Inside a kindergarten classroom with Augustana students
This week in Number Sense we incorporated the week’s math focus into our work with the students. The week’s focus was centered on the numbers 11-20 (writing and creating ten frames). For many weeks the students have been able to count past 20. I was a little surprised to discover that while the students knew [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2013 by abbeywilson10
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Since we only had Monday and Wednesday to work with the kindergartners, we really made sure we got down to business. The main focus for these days was to spend some extra time with the students that were struggling with simple number sense skills, like counting up to 20 and recognizing numbers. First we worked [...]
Posted on January 22nd, 2013 by amandakriegl10
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This week in Number Sense Morgan and I started investigating what students can do and what the students still need to work on. We investigated this idea further, by wondering how students are looking at numbers, patterns, greater or less, etc.
Posted on January 21st, 2013 by courtneybielis09
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This week one of the math skills our cooperating teachers was having the students work on is the concept of one more and one less. Almost all of our students are able to answer quickly and correctly when asked questions such as, “What is one more than 5?” or “What is two less than 8?” [...]
Posted on January 21st, 2013 by stephanielorr10
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This week we spent a lot of time working with our students who are still struggling with our initial number sense concepts. We have a couple of students who are still only able to count to 10. When it comes to 11-20, they get confused and will mix the numbers up or skip them all [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2013 by markayesemmens10
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This week, I had a very successful couple of days with a student who I have been struggling to connect with. This student has been struggling with several aspects of number sense. I have realized in past weeks of working with her that she functions best in a game-like setting. My goal this week was [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2013 by abbeywilson10
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After our nice, long, relaxing break it was great to be reunited with Mrs. Peterson’s kindergartners; I was almost excited to see them as they were to see me! Our overall focus for this week was to do more with Randy’s different apps by incorporating them into our lessons. The 11 apps were split between [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2013 by amandakriegl10
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Christmas break was wonderful. I got to spend time with my family and then I went to Jamaica and taught at the Alpha Boys School.Unfortunately, Christmas break is over and it is time to get back to work. My students were all really excited to see me and I was really excited to see them. [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2013 by amandacash10
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It was the first week back from Christmas break and I was so excited to see the students and begin working with all of them in math again. On Tuesday Morgan and I asked Mrs. Peterson if she had any specific goals in mind that we can work towards achieving when working with the students. [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2013 by courtneybielis09
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When I returned from the holiday break, I was curious to see whether the students I had been working with the past 5 weeks would retain the information. After working with the kindergarten students this past week, I discovered that the students not only remembered the content and skills previously taught, but also developed further [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2013 by AmyKnourek10
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