Sorry this post is so late, but we wanted to share anyway about our 100th day of school work in kindergarten. February 13th was the 100th day of the school year. That means that kindergarten is more than halfway over! All morning that day we worked with the number 100: counting from 1 to 100 (by ones, then by tens), making 100 drawings organized on 10 frames, measuring 100 steps in the hallway, arranging collections of 100 counting bears, and counting 100 unifix cubes. 100 is a big number for kindergarteners to wrap their minds around, and the learning standards for kindergarten only state that a child should be able to count by ones and tens, but it's fun to explore such a big number. Most of our work that day focused on organizing groups of ten, which is more their pace.
You can support your child's understanding of numbers within ten by organizing things at home by ten or posing questions about ten: "Pair ten socks from this laundry basket to get a check on your chore chart!" or "There are ten days until your birthday. Let's check them off every day on a calendar."
You may notice a new face in the photos. Whitney is our student teacher from Columbia Teacher's College. The kids love her and so do we!
David & Clara
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