Inside a kindergarten classroom with Augustana students
As I said in my blog last week the focus this week was also on teen numbers. On Tuesday, I worked with the students with the ten frames again. They seemed to understand it a little better, but still could not fully grasp the concept. A few of them figured out that every time they [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2012 by amandajohnson09
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After working with the students for about 7 weeks now, we noticed that some students are still struggling in their number recognition. Most do just fine recognizing most numbers, but about 4 or 5 students still can’t recognize numbers higher than ten. So this week we focused on using different strategies to help the students [...]
Posted on January 20th, 2012 by amandajohnson09
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As I prepared for what I was going to work on with the students this week, I wondered how much we were going to have to review after being on such a long break. A great surprise came when hardly any review was needed. As I began pulling students out on Tuesday to work on [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2012 by amandajohnson09
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During the our last week with the kindergartners before Christmas break, Kate and I did a lot of assessment. We assessed the students on their counting abilities, number recognition, shape recognition, and more. Although these weren’t the most fun activities to do with the students, it was interesting to see how well they were doing. [...]
Posted on December 18th, 2011 by amandajohnson09
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This week during my work with the kindergartners, we split the class up into different groups to play some math games. We grouped the students by ability so students of the same or similar ability were in the same group. We also had two different activities. For the higher ability group, Kate and I created [...]
Posted on December 9th, 2011 by amandajohnson09
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This week during my work with the kindergartners we worked with the number sense iPad apps that Randy made. For most of the kids I worked with the count sort app, which is an app that lets the students practice their counting by dragging the shape to the side and counting out loud. The other [...]
Posted on December 2nd, 2011 by amandajohnson09
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