Frogs and Toads Hop into Kindergarten!

This week the children created new calendar pieces for the month of May, which happened to be frogs and toads. The children created these pieces using construction paper and they look adorable on our calendar! We voted as a class on what pattern we would like to see on the calendar and decided on an AABAA pattern.

We are using a Frog & Toad spinner this month to determine what kind of card (frog or toad) to put in the Our Month in School chart each day. Prior to doing this, the spinner was spun 10x and the children had to keep track of how many times we spun a frog and how many times we spun a toad. The children did an amazing job organizing their data on their whiteboards. Just like last month, we will keep track of how many times we spin a frog or toad using a graph. We will also write a number sentence daily showing how many frogs and toads we have so far.

Frogs have also made an appearance in our math work places. The sea creature handfuls activity will now be replaced with Frogs and be titled Frog Handfuls. Again, this activity reinforces of the concept of estimation.