Math Centres

This week, we started Math centres in our classroom.  We had four centres running: a shape centre, a money centre, an addition centre, and a time centre.  In the shape centre we played a shape game, where we got to pick shapes out of a box, without looking, and match them to the shape on the board.  This helps us identify a variety of 2-D shapes.  In the money centre, we got to play the game "Pig Out".  In this game you role a dice for pennies that you eventually trade in for dimes or nickels.  This teaches us the value of coins.  Then, we practiced telling time in our time centre, where each of us had the chance to tell time to the hour or half past the hour.  In our addition centre we played a dice game, so we could practice using the doubles plus one strategy.  We enjoyed working in our Math centres.