Class Visit

On February 8, 2007 we went to visit kindergarten kids in order to do experiments with them. Three out of five experiments I’ve done are making a stairs out of color pencils, coins, and having 5 squares and 4 circles with the same color. For the making a stairs out of color pencils, two kids fail to do it. One kid says he can’t do it straight away but another does it incorrectly. And other 4 kids had done it correctly. For the coin experiment, I made two line of coin, one line got 10 coins but close together and the other lines got 9 coins but are separately, then ask them which line got more coin. The result came out to be that 2 kids counted the amount of coins and the other done the same, so they all got correct answers. The third experiment is lining up 5 squares and 4 circles, all of it are in color blue. When all the shape are lined up, then I asked the kid whether are there more squares or more blues, and all answers incorrectly that there were more squares.

The result show that most no one got all correct answer and this show that the kids are at the preoccupation stage.