Halloween Math Stations

For the past two weeks, the children have been exploring different mathematical concepts through the 4 different math stations.

The first math station was called "Witch's Brew".  The children have to pick a number from the cauldron and identify it.  If they can name it, they keep it.   If not, then the number goes back into the pot.  There are many interesting cards added to the brew to keep the game interesting, like "Magic Frog" where you can go again  or "Spider" to take a number from a friend. The "Lose a Broom" card makes you put one card back into the brew.   The "Witch's Brew"cauldron cards ends the game.

The next math station is Halloween playdough mats "Spooky Numbers Mats".   The children are counting, practicing number recognition, one to one correspondence, building numbers with the playdough, and using the ten frame to build the number.  

The third station was called "Costume Count".  The children had work mats and used their "eagle eye" to count each costume using the strategy of crossing out each one while counting in a scattered picture.  The children then had to write the number and color the corresponding amount.

The fourth and last math station was by far the favorite.  It was called "Boo Brew" which is a number recognition activity.  The children used the pocket chart to hide the cauldron behind a number.  Each student picked a number to find the hidden cauldron.  The one who picked the right number got to hide the cauldron next.

Each math station involved lots of mathematical concepts, as well as turn taking and team building, and the children had so much fun learning and exploring numbers!  We have math stations four days a week and are able to play with them at least 2 times. 

K.CC:3 Write numbers from 0-20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral.

K.CC 4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities.

K.CC 5 Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration: count out that many objects.

K.OA 4 Given a number between 1-9 find the number that makes 10 when added.