What We Did This Week

Welcome to May!

April 30th 2024

Today, we introduced the spindle rods. This work helps our Stars practice number recognition and associating symbols with quantities. While working with the spindle rods, we also learned that zero is equivalent to nothing. The direct aims of working with spindle rods are learning that numbers apply to sets of units, introducing zero, and associating the quantities and numeric symbols of 0-9. The indirect aims of working with spindle rods are deepening the sensorial experience of sequence quantities, seeing the position of zero in the sequence of quantities and symbols, and introducing principles of the decimal system.

May 1st 2024

Today our younger friends enjoyed the beautiful weather outside and planted kidney beans! This activity is great for our friends when it comes to developing fine motor skills, learning about science and math, and connecting with nature. Our older friends spent their circle time talking about how to keep our earth healthy by recycling, picking up trash, and planting seeds. They also learned about trees and how they are utilized as a valuable resource to people by using them to make paper, and to build homes.

May 2nd 2024

Today, we talked about irregular shapes. Our Stars learned characteristics about irregular shapes and shapes without a name. We also learned that even though irregular shapes don’t have names, they are still polygons based on the number of sides they have! Our friends also learned about hexagons, heptagons, and octagons. We learned that these shapes have six, seven, and eight sides, respectively. The children noticed that stop signs are in the shape of octagons! We learned that an easy way to remember the name of the polygon with eight sides is thinking of an octopus. An octagon begins with OCTO like octopus.