While reading Froggy Goes to School to a group of children during health break, we stumbled upon the name of the teacher Mrs. Witherspoon. First we clapped the syllables and then we counted the letters - 11. This was the inspiration for the Tuesday afternoon's math activity !
Theo was up first with 4 letters in his name, then Roy. How many letters? 3! How much more to make 4? 1 ! And away we went. It turns out that Anamaria and Francine have the longest names in the school. So with every name we determined how many more letters Francine has in her name than theirs. In the end we did a quick graph to show how many children have 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 letters in their names. This gave the children another way to visualize the statistics.
Can I come too!?
ReplyDelete:-) Anytime !
Deletethat's a neat way to see counting!
ReplyDeleteTheo really liked it- that's why he was first, he was the "quietest" child at the math table !
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