Kindergarten / Year 1 Work on writing ideas?

[corinne_smith14]

Hi everyone,
I am in Australia and looking for ideas to start the 'math writing' section of the Maths daily 3. Half of my class is in their first year of school so they won't be able to read. Does anyone have any ideas for activities I could use at the beginning of the year?
Thanks,

Corinne

[srea]

Here's a link to a conversation on the "Kindergarten" board that speaks to your posting. To see it all, click on the arrow pointing to the right.

I teach in a class with k- grade 9 students. I give my little ones some visual prompts and they need to answer by drawing pictures that show more or less, bigger or smaller. We do a lot of talking ahead of time about what numbers look like, hands on work making numbers with manipulatives, ways to count, including tally marks and sets, so when they move into Math Writing they have an idea how to represent numbers. I have also had them cut pictures out of advertisements to use creating number sto…

[corinne_smith14]

Thank you! I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction!