Skip Counting

We spent a few days reviewing and practicing skip counting from Kinder. The students each colored a pair of socks and added it to a clothesline. As a class, we practiced counting them by two. We then did the same thing with handprints and practiced counting them by fives. We discussed which one was faster (counting by fives) because five is a larger number than two. This led to a discussion that counting by tens in place value in faster because ten is a larger number. Fellow teachers, in my class I have a number line in our whole group area. I use garage sale dot stickers of various colors to mark where skip counting patterns. For example, the multiples of 5 all have a pink sticker and the multiples of 10 all have a yellow sticker. We practice counting these at transition times and as we have a spare moment here and there.