MATH
6. For variety, chart in different directions (top to bottom, left to right).
7. When discussing the results, talk about different comparison words, such as
more, less, most, least, and so on.
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Sandra L. Nagel, White Lake, MI
What’s a Minute?
Materials
Items that tell time, such as clocks, stopwatches, hourglasses, and timers
What to do
1. Ask children how long they think a minute is. What could they do in one
minute?
2. Explain how long a minute is and ask then count together to 60 to
demonstrate.
3. Ask again what they could do in a minute.
4. Have the children watch the clock for one minute. Point out how the second
hand has to travel
all the way
around one time.
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5. Set the timer for one minute.
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the
children
to
sit
without making a sound
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until the timer rings.
6. Ask again, “What else can you do in one minute?” Challenge them to come
up with other things they can get done in one minute.
7. Have the children try different movements, starting when you say, “Go,” and
stopping after one minute, when you say “Stop.” (For example, clapping
hands, jumping up and down, patting their heads, and so on).
8. Ask the children if a minute would be the same amount of time if you
counted to 60 fast or slow.
9. Show the children the various items that tell time. Demonstrate how each
works.
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Sandra Suffoletto Ryan, Buffalo, NY
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MORNING
GREETING
Attendance Garden
Materials
Several colors of construction paper • markers • scissors • photo of each child,
optional • 12” dowel rods, one for each child • glue • clear tape • 2 plastic
rectangular flower boxes in contrasting colors • rectanglular Styrofoam (enough
to fill flower boxes)
What to do
1. Explain to the children that they are going to help you create an Attendance
Garden, which will be used to keep track of who is present and who is
absent.
2. Let the children choose their favorite color of construction paper and ask
them to draw and cut out a flower shape.
3. Help the children write their names in the middle of the flower shape.
4. If desired, take a photo of each child and ask her to glue it to the center of
the flower above her name.
5. Encourage the children to cut out flower petals from green construction
paper.
6. Demonstrate how to glue and tape the flower and petals to a dowel rod.
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flower box
“Absent” and the otherfrom
flower box “Present.” Put some
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Styrofoam into each flower box.
8. Ask the children to put their flowers in the box labeled “Present” by pushing
the dowel rod down into the Styrofoam. Explain to them that when you see
their flowers in the “Present” flower box, you will know that they are in
school that day.
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