SC Kindergarteners Engage in Math & Movement Skills Outdoors

Gorgeous weather for outdoor learning! On October 23, Sea Cliff kindergarteners happily went outside to participate in an interdisciplinary 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
• 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 Principal Ms. McCormack for assisting in this fun, interdisciplinary, outdoor lesson combining math and movement skills. Go Vikings Go!

Article written with direction from Ms. Megan McCormack

Photos by Shelly Newman