Early Numeracy
Using Play and the Early Learning Continuum
Math Breakout Session for Kindergarten Teachers
May 8th, 2010
Christine VanderRee
SD71 Numeracy Support Teacher, L.R.C.
christine.vanderree@sd71.bc.ca
www.sd71.bc.ca/math/
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Learning Intentions:
Deepen your understanding the
kindergarten numeracy curriculum
 Explore activities that keep the ‘real
world’ in number activities
 Identify where kindergarten children are
likely to struggle and determine ways to
support them
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Number Strand
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Part Part Whole Cards
-A2
Subitizing
-A4 Thinking of a number in two parts
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Lesson Ideas …
Five Little Monkeys
By Eileen Christelow
-Follow along with unifix cubes as the
story is read and re-read – like puppets
on the finger, work two colours
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Lesson Ideas …
Five Little Monkeys
By Eileen Christelow
-Tell/act out the story with a partner
using finger puppets
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Lesson Ideas …
Five Little Monkeys
By Eileen Christelow
-“Find all the monkeys”– children are
‘whispered’ the number of monkeys in
the bed from zero to five and find a
partner that helps them fill the bed
- use clear egg cartons to build and then
find the partner
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Lesson Ideas …
Ten Flashing Fireflies
by Philemon Sturges
- See detailed lesson
A4 represent and describe numbers 2 to 10,
concretely and pictorially
- Show a given number as two parts, using
fingers, counters or other objects and name
the number of objects in each part
- Show a given number as two parts using
pictures and name the number of objects in
each part
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Lesson Ideas …
Model the story
- fingers
- with jars and bugs
- Felt board
- Smartboard
- As a centre with the book
- Practice the count and trusting the count
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Lesson Ideas …
Student Samples – journal entry
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Lesson Ideas …
Student Samples
– drawing the problem with a template
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Lesson Ideas …
Counting Sticks
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With an ‘emerging child’ you will
need to:
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With an ‘developing child’ you will
need to:
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With child who is ‘applying’ the
concepts you will need to:
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With a child who is extending the
concept you will need to:
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Lesson Ideas continued …
20 Hungry Piggies
A Number Book
By Trudy Harris
See detailed lesson – ‘change unknown’
- Focus on concrete representation – acting it
out, using blocks, felt boards or toys for the
pigs
- Model pictorial representations
- Gradually add number equations to
represent the story problem
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Lesson Ideas …
20 Hungry Piggies
A Number Book
By Trudy Harris
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Lesson Ideas continued…
Just Enough Carrots
By Stuart Murphy
See detailed lesson for problem solving ideas
A4 represent and describe numbers 2 to 10, concretely and pictorially
and/or
A5 compare quantities, 1 to 10, using one-to-one correspondence
-Construct a set to show more than, fewer than or as many as a given set
-Compare two given sets through direct comparison and describe the sets
using words, such as more, fewer, as many or the same number
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More lessons and resources…
www.sd71.bc.ca/math/
christine.vanderree@sd71.bc.ca
Thanks to …
Gayle DenOtter and her Hornby Island Community School K/1 class
Jan Miller-Fox and her Royston Elementary K class
Lisa Pederson-Skene and her Huband Elementary K classes
For their work samples and feedback on these lessons
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