Math in Kindergarten!

 We believe in hands on, concrete mathematical instruction to help our mathematicians understand and remember mathematical concepts.

Students use cubes to model their mathematical thinking.

Students record their mathematical thinking.

Students talk about their mathematical thinking with peers to explain their thinking.

We use a learning target and a visible thinking for kindergarten mathematicians to learn from, refer to and reflect about using "I am the kind of mathematician who....".

We are authors!

 We kick off the year in kindergarten with immediately putting paper and writing tools in kids hands.  We believe writer's get stronger by writing.  At the beginning of kindergarten we draw pictures to tell our stories.  

We collaborated as a crew and looked closely at past kindergarten authors to create our criteria list.

Each student reflected on their own.  We celebrated what went well and set our individual writing goals.

We celebrated with a book party.

Each student shared his/her picture book with their table crew.

We are so excited to be authors!