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Measuring with Cornmeal added
9-30-98 Original Author Unknown
Pour yellow cornmeal
into a plastic dishpan and provide a set of measuring cups.
Let the children take turns experimenting with measuring. They will soon
discover that it takes four quarter-cups or two
half-cups to fill the one cup container.
Weighing Acorns &
Pine Cones added
9-30-98 Original Author Unknown
A scale, acorns and pine cones
can be added to the science center.
Leaf Math
added 9-30-98 Original
Author Unknown
Out of construction
paper or tagboard, prepare pairs of various shaped leaves.
The children can match the identical leaves.
Leaf Match added
9-30-98 Original Author Unknown
Use a glue stick to glue leaves plucked from 4-6
different trees on to a poster board. Cover with
clear contact paper. Sandwich leaves of the same
size and variety between two pieces of clear contact
paper. Trim around each leaves leaving a ¼ " sealed edge. Set
the board and leaves on a tray. The children match the leaves.
Nut Sorting
added 9-30-98
Original Author Unknown
Set out a large basket
of unshelled nuts (several varieties). The children sort the
nuts into smaller baskets according to their kind. Afterwards count how
many nuts there are of each kind.
Leaf Math
added 11-9-98 Submitted
by: Barbara Scanlon
I take laminated colored
paper in red, orange, yellow, green and brown. I
cut out leaf shapes in two different sizes. These are
put in the sorting tray. The children can sort by color and size. Then
I also cut out a larger leaf shape. The children then use these
leaves to count with. Later on I use a
"sharpie" to add numerals to the
leaves. Then the older pre-K students put these in order. As a class
project I pass out the leaves with the numbers on them, then the children
put themselves into order. This is great fun and they learn from
each other.
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