In October 2022, Sea Cliff kindergarteners happily participated in an interdisciplinary outdoor lesson combining math and movement skills. For weeks, students have been working on number lines, number identification and sorting and grouping objects.

The outdoor activities included:

• Jumping through math and movement mats while reciting numbers
• Hopping down a number line from spot-to-spot reciting numbers
• Tossing a bean bag and identifying the number on the bean bag as well as on the mat where the bean bag landed
• Tracing numbers that our fourth graders helped write on the blacktop in chalk
• Matching a dice with dots with the correct number

Interim Principal Megan McCormack said, “This interdisciplinary activity allowed our Sea Cliff kindergarteners to use their gross motor abilities to strengthen and reinforce their mathematical skills in the areas of counting, sorting and number recognition. Our students were engaged and excited to combine movement and math skills outdoors on the blacktop!”

Thank you to all of the Sea Cliff School K teachers and Interim Principal McCormack for assisting in this fun, interdisciplinary, outdoor lesson combining math and movement skills.