Big Book Playground for 5 year olds

  These five year-olds that I am seeing once a week this summer keep exceeding my expectations. I'm trying to engage them with relevant, age appropriate concepts, but they mostly seem to be at least one step ahead of where I expect them to be. They will be starting Kindergarten in the fall. I am…

Origami Boats and Meandering Number Line with 4-year olds

Full disclosure: I did not try out teaching 4-year olds how to make origami boats. It's not that I didn't want to, or that I chose not to, it was just that there were other things I wanted to do more, and my time with these little ones was limited. Much to my delight, though, after…

Finger Tracing

This post is for people who have the good fortune to be working with four- and five-year olds. For quite some time I've been exploring ways of drawing the attention of young students to their fingers. In my post Counting to Ten, March 2015  I wrote"My thinking here is that I want these students to create a…