Miss Adams Kindergarten Blog: Making Cars and Working On Subtraction

This week was such a fun week filled with a review game of subtraction and we also made cars out of straws, popsicle sticks and wheels! It was so much fun and I took lots of pictures to share!

Snowball Subtraction

As we say goodbye to the cold weather, we played snowball subtraction as a review game. I wrote out subtraction problems on pieces of paper and crumpled them up. Then we had a "snowball fight" throwing the papers around the room, grabbing one and solving the problem on their individual white boards. The kids loved it and it was such a fun way to practice solving subtraction problems!

Students throwing their "snowballs"

A student write down her subtraction equation.

A student draws a picture to solve her subtraction problem.

A student solves his subtraction equation.

Independent work time

I am constantly blown away by your children during independent work time. Typically during our math or reading centers students have jobs that they complete independently so that I am able to meet with small groups of students. It never gets old when I can look up from my table and see every child working on their jobs, helping each other with their work, and being in charge of their own learning. This is something we will continue to work on as we move closer to first grade but I just wanted to share a few quick pictures of students as they were working this week.

Two students are working on a write the room where they count a set of objects
and write how many on their recording sheet.

Two students are working on matching ideas that start with the same beginning sounds.

Car construction

As part of our science unit we have been looking at how things move. We started by brainstorming different vehicles that move and toy versions of those toys that we either push or pull to play with. From there students helped me come up with some toys that they could test using a ramp to see which toys travelled further, how they could make them go further, and which ones went in a straighter line. Students got to test various marbles, wooden spheres and toy cars. From there we discussed the parts that the toy cars had on them and why they were important before we started constructing our own cars.

A group tests a sphere on their ramp.

After testing out various objects that roll, we came up with a list of things that we would need in order to make our own toy cars. The next day we started construction! The students had so much fun putting the cars together and they cannot wait to test them out on different ramps this week!