Archive for December 2nd, 2009

fractions with play dough

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

We had some feedback from a Year 1 and 2 teacher at Stockdale Road Primary School in Traralgon about how her students still love play dough. One girl in particular is constantly drawn to it.

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She also has a fascination with traffic lights so was supplied with red, yellow and green play dough.

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She made four sets of traffic lights …

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… and went onto arrange them into four groups of  three…

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… and three groups of four.

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We put out the same colours for our kindergarten children and they had a ball with it …

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…  doing their own take on the activity.

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You can imagine the colour it ended up being after a very short time.

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What a great colour mixing activity.

We love hearing what our colleagues in primary school are doing with play based learning!!