Curriculum Guides

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Content Area: Fraction and Decimals

Skills: Half/Whole

Prerequisites: Children would have already been taught some shapes.

Instructional Practices: Problem Solving, Communication, Reasoning and Connections to the Real World.

Materials Needed: Eating Fractions by: Bruce McMillan (Big Book), construction paper shapes, bread, peanut butter, and play dough.

Technology:

Activity: Teacher talks about whole, equal and unequal parts by using cut out shapes of circles, squares, rectangles and etc. Teacher reads big book Eating Fractions to students. At centers students use play dough to roll out pizza shapes and divide them into two equal parts showing halves. For a picnic students make their own peanut butter sandwiches and cut them in half using plastic knives. show examples of equal and unequal parts. Talk about whole and half.

Theme Ideas: You may use this when doing a unit on food or you may use it when doing a unit on bears and have a teddy bear picnic that the students prepare.