Miss Buche’s Kindergarten class has had a great start to our school year so far! We have had a great start with our curriculum and are learning so much each day. Our chromebooks have become one of our favorite tools for some extra learning opportunities. One of our favorite chromebook activities is Zearn. These math games challenge the students’ thinking and are very interactive, as well.
Another one of our favorite learning tools is using Kagan structures to learn alongside our peers. We use these various structures to learn from one another and be able to share our knowledge. So far, our favorite structures are “stand up- hand up- pair up” and “quiz-quiz-trade”. With these activities, students are up and moving around the room, learning from their peers and sharing their work.
In addition to our Kagan structures that get us up and moving, we added in some math games to get us moving and learning. We played a dice game with a partner against another pair of students. The students rolled the dice on the count of three and then compared the numbers that were rolled. The pair that got the higher number kept the big dice and the other group picked up the smaller dice. We then rolled the dice again and continued our fun! This fun math game helps the students with counting and one-to-one correspondence. It also worked on the social skills of taking turns and working together as a team.
We are off to a great start in Kindergarten and can’t wait to see where our learning takes us this year!
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