Kindergarten, Math, Week 23

Monday we played with Estimating Capacity

• Over the weekend we had purchased one of those "milk cartons" of Whoppers, so I decided it would be fun to use them.
• I poured the Whoppers into a bowl, then I pulled different sizes of empty containers out of the cupboards: Will the Whoppers fit into this container?
• I let K. guess, then we poured the Whoppers into the container to see if her estimate was right.
• After doing that 5 - 10 times and she was estimating correctly, I told K. to find 1 container that the Whoppers would NOT all fit in and one container they would all fit in.
• I had planned on stopping with that, but she wanted me to find 2 also, and to do it a couple more times. Then she was tired of it and we quit.

Tuesday we were on Number Patterns

• Game: Spin a Number, see Math, Week 21 for instructions

Wednesday we practiced Counting On

• Game: Grasshopper, see Math, Week 19 for instructions

Thursday we worked with Graphs

• This time we were making a bar graph to compare two things.
• My original plan had been to count things at two different grocery stores, such as, kinds of apples, blue cars in the parking lot, flavors of jam, brands of margarine, kinds of cheese, brands of crispy riced cereal. However, K. wasn't able to go to the grocery store with me, so I came up with plan B.
• I took two patriotic Ideals magazines and we looked for the
• flags
• statues
• fireworks
• liberty bells
• K. used one color for the first magazine and another color for the second magazine.
• We ended up with this chart:

Friday we worked on Place Value

• Game: Fifty Wins, see Math, Week 20 for instructions