Pattern Foundations
Students learn how patterns are the building blocks of math
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Toy Stories
Storytelling and pretending are natural languages of learning for our youngest students.
Children are focused and engaged as they learn the story’s words, gestures, and facial expressions.
Children work together to retell the Toy Story on their own.
Students draw story maps to share their learning.
Toy Stories develop children’s oral language skills, comprehension skills, and bring mathematical ideas to life!
The information provided in this workshop is totally going to change how I teach mathematics in my classroom. I am especially excited to watch how my students rehearse and perform for each other. I know when my kids construct their own ideas and teach their peers that their learning will be internalized and long lasting.
Early Learning Resource Teacher | Head Start Illinois
Workshops Available
Moving Through Math Toy Stories is an arts integration program where children use voice, gesture, and facial expression to bring mathematical tales to life. Young students manipulate small toys and found objects while telling stories with embedded math concepts. Through story telling and story mapping, students discover the foundations of math.
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Toy Story: Bunny Jump Day
Pre-K and Kindergarten students explore one-to-one correspondence, counting, cardinality, and conservation of number through telling a story about Bunny Jump’s secret garden -
Toy Story: Gotta Getta Bear!
Pre-K and Kindergarten students explore sequence and reverse sequence through telling a story about Margarita’s determined search for a bear -
Toy Story: Lucky the Leprechaun
Pre-K and primary students learn to analyze key mathematical patterns through telling a story about Lucky’s hidden pots of gold -
Toy Story: The Three Billy Goats Gruff — A Story in 5 Parts
Pre-K and Kindergarten students explore measurable attributes through telling 5 different stories about crossing over a Troll's bridge -
Toy Story: Mama Scatterbird
Primary students learn how to decompose numbers through telling a story about baby birds hatching in a nest
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