New Math WorkStation

Here is a picture of a new Math Work Station I introduced this week. In the past we played this game with 5 chips and I noticed that we were getting bored with 5 so I increased the game to 10. The children shake ten chips in a cup and record how many are red [...]

Math Common Core Standards

I shared in a post last week, how to access the basic scope and sequence we are using in Indiana.  I created a document back in June last year that I carry with me everywhere to help me wrap my head around what I’m supposed to teach when.  When I created this document, we (I) [...]

Kathy Richardson’s New Book (Review)

I’ve just finished reading Kathy Richardson’s new book (I wrote about it in my last post) and I have to say I love it!  When I look at the current Common Core standards for Math, the idea of making my K students master addition and subtraction facts to five floors me!  It is not a [...]

Kathy Richardson’s New Book

I received a copy of Kathy Richardson’s new book this week in the mail from the nice folks at Math Perspectives.  It is titled: “How Children Learn Number Concepts: A Guide to the Critical Learning Phases”.  You can order it now!  I love their website and visit it often for ideas on using the Math [...]

Math Work Stations Organization

I’m in a mood to organize things lately…I like to start getting things cleaned up near the end of the year so that my new year will be uncluttered and happy!  Ask me how that’s going the 2nd week of January!!   I came up with a way to organize my Math Work Station materials [...]

Math Common Core Standards

For the last day and a half, I’ve been attending workshops about the new national common core standards for math.  In our state (IN), Kindergarten will be implementing them in the 2011-2012 school year and a grade will be added every year there after for the next few years. This caused us to have to [...]

Stack, Tell, Spin, & Win

We’ve been playing this game to help us learn about more and less than.  It’s from the Math Their Way book and also the Developing Number Concept book by Kathy Richardson. Basically, the children start with 10 cubes (or 20 if you want to make it harder, 5 if you want it to be easier).  [...]

Math Tubs

We’ve been spending the first three weeks of school exploring the new math materials (we just adopted MTW again and got all new materials).  Here are some pictures to show our new materials and the kids exploring them.

The Winter Olympics

Will you be teaching about the Winter Olympics?  We will be!!  All day my team brainstormed ideas; we wanted to do outdoor Olympics, indoor Olympics, and we just kept getting crazier and crazier!! Finally, as I was talking with my assistant, we both had this idea to bring our Wii’s to school in a few [...]

The Gingerbread Man 2009

Here is a look at what we have been doing during December. I know this is a rather short post, but you will see below where you can get more ideas!  BTW, if you like the idea of doing this with your own class room, I am putting a button on my Kristen’s Kindergarten Store [...]