Halloween

 The kids voted on the pumpkin face and the scary one was the winner.  See Miss Araujo in action as she carves the pumpkin with the kids.  The children enjoyed the sensory experience of scooping out the seeds!  We are using the seeds for math activities.  We are having the JK's count out 10 seeds to enhance their one to one correspondence, which is understanding that each object in a group is only counted once.  Then we ask them how many seeds they just counted as we want them to know that the last count of a group of objects represents the total number in that group.   Some children will be able to tell us that they counted 10 seeds and others will count the seeds again.  Try this activity at home with any objects to assist your child in understanding quantity.
With the SK's we want them to know what 100 looks like so we will be making a chart of 100 seeds and then we will look at counting by 10's to 100.  We want them to understand that by grouping objects together, it makes it easier to count.