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Easter Math
Center
In my
kindergarten class I love to create theme based centers that are age
appropriate, meaningful and hands-on. Easter is a meaningful holiday for
the children- they enjoy bunnies, baskets and eggs.
To create the
math center, I bought egg garland and mini baskets from Wal-Mart.
I cut the string in between the garland and all of the eggs became
individual eggs perfect for sorting, counting, patterning, graphing
and adding. I then wrote down numbers 0-9 on paper and taped
them on the baskets. Lastly I set out the baskets and Easter eggs at
a center with an Easter bunny.
To introduce the
children to the center I showed them some possibilities for one to
one correspondence, sorting, graphing and I asked them for other
ideas to use the eggs.
They came up with: Counting all the pink eggs and yellow eggs and
then adding them together. Counting all of the different
colors and seeing which one has the most and least. Creating
an egg pattern and seeing how long all of the eggs were lined up.
Did you know, they were longer than 2 children laying down?
To extend this
center I have also included different sizes of plastic Easter eggs
to see them find different ways of sorting.
It is fun to watch the children explore with the materials and find
new and exciting ways to use the eggs mathematically. |
