The
PreSchoolers have been completing a daily “Question of the day” for many months now.... A question of the day is an activity that we
use each morning during our Morning Meeting time to teach how to
collect and organize data in a graphic representation, as well as, teach them
to analyze the data. From a mathematical
standpoint, using a question of the day can help students understand and use
mathematical language such as more than, less than, equal, and the same.
Question of the day can also support literacy development because the students
are learning to recognize their names in print, understand that print has
meaning, track the print in the sentence, and use picture cues to help them
understand the text. We have certainly
enjoyed our daily questions and discovering more about each other too.
After many days.... We now create our own questions and make a "survey question" for friends to answer. Each student thinks of a question and then will ask friends to put an "X" under the appropriate column to collect the responses. The PreSchoolers have had some great questions.
"Do you like cookies?"
"Do you like pink or blue?"
"Do you have a pet?"
"Do you like rainy days?"
I just love it! It incorporates math standards (collecting and analyzing data, graphing, tallying, etc...) along with literacy standards. It also quickly became another classroom favorite which is further developing their independence, confidence and communication skills.
PreSchool "Question Surveys" in action...
