We have been having so much fun learning about our numbers!
Children need many materials to manipulate in order for them to begin to develop number comprehension. Most children coming into preschool can count to 5 or 10 however, they rarely understand that the numbers they are saying refer to an item or a set of items.
Most children use their fingers (and even toes) to help develop the skill of counting. Using objects such as these blocks helps them develop "one-to-one" correspondence.
Making a set: We learned there are many different ways to make a set of 3. The students learned that when they use 3 blocks, no matter how many different ways they grouped them, it still equaled 3!
See it, Count it, Make it....
These have been some of our *question words* during our block exploration time:
How many? Larger or Smaller? Bigger? Can you make ___? How did you figure that out? Can you point and count? Do you have more or less? How many more?
Asking questions like these, help children problem solve and discover new concepts!
