Three-Dimensional Shapes

Over the last few weeks, my kindergartners have been learning about Three-Dimensional shape. Here are some of our favorite stations.

Making a Town Using Three-Dimensional Shapes

My students LOVED working with a friend and creating a part of the town. At large group time, we brainstormed what we needed to have in our town.

Students made little signs and will soon be making maps of the town. We will also learn about creating and giving directions. I hope to have my students create an anchor chart of meaningful words we can use. We will continue to add to this!

Guess My Secret Rule (Silent Math)

During this lesson, the teacher begins to sort shapes into a pile. 

It is called Silent Math Time because no one can talk, including the teacher! 

Students will be called on silently.  If a shape belongs it stays in the pile, but if the shape does not belong, the teacher will move it out.  When the game is over, the teacher will talk. 

"Okay class, who can tell me what the secret rule is?"

Shape Shadows

What kind of shadow will a cylinder make?

It was a little tricky to use a flashlight to see the shadows of the figures. But a

colleague suggested we put it in the natural sunlight. The kids were amazed!!

Guess My Shape

One child is IT and takes an object out of the first bag and puts it in the second bag.
We started the game with a cylinder, cone, sphere and the cube.

The person who is IT gives two clues about the shape.

I have a circle face.

I have a point.
What shape am I?

The children playing the game,
circle (on the recording sheet below) what shape they think it is.
The sheet allows them to play four rounds.

 We first started playing this game with four shapes and added two more.
After playing this game many times, the person who is IT can record their clues.

Recording Sheets

 click here for GUESS MY SHAPE RECORDING SHEET

Which Is Taller?

Students compared different 3-D objects in the classroom focusing on <, > symbols.

Anchor Chart

During interactive writing time, we recorded our observations about the 

 three dimension shapes. 

We made illustrations of real world objects.

My 3-D shape book 

My 

Vocabulary Chart

I saw this chart in Debbie Diller's Math Work Station book and I love it!

This chart is a very helpful tool for my students.

click here for Vertices sheet 

Shape Hunt

We went on a shape hunt looking for three-dimensional shapes in our environment. We took photos with our class I PADs and made a slideshow with Haiku Deck.

3 Dimensional Shapes - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires




Sources: Think Math
              Debbie Diller Math Work Stations

Addition Number Designs

Happy March! I hope it starts to get warmer soon.  I can't take this cold weather any longer.Today's Monday math post will be focusing on the math game called Number Designs. 

For this math game, students will be making number arrangements using colored titles. Students should be encouraged to make as many number designs as they can. I think it helps to have them use the same color tile. 

Above the student were making number arrangements using the number 8. You can assign students different numbers according to their needs. 

Quick Reflection 

For years,  I taught this math game called Six Tiles that is Number Arrangements using six tiles.  I knew we were creating designs using colored tiles and having students make arrangements with sides having to touch (no corners): but I didn't know why we taught this lesson. The math manual didn't  get into the why. The students were not encouraged to make number sentences. 

I recently took a workshop focusing on Kathy Richardson's math assessments/games, and we had a great conversation about this game. 

We played the game and talked about how this game is about subitizing. This game gives the student practice in creating and describing the parts of a number. Student's also used symbols to label the parts. Now when I teach this game, I start with the rug, creating some number arrangements together. The only rule is that the tiles have to touch in any way. 

As a group, we talk about the different number combinations we saw. The first part of creating and talking about each design was very much like a Quick Image(without flashing an image). Below you, can we labeled the combination 5+8 but some kids saw 2+2+4. It was important to let the children share their thinking before they worked independently. 

The last step is recording the arrangements.
Below you can find a book for your students to record their work. 
My students recorded their tile combinations and labeled with a number sentence. 

{little hands like little things}

click here for Number Design Book 

The Bean Adding Game

This is an easy game to play. 

All you need, is a number line, dice and a recording sheet. 

You can use beans or pennies.

directions to bean adding game 

recording sheet 

When students have played a few times, you could

have them record the number rolls.

How can I differentiate instruction?

You could let students add or subtract the dice.

Patterns

I have two magnificent math books to share with you!  I LOVE both these books about patterns and the kids LOVE them too. My students couldn't wait to create their own pattern creature. During shared writing time we wrote a bug pattern poem too.

Click Here To See My Class Pattern Bugs

download Pattern Bug 

click here for pattern fish 

Pattern Jumps On The Number Line

I am teaching a new math program {Think Math} this year and this lesson was challenging for students. The students do AB and ABC jumps on the number line. 

Making AB and ABC.

click here for number line 

 The kids also write numbers on the number line {under the dot}. One of my favorite things about Think Math is that they do lots of lessons with the number line. 

Some number patterns we explored

{2,4,6,} {10,20,30} {3,6,8} 

Mystery Pattern Riddles 

I did some of these mystery riddles with students who have a 

strong understanding of patterns. We worked on the AB riddles. Next week I plan to do some ABC riddles. There is a blank template to let your students write riddles too. 

click here for Mystery Patterns

Pattern Story Problems

Download Line Up problem

Roll Two Dice Turkey & Turkey Poems

Shared Reading This Week

CLICK HERE FOR POEM DOWNLOADS 

I love this Native American Chant. 
I have the students make actions for the earth, 
fire, water and air.
For RETURN we make a stirring motion with our hands.
YEA YEA= CLAP CLAP
WO WO= SLAP THIGHS

THANKSGIVING MATH 

Here is a simple math dice game.
{Special Thanks to Lita-Lita for Turkey clipart}

 Click here for math download 

Math Routines

Here are some things I have made for some of my math routines. I always seem to be looking for copies each September so I thought I would share them with you. I have blogged before about this amazing math book called Number Sense Routines by Jessica Shumway.  It is LOADED with great ideas and excellent explanation of why we should be doing certain math routines with our kids. I find myself turning to this book all the time. 

book info

Keeping Track of the Days in School

(circle the day)

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Counting to 100

In the bigger container, students will put a cube in the bucket to represent each day.  Jessica gives great examples of how students count how many. The smaller jar will be used to collect (small rocks) this shows students what 100 looks like. 

Number Cards

I saw something similar to these number cards in a Kathy Richardson book.The number cards go to 10. I like the visual of the dots in groups. 

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Numbers 1-100 for the Hundredth Chart

I could not find missing numbers on the 100th chart and finally decided to make a set for the pocket chart.

Click here 

Months of the Year in Different Colors.

click to get all of the months 

How Many Days With Ten Frames

I learned this routine from Mathematics In The City.  
I just have the kids stick a circle dot sticker on the ten-frame ( I use the same color dots) once the frame is filled it moves to the tens. My school used to use straws but from our training we learned that Ten Frames are a better visual for kindergarteners and first graders.

Happy Counting!

Counting The Squares In Our Name

This was a simple lesson focusing on our names and counting. 

I found these pre-cut paper mosaic squares at a Lakeshore Learning Center.  

We made our names with squares.
After laminating the kids counted how many squares. 
We recorded our answers on Post-its.

We made a small self-portrait too.
We plan to reflect/record some of our findings after vacation.
The kids enjoyed doing this simple, fun activity. 
I plan to do this in the fall of next year. 
Happy Counting!

Ladybug Math

Here are some Ladybug problems we have been solving at math time. 

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Ladybug Dice Game

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