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.
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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!)
Hello! I LOVE your math and science stuff! Please keep posting :) Last year I started collecting science "experiments" so I could have a weekly activity and this goes so well with it! I will also be coming back frequently to see your math problem solving units! LOVE them!! Thanks for all you do - you sound like a wonderful teacher!!
Posted by: liz | 08/06/2010 at 08:54 PM
Wonderful, wonderful ideas and activities. I have just found your site and I am already planning next year. You will surely same me lots of time. You are a fountain of help! God bless.
Posted by: Maria | 04/14/2013 at 09:13 AM
Your math lessons are fantastic! Your lessons ideas have rigor and they are fun for the kids as well. May God Bless you for being so generous with your talent to create great lessons for children.
Posted by: Laine | 08/13/2013 at 11:45 PM
I love your ideas and how you explain things. I have already shared your blog with about 10 others in a days time!
Posted by: Leigh Reed | 10/04/2013 at 08:46 PM
Lovely ideas, Thanks.
Posted by: Priya | 01/19/2014 at 07:46 PM
Loving your math and science stuff! Thanks for posting!
I am teaching science & math in Kindergarten in Denmark as an EX-PAT so finding fun stuff is great...I just need to recreate it into Danish.
:)
Posted by: Jennifer | 09/23/2014 at 12:29 PM