Stations

This week Joe Schwartz created a post about visiting Nicole Rocha's first grade class. In her classroom, the students are broken up into stations to work on their math skills. Stations in classrooms has been around for a while, but it takes a lot of work and patience to get it right, especially with young students. Nicole Rocha did a great job. She begins her math section everyday by having the students count the days they have been in school.

Rocha has her students add a straw to the pocket each day of school. Once there are ten straws in the ones place, the students remove them and place one in the tens. The same is done in the tens place to the hundreds place.

Rocha also has her students count the number of days in school by using coins. She then breaks her students up into what she calls "exploration" centers.

Rocha has the students place blocks into a number egg container. The students then close and shake the container up. When they open it, they are to added up the numbers where the blocks lye.

Another station used geoboards and rubber bands to create different types of triangles.

In this station, students used shaped blocks to create other shapes. They were then asked to write the numbers of blocks used to recreate the shape.

The final station consisted of students working in their workbook.