Math Resources

Worksheets for shapes, matching, equivalence, more, and less
To recognize shapes and practice matching, you can either use ready-made worksheets or workbooks, or make some of your own.
If you make your own, you can just draw three circles on a page and then 2-5 triangles on a page, and ask the child to match each circle with a triangle by drawing a line from shape to shape. Vary the shapes and the amounts. Sometimes the amounts should be equal, sometimes not.
Another variation is to ask the child to draw. First make some sticks, circles, squares, or other shapes on a page, and encircle them. Make for the child a big "bubble" to draw in, and ask the child to draw either the same amount, one more, or one less.
Also have your child practice writing numbers on paper.

You can find lots of different kinds of basic kindergarten workbooks at LearningThings.com. You don't really need anything too fancy to practice these concepts, so workbooks from many different publishers can work equally well.
Singapore Math's EarlyBird Kindergarten math is praised a lot. Dorling Kindersley's kindergarten math workbook is of good quality as well.

There are of course several fine websites that have free worksheets for kindergarten math, such as:
Kidzone.ws kindergarten math worksheets
Maths is fun kindergarten worksheets
Kindergarten math worksheets from About.com

* Shape Up!

We learn to draw circles. We use the circles to make a picture. This is our friend. She used circles to make a butterfly. She is a happy learner!

Click here to go to a shape snip-it!

* Harvest Celebration

A Colorful Halloween

Halloween is in the fall,

When summer colors fade.

But there are colors everywhere,

In the Halloween parade.

It’s fun to dress on Halloween,

In costumes bold and bright.

An old brown owl, a big black cat,

Or a little ghost in white.

Pumpkins are so fat and round..

A bright orange color, too.

Scoop them out and carve a face.

So they can grin at you.

So have a colorful Halloween

And make October bright.

With all the colors of Halloween: Black, orange, brown and white. ***

We have been learning about COLOR... making books about color, mixing colors, painting, and reading about color! Colors are everywhere!

It has been said that "You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parent(s) every time around - and why his parent(s) will always wave back. ~Original Author: William D.

Thank you to our good parents who help make our class celebrations so much... FUN!

A pirate's life is a wonderful life. ***from "Peter Pan"

Teacher: Read To Me

Read to me riddles and

read to me rhymes,

Read to me stories of magical times.

Read to me tales about castles and kings.

Read to me stories of fabulous things.

Read to me pirates and read to me knights,

Read to me dragons and dragon-book fights.

Read to me spaceships and cowboys and then, When you are finished -- please read them again.

A teacher's constant task is to take a roomful of live wires and see to it that they're grounded!
Author Unknown

* ORANGE

* Follow the Rules ... REWARD Lunch On the Lawn

Yeah! We earned a special reward for our good behavior. We have been working on following all of the class and school rules. Following the rules helps us learn, and helps our teacher teach.

When our teacher noticed we all were following the class rules, we would earn a letter, building the phrase: LUNCH ON THE LAWN. When we earned all the letters we were so excited! We felt pride in our efforts.

















Our class rules are:
1. Listen to teacher the 1st time.
2. Share and take turns.
3. Use appropriate voice levels.
4. Control our whole self.
5. Take care of class materials.
6. Be in the right place at the right time.

When we follow the class rules we keep our kindergarten power!

When we follow the class rules we are making learning choices that will help us be the best kindergarten kids we can be.

We feel good when we keep our kindergarten power. To learn about Kindergarten Power Teaching click here and here.

* Mad Scientists

It's Red Ribbon Week!
What is Red Ribbon Week?

It's a special week when we focus on making choices to keep us safe and healthy. We make lots choices every single day.

These friends came to our school to help our Panther teach us about making choices. They taught us about how taking bad things into our body will make us unhealthy. They taught us how to make choices when making a choice is hard.

We choose to be healthy for all of our life!

* Panther Paw Award

Our school has a special award that is given to a student who does something that is spectacular!

Of course our teacher says that every one of us is awesome, and we all do spectacular things.

But, sometimes, one of us will be what our teacher calls a "SUPER STUDENT!" That's when she reports our actions to the Principal and he presents us with a special award. And... he calls our parent(s). And... they come! And... the Principal tells the whole school about the good thing we did.

And... it feels very cool! We are all working at earning a Panther Paw Award.

Our teacher says we can't ask for the award. It has to come as a surprise, when we don't even realize our "SUPER-NESS!"

That is cool.
Very cool.