Fourth Grade Bulletin Board
During the first week of school, we spent a lot of time getting to know one another. A large majority of my students enjoyed sports. I created a sports theme bulletin board to showcase students work. Students were excited to display their work in the hall. In math class, students acted out line segments, rays and lines with their arms and then created them on large index cards with circles, arrows and popsicle sticks. Students also created a symmetrical painting which was also displayed.
Kindergarten Math Center
Students were working on 1 to 1 correspondence, number identification and ordering numbers. During this activity, students used Pete the Cat papers to develop number sense. While at this center, students put Pete the Cat papers 0-10 in order. They counted out the appropriate number of candy corn pieces for each paper. Once students completed this task, we discussed their work. We took pictures of students at their centers and then placed the photographs on the Promethean board in a slide show format. The kids loved seeing themselves and were quite proud of their work. Parents also viewed the slideshow during parent teacher conferences.
Kindergarten Ocean Environment Bulletin Board
I taught a unit on "What lives in an ocean environment". During this unit, students sang songs about the ocean, walked like crabs, swayed like seaweed, and "swam" like fish. Students explored nonfiction text features and compared nonfiction to fiction stories. Students made ocean animals to display on the bulletin board, according to where the animal would be found in the ocean. Students also dictated a fact they learned to me, which I recorded on fish notepaper which was also displayed on our ocean environment bulletin board. The ocean theme extended into math as well. Students developed number sense by grouping real shark teeth into groups of ten. It was determined that the number of students was less than the number of shark teeth; therefore, there were enough teeth for each student to have one. Students also created a bar graph by voting for their favorite ocean animal on Election Day.
INTASC Standard 3: Diverse Learners The teacher must know that the students have different capabilities of learning and based on that must train them.
I am a firm believer in Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and this unit incorporated opportunites for all students to learn.
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INTASC Standard 3: Diverse Learners The teacher must know that the students have different capabilities of learning and based on that must train them.
I am a firm believer in Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and this unit incorporated opportunites for all students to learn.
Click here to view favorite ocean animal math lesson.
Ocean Environment
Watercolor ocean environments made by 2 kindergarten students in my class.