Five for Friday: December 18
We made it! Happy Winter Break 2015!! I’m sharing some of my last week before winter break activities and linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five for Friday linky!
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Four 2D Shape Interventions for FDK
Hi friends! Today I’m going to share a few things I did in terms of interventions for 2D shapes. I like starting with 2D shapes because it seems to be an easy concept for most students and knowledge of 2D shapes is needed for strands like patterning, sorting etc. However there will always be some…
Teaching Length in FDK
Hi friends! Today I’m going to post about how I taught measuring length this year. As always here is the unit plan and lessons outlined for easy planning if you want to follow along with my lessons! Click on the image to download it as a pdf for free! I always start my measurement unit…
Five for Friday: October 30
Hi! I’m here to link up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching and share 5 random things from this week! At the beginning of the week we had the students guess what we (the teachers) were going to be for Halloween. I got this idea from Molly’s Instagram (@misskslittlerays). The kids had a blast!! And…
Teaching Patterning in FDK – Part 2
Hi friends! I’m here to share with you how I taught patterning to my class this year! Click here to see what I did last year. Here is what I planned for whole group lessons: Click on the image above to download my unit plan from google drive. On the first day we introduced patterning…
Teaching 2D Shapes in FDK – Part 2
Hey hey! We have been knee deep in all things 2D shapes these past few weeks! I blogged about this topic in the past but wanted to share some of the new things I did this year. If you would like to see my post from last year you can click here. Here is an…
Teaching Money in FDK
Today I’m popping in to talk about all the money fun we have been having in our class lately! The FDK expectation for money is.. NS1.10 explore different Canadian coins, using coin manipulatives First we started by watching the song Canada in My Pocket by Michael Mitchell. Then we used my coin posters to learn the…
Teaching Decomposing Numbers in FDK
I feel like I haven’t posted about math in so long! I have been teaching math, I promise! 😉 Last week we started decomposing numbers. I started by telling them the learning goal “We are learning to decompose numbers” and then explained that decompose means to take apart. Our success criteria is “I know I…
Five for Friday: January 9
I’m linking up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching to share five things from my week! Brrr it was COLD this week! We were at almost at -30 with the wind chill on Wednesday! Since we couldn’t go outside to play in the snow my ECE had them play with these “snowballs” instead! They turned…
Teaching Measurement in FDK
This month we worked on measurement! The FDK expectation that we focused on was: M2.1 compare and order two or more objects according to an appropriate measure (e.g., length, mass, area, temperature, capacity) and use measurement terms (e.g., hot/cold for temperature, small/medium/large for capacity, longer/shorter or thicker/thinner for length). Here is our math wall at…
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