We used ShowMe, which works like a personal, interactive whiteboard on the students' iPads with drawing, writing (text or pen) and voice recording features.
So, we're in ShowMe and our background knowledge is describing and sorting attribute blocks in many ways. It was basic, an oldie-but-goodie. Additionally, we've done shared writing to create an anchor chart on our focus board about ways to classify and words to use when we do.
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| Attribute Blocks (Remember us??) Used to classify by color, size, shape, number of sides, etc! |
Next, students take a baggie that contains 4-6 blocks. With a partner, and then repeated the next day individually, students choose a shape and record themselves on ShowMe drawing and telling about it. My students made 5 or 6 page presentations describing size, color, shape, volume, number of sides, number of corners. It was amazing! I saved their recordings to make notes for assessment and reteaching. I will try to share a couple tomorrow.
The added bonus? I found this activity to hit all three Common Core standards for Measurement & Data. The shape we're in is great! The standards below:
Describe and compare measurable attributes.
- CCSS.Math.Content.K.MD.A.1 Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.
- CCSS.Math.Content.K.MD.A.2 Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has “more of”/“less of” the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter.
Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.
- CCSS.Math.Content.K.MD.B.3 Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.1
Do you have any other classifying activities that also incorporate other math or technology skills? Please share!
Fabulous! I shared this with some other kdg teachers that are also on that unit!
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