Kindergarten Math Words

             This was a bulletin board I did last January in Kindergarten.  It is titled "Math Words." Unfortunately the picture isn't better.  Included are the following words:

shapes (including  play food with labels like cube, cylinder, etc)

clock

hundred chart

whole, half, quarter

fewer, more (I put connecting cubes in see through bags)

left, right

pattern

symmetry 

number line

money

top, middle, bottom

tally marks

ten frame

equal

venn diagram

bar graph (have you ever built a snowman)

             I did this bulletin board before we did addition and subtraction but they would be easy to add; maybe with Kindergarten Crayon's Blooming Addition and Heidi Butkus' Loose Teeth Subtraction.  This would be a great end of year review of all the math concepts that had been learned.

This is Zero the Hero and Zero Lyn the Heroine on the 100th day of school.  My kiddos LOVED Zero the Hero! I really missed Zero the Hero and think my Pre-k'ers this year would have loved and "got" him ... i just don't want to be toooo pushy.

Jack and the Beanstalk Math

After reading Jack and the Beanstalk, we counted A LOT of beans. First, as a class, we counted how many beans fit in the giants hand (I just drew a large handprint and made copies of it).  After covering the hand with beans, we put the beans in piles of 10 and then counted by 10s. Then, at the project table, I traced each child's hand and then they glued  beans inside their hand and then counted how many beans they had used. Next year I will probably just use the beans to measure "how many beans tall"  the hand is.