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.
High five for hands!
I made up a little high five game on our clip boards for the children to try. My goal was to encourage the children to explore a little counting in the process and it worked out fabulously! Read all about it on my blog!
Designing with Qtips on the math table
I love offering the children everyday, simple things, like Qtips, to design and create with. I always hope that by supplying the children common household products, they might even be inspired to try the activities at home.
Raindrop graphing on the flannel board
The flannel board is such a great teaching tool when you think outside the box a bit. This week, we turned the flannel board into a raindrop measuring graph!
At play on the math table
As each new school year comes around, I add a little something here and there to spruce up the learning environment and to give me a little new inspiration in [...]
Dominoes on the tinker table
Dominoes are a wonderful tool for play and I have a collection of dominoes that I pull out every school year for the children to explore. On this particular day, the children spent time tinkering with dominoes on our tinker table...
More with math bags
Over the past four years, I have blogged off and on about our math bags so I thought I would bring a little update to our use of the math [...]
Learning with lids in preschool
Lids are a wonderful resource to invite all kinds of early learning and development. We spent the day learning with LOTS of lids in our preschool classroom!
Popsicle patterns, lines, and designs in preschool
Stop on by and check out our exploration of popsicle patterns, lines, and designs in our preschool classroom!
Colorful fun with musical notes
As part of our unit on xylophones, we invited the children to explore some simple and colorful fun with musical notes.