Advanced Pre-K Math With Teacher Lauren

This is a 6 week class that meets two times a week.  Students in this class need to have basic math preschool skills such as  knowing numbers 1-10,  basic 2-D shapes, introduction to more and less.   I do have a beginners to class however it is not required to take this class.  This class is a hands on class. 

Class One- More or Less Part One
Today we will start class with teddy bear comparing numbers. Each student will have a work mat. Ms. Lauren will be showing them two different numbers. They will put either teddy grahams or bear counters to represent the amounts ms. Lauren shown. Students will then compare the two amounts to find which is more ,and which is less.  Our next activity is a more and less clothespin match. Students will get cards from the classroom. These cards will give the students directions such as find the most bears. Students will then put their clothespin on their answer. Students will show Ms. Lauren as we check our answers together. Our final activity will be a more or less worksheet. Students will circle the objects in each group that shows less.

Class Two- More or Less Part Two
During our lesson today we will continue with more or less. We will start class with counting bears one more and one less. Students will be using teddy bear counters or teddy grahams and a workmat provided in the classroom to complete this activity.  Students will be given a number to start with. They will then add one more to that number and then one less to that number. Our next activity is more and less than picture sort. Students will sort pictures that show more than 5 and less than 5. These pictures will be on cards that you will find in the classroom. Our third activity will be a more or less game. Ms. Lauren will be asking students a series of more and less questions that will be prompted on the screen. Students will need to circle the correct answer. Our last activity is a more or less worksheet.

Class Three- Greater/Less Than Part One
Ms. Lauren will start this class off with a quick explanation of greater/less than using Mr. Alligator and a simple poem. Our first hands on activity of the day will be using goldfish crackers to do greater/less than. Students will be given two different numbers and will use fish to count out those numbers. They will then use the alligator cutouts that will be given to them in the classroom to decided greater/less than. We will repeat this activity with different numbers. In second activity students will be given a card with two groups of pictures on it. Students will decided which group is greater and use a smaller alligator cut out to mark greater/less than. In out last activity if we time we will be working on a comparing numbers worksheet. Ms. Lauren also has a song by Jack Heartman "Mr. Gator can chomp." She will only be playing this song in class if we have extra time. If we do not have extra time please look for it in the classroom as a extension to the days lesson. 

Class Four- Greater/Less Than Part Two
Today we will start class off with a hands on activity called the greater/less than cup game. Students will have three cups that will be labeled less than, greater than and equal two. They will have a group of card and will two cards compare those numbers and put them in the appropriate cups.  In second activity students will be given a card with two groups of pictures on it. Students will decided which group is greater and use a smaller alligator cut out to mark greater/less than. Our last activity will be a greater/less than cut and paste worksheet. Ms. Lauren also has a song by Jack Heartman "Mrs. Alligator can chomp." She will only be playing this song in class if we have extra time. If we do not have extra time please look for it in the classroom as a extension to the days lesson. 

Class Five- Simple Addition Part One
Ms. Lauren will introduce the word Addition and words associated with adding using props.  She will introduce "Gus the plus sign" and " Ellie equal sign". Students will be given a worksheet where they will be asked to circle all the plus and equal signs. The rest of the lesson will be focusing on Dino-Mite addition. Students will be given a dinosaur counting work mat. We will be using dinosaur counters that will be given in the classroom. Students will be using the counters to add up the dinosaurs together.

Class Six- Simple Addition Part Two
Class will start off with a quick review of the addition and equal sign that we learned about yesterday. Our first activity is dinosaur addition cards. Students will be using their dinosaur counters that they got in class five to help them add. Students will be repeating this activity a few times using different numbers. Our next activity will be dinosaur clothespin cards. Each dinosaur will have 2 numbers on them to add together. Students will be using the clothespins as counters.  Both activities for the day can be used again at home if you would like to laminate them after class. Our day will end with a dinosaur adding worksheet. 

Class Seven- Simple Subtraction Part One
Ms. Lauren will introduce the word Subtraction and words associated with subtraction using props.  She will introduce "Linus the minus sign" and " Ellie equal sign". Students will be given a worksheet where they will be asked to circle all the minus and equal signs. Our first activity will be a interactive story. Ms. Lauren will be telling the story of "5 little monkeys sitting in the tree"using a palm tree prop.  Students can follow Ms. Lauren's story by using their own work mat.  In our last activity we will feed the hungry shark. Students will be making a paper shark. They will also have some fish cut outs. We will subtract the fish in the water from the fish our shark ate. 

Class Eight- Simple Subtraction Part Two
Class will start off with a quick review of the addition and equal sign that we learned about yesterday. We will start class with math mat. Students will need either teddy bear counters or teddy grahams. We will then be doing subtraction smash. Students will need play dough. If we have extra time we will finish class with a worksheet activity. 

Class Nine- Graphing and Data Part One
In this class we will start graphs. Our first activity we will graph our favorite zoo animal. We will do this together on Ms. Lauren's screen. We will get to see how many of our class likes certain animals. We will talk about why doing a graph can be so important when we are trying to learn something. Our next activity will be graphing insects. This will be a simple worksheet. Ms. Lauren will show students the bar graph. We will count the insects and color in our car graph. Our last activity for the day is a heads or tails flip. We will be tossing the coin 10 times. Students will color the graph with the results. 

Class Ten- Graphing and Data Part Two
Students will start the class off with cereal graphing. Students need 10 different pieces of a fruity o's type of cereal. In this activity everyone's cereal graphs will be different. We will be able to compare graphs. In our next graphing activity students will graph their favorite color. The data we get will tell us what color is popular in our class. The last graphing activity is a under the sea graph. Students will count  and color the sea creatures. 

Class Eleven- 3-D Shapes Part One
Ms. Lauren will start class by introducing 6 3-D shapes. Our first activity will be a 3D matching game. Students will match 3D shapes to each other on a work mat. Parents can laminate this activity or put it in a clear if they would like to use it again. Our next activity will be a 3D snack sort. Students will sort different snack items by their shape. We will then do a 3D shape bingo. Our last activity will be "Find that shape" Students will have a worksheet filled with different 3D shapes. Ms. Lauren will show students a shape and learners will find the shape on their page.

Class Twelve- 3D Shapes Part Two
Today Our first activity will be "3D shapes around us" Students will be asked to draw pictures of things in their environment we will do a experiment with the 3D shapes and decide if they can roll, slide and stack. Students will use simple household items that are 3D shaped to try this activity. Our next activity is a 3D shape cut and paste sort. Students will be sorting real world items into groups with other alike shapes.