Tuesday, November 30, 2010

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8! Addition is a piece of cake!

How many ways can you make the number 8!? In honor of the 8 days of chanukah, Gan Aleph put their addition skills to the test! We sat as a group and experimented with 8 candles. The children worked together to take 1 candle and figure out how many more candles they need to make the number 8. We used numbers and math signs to help us create different math sentences to go with our candle equations. When we finished all 9 ways to make the number 8, we read The Eight Nights: A Chanukah Counting Book, by Jane Bearman. During center time, we reinforced this lesson with an individual addition chart.

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