Missing Number

Today the morning class played a missing number zoo game.  On Tuesday the afternoon class played it.  On their turn the children picked a card that had a sequence of numbers with one missing; 9, ___, 11.  The children had to fill in the missing number.  Next year the children will be assessed using AIMS web.  As part of the math assessment they will have to find the missing number in a sequence of numbers.

Today the children also made a giraffe position book.  On each page there was a sentence that told where the giraffe was;  Giraffe is under the sun.  After reading the sentence together the children had to glue their giraffe in the correct spot.  Next year you will hear a lot about the Wisconsin Common Core Standards.  One of the math standards is to explore, recognize and describe shapes and spatial relations.  Spatial relations includes the terms under, between, above, and below, all of which were covered in our giraffe book.  At an independent center the children created their own zoo.