Tagged as: Animals
Giddy Up Math: Animal Games and Books for the Early Years
Many topics for young children can be a great opportunity to explore the math in interests they have. Animals is a popular one, full of many options. When introducing math animal games and books can be a natural entry point for the early years.
Series: Ideas at Work
Three Bears Sort in a Dual Language Classroom
February 15, 2013
Wanda Ocasio of Inter-American School saw the opportunity to use a Three Bears sorting lesson to investigate her preschoolers’ understanding of sorting, as well as explore this Big Idea in the context of a multilingual environment.
- Topic: Sets
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K
- Tags Animals, English Language Learner, Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Series: Book Ideas February 15, 2013
Measuring with Books, Blocks, and Even Penguins
There are any number of wonderful books that give children very concrete images to show how big creatures are and to make comparisons to their own size.
- Topic: Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K
- Tags Animals, Big and Small, Books, Actual Size, Prehistoric Actual Size, Steve Jenkins, Penguins!, Anne Schreiber
Series: Book Ideas February 15, 2013
What Kind of Counting Book Is It?
There’s nothing like a stack of attractive counting books to help young children explore number. However, it’s worth taking the time to analyze exactly how the numbers in the book are put to work, so…
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Animals, Books, April Pulley Sayre, Donald Crews, Ten Black Dots, One is a Snail Ten is a Crab, One Duck Stuck, Phyllis Root
Series: Ideas at Work February 15, 2013
A Colorful Book to Brighten the Dog-Gone Day
Daniela Giralt at Gunsaulus Elementary, a 2010-11 Early Math participant, used the book Dog’s Colorful Day by Emma Dodd to help her preschoolers explore the Big Ideas of counting. First in the whole group, children…
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K
- Tags Animals, Dog's Colorful Day, Emma Dodd
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