Our day full of watermelon seeds
Have you ever swallowed a watermelon seed? Do you know what happens when you swallow a watermelon seed? Come see our day on watermelons and how we explored watermelon seeds! [...]
Turn your magnet board into a graph!
The Magnet Board If you happen to have a magnet board, you might be looking for something extra you can do with it. How about turning your magnet board into [...]
How does music build STEM skills?
Songs, fingerplays, and movement activites are an important part of learning and development in young children! How does music teach STEM skills? Well before I go one step further, let's [...]
Build up your math center with SumBlox!
If you are looking for a wonderful way to build up your math center, then you should check out SumBlox! SumBlox is a unique set of number-shaped blocks that promotes different [...]
Before you plan your next preschool math lesson, read this!
Before you start planning your next preschool math lesson, take a minute and read this... In a recent Bam Radio interview titled, "Math Phobia; Repeat After Me, "I Am Good At [...]
Good morning math!
Every morning when my students come to school, we jump right into a little loose parts good morning math! What started out as a simple way for the children to [...]
Hurrah for math in preschool!
Our students love to fill their math bags with little objects from home then share them with the class. We get in all kinds of interesting math tokens to explore [...]
Exploring math with a holiday graph in pre-k
I have a nice collection of holiday trinkets that I have built up over my years of teaching and these trinkets make wonderful loose parts for play and exploration around [...]
Let’s make a pattern!
Today's invitation to make a simple pattern was connected to our recent exploration of circles...
How many things can your hands hold?
We are always using our hands to hold things so I set up an invitation to explore how many things our paper hands (or real hands) can hold at the math table.