pattern etc! iPAD APPS: Here are also some apps that you can put on your iPad to give students with more practice with sorting at centre time! You can find them all in the App Store! I hope you are able to use some of these ideas/resources in your classroom! What is your favourite activity or resource for teaching sorting? Talk to you soon! - Yukari Added 08.10.20: You can find my updated lesson plans for sorting and all of my sorting mats here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sorting-for-Kindergarten-Lesson-Plans-Hands-on-Centres-1448204 or by clicking on the images below: And I also now have a digital version! You can find these Google Slides here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Digital-Math-for-Kindergarten-Sorting-Google-Slides-6190392 or by clicking on the images below:
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KINDERGARTEN MATH - UNIT 3 I am so excited to have my new Measurement and Data kindergarten math unit posted and ready to share with you. So far this year, my sweet kinders have learned so much in math. We have mastered 1:1 correspondence, reading and writing numerals to 20, counting to 10
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Hi friends! I'm here to share with you how I taught patterning to my class this year! Click here to see what I did last year. Here is what I planned for whole group lessons: Click on the image above to download my unit plan from google drive. On the first day we introduced patterning and we created this anchor chart with bingo dabbers. On the second day we watched a patterning video "The Bunny Goes Hop" by Harry Kindergarten (my favourite video for patterning!) and we played the game Mystery Patterns! I would call students up and put them in a pattern. Then I let the students guess what my pattern is! I start with something easy like boy, girl, boy, girl to start and slowly make it more difficult if they are having success with identifying the pattern :) On the third day I taught them how to play the game Fuzz Bugs Patterns on the SMARTBoard. On the fourth day we watched "The Patterns Practice Song" by Scratch Garden on YouTube and learned that we can make number and shape patterns in addition to the colour patterns we have been talking about. On the fifth day we went through the "Patterns In Our Life" PowerPoint and talked about patterns in our daily lives. You can find this PowerPoint in "Patterning for Kindergarten: Centres, Printables and More" on TPT. And on the sixth day we completed this "What's Missing?" chart! The students had to tell me what needs to go in the blank spot and name the pattern. I got this idea from Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten. Here are some centres we had out so that the students could explore patterning: At this centre I set out 4 different colours of play dough and the students practiced making AB, AAB, ABC and ABCD patterns. At this centre I bingo dabbed some sentence strips with orange, purple and green bingo dabbers and then put out these glitter pumpkins for the kids to reproduce and extend patterns. I set out pom poms, ice cube trays and tongs for the students to create patterns by color or size. We also used these pattern block pattern cards to practice reproducing and extending patterns. We also incorporated some fine motor practice by making a ball of play dough, sticking a pipe cleaner in it and then threading pony beads through it to make patterns. I asked the students to use 2 hands at first and then to try threading it with 1 hand for a challenge. We also had Pattern Match from Turtle Diary on the SMARTBoard as a centre choice for a few days. In small groups the kids made these little pattern books with my ECE. We used bingo dabbers on the first day, shape stamps on the second day, stamper markers on the third day, And stickers on the fourth day. You can find this pattern book, the play dough pattern mats and the pattern block cards in my patterning unit "Patterning for Kindergarten: Centres, Printables and More" on TPT. Click here or on the images below if you are interested in taking a look! Some students also worked with me to create a reference wall for patterning. We had AB, ABB, ABC and other for the headings. If the students made an "other" pattern they also had to write a sentence and tell me what the name of their pattern was for it to go on the wall. This little guy made an AABBCC pattern! We used these sentence cards that we added to our math tool board to help us write sentences about the patterns we made. That's it from me! I hope you were able to get some new ideas for patterning! What fun things do you do when you teach patterning? _______________________________________ Added 08.10.21 I now have a digital patterning unit! Click here or on any of the images below for more details:
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