Kindergarten, Math, Week 16

Monday we practiced counting to 100 by 10s.

• I asked K. how many fingers/thumbs she has: 10
• I have 10 also
• We hit our hands together and said the next number each time we hit hands.

Tuesday we measured using Centimeters.

• I said to K. that when we measure we use inches, but in some countries they use centimeters.
• I had taken a stiff piece of paper and made a centimeter ruler. I decided to make one so that she didn't have to use a ruler with inches on one side and centimeters on the other and so it didn't show millimeters.
• I told her to pick something. She grabbed the napkin holder and measured it. 18 cm
• Then I had to find something that measured 18 cm. I tried a book and measured it.
• Then I picked something to measure and she had to find something that measured the same.
• This gave practice measuring and estimating.

Wednesday we worked with Weight.

• I got out the kitchen scale and we measured 1 pound. There were 2 tangerines and a glass with some water in it.
• Then K. flicked the "More/Less" Spinner. It landed on "Less".
• She had to find 1 thing that weighed less than 1 lb
• We measured 1 pound again. There was a saucer and a recipe book.
• Then I flicked the spinner. It landed on "More".
• I had to find 1 thing that weighed more than 1 lb.

Thursday we practiced Counting to 50 by 5s.

• It was Park Day, so on the way to the park each time we say a white car (I let K. pick the color) we counted: 5, 10, 15, 20 . . .  50.
• It was a fun way to pass the time in the car and we were counting almost the whole time we were in the car -- about 10 minutes.

Friday we played with Capacity -- Liters.

• I explained that in some countries people don't use cups/quarts/gallons, but they measure with liters.
• I showed her the liter mark on the reverse side of my 4 cup liquid measuring cup.
• Then I pulled out other containers. Some bigger, some smaller, some about the same size and asked her, one at a time, if it would hold more, less, or the same amount as the liter.
• When she wasn't sure we used water and tried it.
• After doing about 10 containers we started looking at items in the kitchen to notice and read the liter amount.