Math Workshop

This week the first graders were mixed up and practiced switching classrooms for math.  Two of the activities the children were able to participate in were combinations of 10 and place value.

Here some of us are playing a game called Bears in a Cave.  This game helped us recall the different combinations of 10.  Each student had a paper bowl "cave," a bag of 10 bear manipulatives and a recording sheet.  The children placed different numbers of bears in the cave and found how many were left out in the forest.  For example, if 8 bears were in the cave, 2 bears were in the forest.  They then turned that combination into an equation:  8 + 2 = 10.  We had a blast playing this!

In another classroom, the children worked on place value.  Here they are becoming familiar with base 10 blocks.