Math Problem Solving Week 5: Position Words

Ahh...position words. This is a hard week to plan, because, in general, kindergartners' oral language and understanding of the concept is much more advanced than their reading ability and writing skills. I also never know, from year to year, how easy or hard this will be for them. (This is very easy for kids who have had a lot of exposure to the English language--MUCH harder for our ESL learners!)

So--as you will probably guess--I read these problems to the kids--slowly and several times, repeating parts when necessary. Often, we don't even get out our individual notebooks. We just do these problems together in our Big Class Notebook. I can always give them more problems to do individually later in the year, when they're reading skills have improved.

I start everyday with the Position Word Warm-ups found here.

Day 1

 

 

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

 

Of course, you know your own class and can make the problems harder/easier according to their previous knowledge and experience. And this will be a concept you will practice all throughout the year in informal settings--doing art projects or playing games, even cleaning up (I like that one! Please put the frog puzzle underneath the farm puzzle!)
  

Comments

[liz]

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[Supra TK Society]

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[Maria]

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