We had a wonderful to start our week with our Open Area friends, doing Yoga. We also spent the morning doing guided reading and math. In math we are continuing to explore number sense and the concept of subatizing. Subatizing is the ability to look at an arrangement of objects and determine the number without counting. This skill will helps us to visualize numbers when we begin to add them together. We have played several games and used the iPads to help reinforce this concept.
We also played "many ways," which was an activity where Mrs. K have us markers, giant sheets of chart paper, and loose parts, and asked us to show the number '5' in as many ways as we could. We had so many ideas!! Some wrote the word "five," others showed it on money, a clock face, candles of a birthday cake, a hand, and others arranged the loose parts to show five in 2 parts (2 and 3, 4 and 1, etc).
In the afternoon, we head out into the forest for Outdoor Learning. We had lots of time for free play, and then we gathered at the story log to look at a book about all the wonderful things you can make with just a pile of leaves. In keeping with our theme of "taking a closer look at the forest," we gathered several items from the forest floor to create land art with a forest buddy. Many of us had stories to share about our art. Ella created a camping scene with a tent and stars, while Henry created a Pickachu.
