Weekly Observation : )

This week during observation, the activities that were offered to the children were; playing with trains, water colors, weighing pumpkins and measuring them. The activity they seemed most excited about was measuring and weighing the pumpkins, all the kids raised their hand that they wanted to do that activity. When they began, a little girl said "I think mines is taller." The teacher said out loud "I wonder how heavy the pumpkins are?" The kids were observing the scale, they realized that when they take the pumpkins off the scale it goes back to zero, one of the boys pointed that out right away.  One of the little boys said pointing at the scale, " It's pointing to 1 when i put my pumpkin there." When the teacher asked him how much it weighed, he responded "One?" They were really understanding this concept.

This activity was teaching them about measurements, there was math involved but it made it really fun for them. This activity also implemented sharing since there was only one scale and they had to take turns.

Since the kids were enjoying this activity and really getting something from it, the next day I would reiterate what we saw the previous day when they were measuring pumpkins and this time taking a balancing scale and having them place different small items on each side and having them figure out what side they need to place more items on to make it balance, it will probably take many attempts but they will get practice.