Graphing  Ask
children to wear their name tags. The teacher stands and the children come and
stand in front of the teacher when the teacher says, "Ok, if your name has - : Put out the objects tell the children that one object is not
like the others (stressing the word not). Ask the children to point to the object
that is not the same as the other objects. Repeat with another series of
objects.
Morning, Noon, and Night-Bulletin Board: Divide a bulletin board into three
sections labeled "morning," "afternoon," and
"evening." Draw a rectangle in each section. You could add a picture
at the top of each rectangle. Morning could be a smiley face, afternoon could
be a less smiley face, evening a sleeping face. Have the children cut clothes and objects from the magazines and place them
into the proper region. For example, what would someone wear in the morning?
When would a toaster most likely be used? When would a bed most likely be used? Morning, Noon, and Night: Make a three page book. Label the pages: Morning, Afternoon and
Night. Have children find pictures of morning, afternoon, and evening routines
to cut out. Show the pictures. Have children glue the pictures onto the correct
page in their books. 3-Ring Circles:
Place 3 pieces of yarn on the floor to make a "3-ring circles". Have
children sort buttons, toys or other objects and place each item inside a ring.
Then take 2 related and 1 unrelated objects and place them in a ring. Do this
for each ring. Have a child remove the thing that does not belong. Sort the Cars:
Place a large assortment of toy cars in the group time area. Challenge children
to find different ways to sort them. Possibilities include color, number of
wheels, cars with or without writing, cars with doors that open, and number of
doors. Children might come up with other ideas, as well. Color Lids: Ask
children to sort materials by color. Children may glue materials of the same color
onto juice-can lids. Children can make several lids of different colors. Provide a supply of nuts & bolts OR different
kinds of pasta shapes OR different colors/types of paper clips OR something
else that is small and can be sorted. Glue ONE of each major "type"
onto an index card (I sometimes use wide clear packing tape to affix items to
the card - you can see through it & its more permanent than glue.) Have the
child sort the items by matching them up to the "type cards." Make
this harder by requiring the sorts to be "by size only" or "by
size AND type" etc.
Smartie Math Ideas
graph according to ingredients taste test. what flavour is your favourite? survey how people eat their Smartie - does the data relate to the advertising?
Probability
- Put 2 colours in a bag. What are the chances of getting colour A? Colour B? Change how many of each colour you put in. How does this change your chances?
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