Math Activities
Give your child a handful of objects (pennies, cereal, crayons.....) and have them touch and pull objects toward them as they count. (Practice counting up to 20.)
Have your child count to 20 each night after supper.
Give your child a handful of assorted items. Have your child sort the items and put them into groups or categories. Example: Give your child a pile of assorted change coins. Encourage your child to group the coins by size, shape, or color. Next make a line of pennies, a line of dimes, and a line of nickels. Discuss more and less.
Give your child two small handfuls of two different objects and have them create a pattern.
(ABABABAB or ABBABBABB or AAABAAABAAAB or AABBAABBAABB or ABCABCABC)
Look for shapes in every day life and name them. This is a great game for car trips!
(Circle, triangle, square, and rectangle)
Take four random cards from a deck of cards and put them in order from lowest to highest number. (Exclude face cards)
Use dominoes for this game too!
More Less and Equal Number Game
More Wins:
The deck of cards is divided into halves, one for each player and placed face down. Each turns up a card and the higher card captures the other card. In order to claim the cards the winner must use appropriate language to express the relationship between the two numbers. For example, if the players turn up a nine and a five , the player who has the nine must say "nine is more than five " before taking the pack. Play continues until the turned cards are the same. When the cards are the same shout "equal number" and each player keeps their card. Play continues until all cards are played. Each person counts their collected cards. The winner is the person with the most cards!
Less Wins:
Same as the game above but the person with less wins the game. "2 is less than five so I win this hand"
Use a different writing tools each day to print numerals 1-10.
Shaving cream on a cookie sheet
Magna Doodle board
Magic Board
Dry Erase Board with Markers
Chalk board
Paint brush with paints
Special markers, pencils, or pens
Around we go to make a zero
Straight line down, then we're done that's the way to make a one
Around and back on the railroad track..... Two, Two..
Around a tree, around a tree, that's the way to make a three
Down and over and down once more, that's the way to make a four
Grab your hat, go down the street and around the corner
Stick and a hoop do the tricks, that's the way to make a six
Across and down, it rhymes with eleven, that's the way to make a seven
Make an S and do not wait, go back up and that's an eight!
A loop and a line, that's a nine.