For my first class activity, I am going to teach an activity that covers the topic of recognizing the amount of objects in a small group. For this, I created an activity that goes well with kindergarten math, involving counting.
While I brainstormed an idea for this activity, I created a Board Builder on Discovery Education, which gave me many ideas for different projects. You can see my board right here, and you can view the screenshots of it below.
The activity that is shown below will help students practice recognizing the number of objects in a group, without having to count each of them. After recognizing the quantity, they will have to be able to identify and match it with the number of that quantity, which will also be shown in tally marks and dice dots.
Materials:
- Blue paper
- White paper
- Colored card stock
- Velcro
- Rubber Cement
- Scissors
Directions for Counting Activity:
- Draw 78 raindrop shapes on blue pieces of paper
- Draw 12 clouds on white paper
- On each cloud, write the number, and show the tally marks and dice dots. For example, ( IIII, 4, and *4 dots*)
- Cut out the raindrops
- Use glue or rubber cement to attach the raindrops to colored card stock.
- Laminate the card stock and clouds
- Cut out the clouds and attach a piece of velcro to the back
- Attach the opposite piece of velcro to the card stock
The main idea of this activity is to teach the students to recognize a quantity, and match it with the recognized numbers or tallies. This activity is easy for kindergarteners, because all the students have to do is match each cloud with the correct number of rain drops.
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