SC Kindergarteners Engage in Math & Movement Skills Outdoors

In November 2023, Sea Cliff kindergarteners happily participated in an interdisciplinary outdoor lesson combining math and movement skills. For weeks, students have been working on number lines, number identification (1-10), and sorting and grouping alike objects.

The outdoor activities included:

• Jumping through math and movement mats while reciting numbers
• Hopping down a number line from spot to spot reciting numbers
• Tossing a bean bag and identifying the number on the bean bag as well as on the mat where the bean bag landed
• Tracing numbers (1-10) that our 4th graders helped write on the blacktop in chalk
• Matching a dice with dots with the correct number 

Principal Ms. Megan McCormack said, “This interdisciplinary activity allowed our Sea Cliff kindergarteners to use their gross motor abilities to strengthen and reinforce their mathematical skills in the areas of counting, sorting, and number recognition. Our students were engaged and excited to combine movement and math skills outdoors on the black top!”  

Thank you to all of the Sea Cliff School K teachers and Interim Principal Ms. M. for assisting in this fun, interdisciplinary, outdoor lesson combining math and movement skills.

 

Article written with direction from Ms. Megan McCormack                                                                                                                                    Photos by Shelly Newman