Birthday Cake

He is placing the candles on the cake.

She is busy adding the candles to her cake.

She is singing Happy Birthday.


At small group time each student was given a piece of play dough, rolling pin, and some crayons to use as candles. I started out by telling them that we are going to have a birthday party and they needed to help me make the birthday cake. The students then rolled our the play dough into their birthday cake and added the candles. We sang happy birthday and then the students blew out the candles. I had the student count the number of candles in their cake and asked if that was how old they were. Some students used the same number of candles as their age and others used more candles.

Content Area: Number Sense & Operations

Topics: Comparing & Ordering (Quantity) and Counting

Iowa Early Learning Standards: 11.1 - Comparison and Number

NAEYC: 2.F.02 - Children are provided varied opportunities and materials to build understanding of numbers, number names, and their relationship to object quantities and to symbols.

COR items:
B - Solving Problems With Materials
P - Singing
BB - Counting

Sorting Beads

At work time today one student picked out all of the gold beads to place onto her pipe cleaner. She told me, "I am finding all the gold ones." She then placed all the beads on her pipe cleaner and made it into a bracelet.

COR items:
S - Using Complex Patterns of Speech
Y - Sorting Attributes

Colors

She is placing her symbol in the pink row.


During planning time we are graphing the color of shirt we are wearing. Each student places their symbol on the graph next to the color that they are wearing. After they have placed their symbol on the graph they get to tell the teacher what their plan is. For example: I am going to go to the block area and build a house for the animals. At the end of the week I will have the student help me count the number of pink shirt, blue shirt, etc. to find out what color shirt we wore the most.

Content Area: Data Analysis

Topics: Interpreting & Applying, Organizing & Comparing, and Representing

COR items:
A - Making Choices and Plans
R - Using Vocabulary
S - Using Complex Patterns of Speech

Where Did You play?

There are 8 areas in our classroom.




All week long during recall time we graphed where we played. We placed a star on the graph at the area that we played.

Content Area: Data Analysis

Topics: Interpreting & Applying, Organizing & Comparing, and Representing

COR items:
BB - Counting
CC - Identifying Position and Direction

Alligator ABC

Here's a yummy M.

Whew, Glad it wasn't me.



During large group time each student gets a turn being the monkey in the tree. We then sing the rhyme:
One little monkey sitting in the tree.
Feeding the alligators ABC's.
Here's a yummy ______. Just as tasty as can be.
Snap.
Whew, Glad it wasn't me!

COR items:
V - Using letter names and sounds

How Far Can I Jump?

Picture of our graphs.

Measuring with the "feet."


During small group time we did a measurement activity. The students jumped from a starting line and then we measured how many "feet" they jumped. We had little, medium, and big feet. The students then marked how many "feet" they used to measure their jump on the graph.

Content Area: Measurement

Topics: Comparing & Ordering (Attributes), Unit, Organizing & Comparing, and Representing (Data Analysis)

COR:
L - Moving in Various Ways
Q - Listening to and Understanding Speech
AA - Comparing Properties
BB - Counting

NAEYC: 2.F.05 - Children are provided varied opportunities and materials that help them understand the concept of measurement by using standard and non-standard units of measurement.

Iowa Early Learning Standards: 11.6 - Measurement

Dot Cards and Motions

Counting the number of dots on the card.




Every day during Greeting time we count the number of dots on a card and then do a movement that number of times. For example: Touch your toes and count to 10, stand on one foot and count to 3, or 6 jumping jacks.

Content Area: Number Sense & Operations

Topic: Counting

COR items:
L - Moving in Various Ways
BB - Counting

Iowa Early Learning Standards: 11.1 - Comparison and Number