Today in K1 prep we used our math lesson to facilitate our writing lesson. It's a math heavy week with concepts including patterning, graphing, and money/coins. We started our writing and math lesson together by drawing patterns of color in our journals. We then stretched the color names and wrote them down.
We then moved into graphing. I love to introduce graphing using the book "Ten Apples Up On Top!" or "Hats for Sale". Both books show stacking multiple items (apples or hats) on top of a head. I introduce graphing vertically first and draw a smiling face on the identifying picture. We talk about how the face has to wear all the matching hats. The hat can't be up high with empty space between it and the identifying picture because if I put my hat way up high it would just fall to the ground. We use the SmartBoard to manipulate a handful of graphs and then turn to horizontal graphs. The concept makes a lot of sense to young kids. They proved that they understood it by cutting and gluing their own practice graph.
Everyone is doing fantastic with their reading. I'm impressed with all the skills that are being practiced. We're getting better at identifying letter names and sounds, we're gaining fluency with word families and sight words, and we're exploring reading books that are just right for our reading levels.
At the end of the day we sang the ABCD Nursery Rhymes song, jumped while we counted to 100, and then worked on building patterns with unifix cubes. Each child is borrowing 10 unifix cubes to build AB patterns at home.
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