Saturday, March 14, 2015
Spring ideas
Valentine's special hearts
Winter crafts
Valentine's ideas
Choose some nice and colorful paper, give the child a pair of scissors or help the child cut out a heart. They can decorate it with glitter, picture from magazines, pieces of paper they cut or ripped with their hands, stickers or anything you have at home, even buttons work, then glue the heart on a wooden stick. You can use red gems to fill a heart-shaped muffin tray and of course bake heart shaped cookies and decorate them with your kids :)
Winter counting and number identification practice
Monday, January 12, 2015
Buttons Math practice
If your child can sum, ask him/her to use two dice and work out the sum then place the corresponding amount of buttons on the snowman. If the child is too young for that, work on number recognition and counting with a numbered die instead.
Winter stamps are always fun!Roll a snowman
The child rolls two dice and sums them up, then covers the corresponding number on the snowman.
ABC snowman
The child picks an upper case magnetic letter and covers the corresponding lower case letter with a manipulative (beads, pom poms, small winter table decorations, etc.)
Foam mittens
Foam mittens can also be decorated. Ask the child to roll a die and decorate the mittens with the corresponding amount of, say, beads, plastic snowflakes, or anything else you might have at home.
Winter crafts
For the snowman craft, we used toilet paper roll and covered it with a Christmas napkin, the same one we used for the scarf. We painted the snowman by using a pom pom.
Christmas counting activity
I made a paper Christmas tree and snowman and asked the kids to decorate them by rolling a die and placing the corresponding amount of rubber decorations on them.
Snowman activity
Shopping game
I came up with an after-school game that can be used for kids of different ages.
I wrote a "shopping list" that goes like this:
5 blue
The child needs to go around the house and find 5 blue objects and place them in their shopping bag.
For my 2 year old, I only wrote the number and drew a blue circle. For my 5 year old, I wrote the number and the word for blue with some missing letters she had to fill in.
I gave each child the same colors but different amounts.
When they were done shopping, I placed some color cards on the floor and asked them to sort their "groceries" by color. Then I asked my oldest one to find out how many objects of the same color they had found. In order to do this, I wrote on a piece of paper the number of objects of, say, red, that her sister had to get and she added her amount from her shopping list and wrote the sum. We did this for every color.
Number board and how to use it
This easy to make number board can be used in so many different ways!
I made Halloween cards, each with a different amount of Halloween stickers on them and asked my children to match the card with the corresponding number on the board.
I also wrote the same numbers on another set of cards and asked my children to match them on the number board.
You can also have the child close their eyes and touch a number on the board. Let's say he/she picks 8. Then you ask the child to do something 8 times, like clap their hands or run on the spot or hop.
Playdoh fun (Math activity)
We used our home made playdoh.
Hidden numbers
When the child finds it, ask him/her to either place it on the matching number on the sheet or to color the matching number on the sheet.
ABC pumpkin activity with paper dice
Also good for fine motor skills and can be used as a matching lower case/uppercase activity.
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