Inventory
Kindergarten is in their first Context for Learning unit: Inventory! Students have been working on organizing and collecting different classroom objects. Over the next few days, students will be revisiting their objects and be counting multiple times. Students will be investigating to find more efficient ways to count and organize their objects. By participating in a "math congress" (student-led whole class conversations where students share their work), students will learn from each other and find new ways that they can count. Some big ideas that will be developed within this CFL are 1:1 counting, counting by groups of 10, counting on, labelling, recording information, and place value. These concepts will be revisited throughout the year in our work, and students will get an opportunity to engage in their inventory again in the spring.
Some ways you can support your child at home are by:
- taking an inventory of household items
- counting on from numbers (what comes after 61?)
- looking at how items are organized (do they come in packs of 6, groups of 10?)
- COUNTING!
Some questions you can ask your child at home are:
- How many are there? How do you know?
- How can you share this information?
- What does that number look like?
- How many groups of ten are there? How many loose ones are there?
- How may more do you need to make a group of 10?
Shapes
Kindergarteners have been participating in an inquiry and investigation about shapes. They have been thinking about the rules for each shape, comparing shapes by similarities and differences, and using specific language and vocabulary to discuss shapes. Next week, we will begin our investigation into 3-dimensional shapes and how they are similar/different to 2-dimensional shapes.
Some guiding questions you can ask at home:
- What shapes do you see at home?
- How can we use shapes to create new shapes?
- What makes a shape a shape?
- I am thinking of a shape with _____ corners and ______ sides. What shape am I?