Last week we've had awesome progress with D in Math. In fact I was not that prepared, but somehow managed to pull through and put together trays for her!
We started off by learning to tell time. We've had not done formal Montessori lessons on telling time, but D knows the basics from some of the books we read. I had originally bought a "Classroom Scheduler" thing from Target last September. At that time I wasn't sure how I was going to use it. So, I used that and cut out the clocks and set it up so that D can learn to tell time to the hour.
She caught on quickly and then proceeded to learn to tell time to half past, quarter past and quarter to. She was also very curious to know how to tell time at 5 min intervals. Since she already knew how to skip count by 5s, I put together this tray quickly, using the pumpkin picks I already had.
Till now we've been skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s, but have never used bead chains. I recently bought the short bead chains, so again, we did an impromptu lesson on bead chains for 10s and 5s.
I need to print out the proper colored arrows and set this up properly for her, so she can continue to skip count the various numbers.
She then started counting and wanted to do the hundred board and proceeded to finish that too!
This is another home-made material I made using a piece of card stock for the board. I drew grid lines 1 inch apart using a marker. I have some foam stuck on this card stock as a border and re-inforced using duct tape. For the number tiles, I used 1 inch decorative glass tiles that I purchased from Lowe's and wrote the numbers with a permanent marker. These tiles have a nice solid feel to them and they do not move!
As you've probably noticed from my previous week's post that we've also moved away from the concrete golden bead materials and into the stamp game. Since I do not have the stamp game I've used the RightStart Material Base-ten cards. We were at the point were D was feeling that the golden beads were a little too cumbersome to work with, so I introduced this and so far D is comfortable using these cards for addition, subtraction and multiplication, both static and dynamic.
I was glad that D was on a roll last week and did so much! I love to "follow the child" at these times! (wink *) We are going to be on a 2 1/2 month vacation starting Feb, visiting family abroad, so any work that gets done this month is awesome!
We started off by learning to tell time. We've had not done formal Montessori lessons on telling time, but D knows the basics from some of the books we read. I had originally bought a "Classroom Scheduler" thing from Target last September. At that time I wasn't sure how I was going to use it. So, I used that and cut out the clocks and set it up so that D can learn to tell time to the hour.
She caught on quickly and then proceeded to learn to tell time to half past, quarter past and quarter to. She was also very curious to know how to tell time at 5 min intervals. Since she already knew how to skip count by 5s, I put together this tray quickly, using the pumpkin picks I already had.
Till now we've been skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s, but have never used bead chains. I recently bought the short bead chains, so again, we did an impromptu lesson on bead chains for 10s and 5s.
I need to print out the proper colored arrows and set this up properly for her, so she can continue to skip count the various numbers.
She then started counting and wanted to do the hundred board and proceeded to finish that too!
This is another home-made material I made using a piece of card stock for the board. I drew grid lines 1 inch apart using a marker. I have some foam stuck on this card stock as a border and re-inforced using duct tape. For the number tiles, I used 1 inch decorative glass tiles that I purchased from Lowe's and wrote the numbers with a permanent marker. These tiles have a nice solid feel to them and they do not move!
As you've probably noticed from my previous week's post that we've also moved away from the concrete golden bead materials and into the stamp game. Since I do not have the stamp game I've used the RightStart Material Base-ten cards. We were at the point were D was feeling that the golden beads were a little too cumbersome to work with, so I introduced this and so far D is comfortable using these cards for addition, subtraction and multiplication, both static and dynamic.
I was glad that D was on a roll last week and did so much! I love to "follow the child" at these times! (wink *) We are going to be on a 2 1/2 month vacation starting Feb, visiting family abroad, so any work that gets done this month is awesome!
Looks like a lot of great math work! How old is D?
ReplyDeleteYes she did awesome! D just turned 5.
ReplyDeleteWhat creative ways to teach math! I would love for you to come share this post at my tray link party.
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Thanks Sierra, I've added this link!
ReplyDeleteThanks for adding the link and for sharing at WOTT! That is such a great way to use a Styrofoam circle and picks. We have Styrofoam and picks on our trays regularly (like this week!) so I will definitely do this when Boogie starts learning about time. Hope you will share again this week!
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