I did a great activity with my class. I gave each child a piece of blue construction paper. We pretended that it was the ocean. Each of the unfix cubes was a different sea creature. We put one green octopus in our ocean. Two red crabs, etc. I was working on review of colors and number quantity. I only worked on numbers one through five. This is what I am focusing on at this time. At the beginning of the activity I just said what to put in their ocean. Then together as a group we counted the objects. Towards the end of the activity I wrote the number on a dry erase board, to show them the number that corresponded with the quantity.
My students loved the activity. The loved to pretend that the paper was the ocean. As a follow up activity the next day I gave them a blue piece of paper and they drew sea creatures on it. Each child got to decide what they wanted to draw. At the bottom I had typed a sentence, I drew __ _____ in my ocean. The child wrote the number and then I had printed out the name of the sea creature and they glued the name of the sea creature in the sentence. I worked one-on-one and we pointed and read their sentence together. My students are beginning to learn numbers one through five.
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Carrie, it sounds like you are extremely happy teaching third grade. I have only summer school experience with kinders and quickly learned that it was not the life for me. I am so happy that your lessons with the "older" kids are going so well. It is nice to see that you are able to stick with your math focus even with the grade change. A bit of stability is good, right? hahaha Keep up the meaningful and exciting lessons! ~Theresa
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