Winside First Grade: First Grade Math and First Grade Chef

The boys and girls have been busy working with lots of hands on materials in math including blocks, cubes, straws, sticks, beads, and small marshmallows. They have worked on the concept of place value in the tens and ones place using all the different manipulatives listed. Making sure a student has ample hands on experience is vital before moving to the written abstract symbols. On Friday the First Graders even make a live bundle of ten with the ones left over. See below.

See the bundle of 10 students (They used a jump rope.) and 7 individual students outside the bundle of ten. 1 ten and 7 ones equals 17.

First Grade Chef also incorporated the concept of place value. First of all, each student received a chef hat to decorate for the year. Twice a month the class will enjoy First Grade Chef. Recipes will include delicious, healthy, kid-friendly snacks. This Friday the pint-sized chefs created healthy smiles. The boys and girls learned the vocabulary word ingredients. This recipe required small marshmallows, red apple slices, and peanut butter. Utensils included plastic knives and paper plates. The class counted the marshmallows by placing them into cups of ten. See below.


How many groups of ten? First Grader answer: 8 groups of ten which equals 80

Each student took two red apple slices, slathered peanut butter on each slice, placed three marshmallows between, pressed slices together and walla--an apple smiley! The marshmallows are the teeth, peanut butter the gums, and red apple slices are the lips. The class discussed the food groups that each ingredient belonged to: apples to the fruit group, peanut butter to the protein group, and marshmallows that are sugar which should be eaten sparingly. See the chefs and their creations below: