It's been a wild and crazy week, to be sure. The children's level of kinetic energy was off the scale on Wednesday when the Early Childhood Division went to the Pete Maravich Assembly Center to watch the Lady Tigers play basketball. We went to support our woman's basketball coach, who is also a PBS parent, but to be honest, I have to say that I had my Grinch-y moments. ("All the noise, noise, noise, noise!") Being responsible for 16 very excited children on their way to a tumultuous activity such as a basketball game is like driving through a mine field in a truck carrying flammable materials. Something's bound to explode. It seemed like the main purpose of the trip was fun, but it turned out to be quite a good math lesson for the kindergarten students. The boys and girls may not have understood the rules of the game, but they did keep their eyes on the scoreboard. I was pleased to see that most of my class recognized numbers to 100 (or at least to 89---the number of points scored by LSU). They learned to add on 2 points each time the team scored, and could answer questions like, "If we have 48 points, how many more points do we need to have 50 points?" They clearly understood that LSU had the greater number of points throughout the game. Final score: 89-41.
