Fifteen Tires Were on Top of a Hill...

Robbie recently had her kindergarteners write story problems. They thought of a situation that involved plus ("joining") or minus ("taking away"), then wrote the story, wrote the number sentence for the problem, and finally made a box with clay figures and other decorations showing the problem. Today, they demonstrated their work for the class.

There were 15 tires on top of a hill...



Then five of them rolled down the hill....



How many were left at the top of the hill?

Hope you got 15 - 5 = 10!

Sally the snake sees 5 dragonflies. 2 fly away. How many are left?



Did everybody get 3? If not, ask your nearest kindergartener for help.

Other problems involved bats or butterflies flying off into the great big world, horses venturing out from the safety of barns, and wolves scaring away some (but not all) of a group of farm animals. I'm no psychologist, but it's pretty easy to tell that kindergarten is drawing to a close!