Mr. Tenny loves to eat numbers! We reviewed our numbers 1-12 this week as we strengthened our hand muscles in preparation for writer’s workshop that begins next week. Keep working on those name during homework!
Basic math and number concepts utilized in a preschool or kindergarten prep classroom set the foundation for learning more advanced math concepts. Early exposure to math and number activities will promote your child’s comfort with these skills. Also, additional opportunities to practice these skills will increase your child’s confidence when working with math and number concepts and will lead him to believe he is “good at math.” Click HERE for some fun activities to do with your child at home in all areas of math.
Ordering objects, cards, pictures in order from smallest to biggest and biggest to smallest is a foundational math skill. Seriation is an important building block for other math concepts. This can be a very easy skill to practice at home. Let your little one put silverware, pots/pans, books, cups, boxes in order from smallest to biggest. Use questions to help guide them through the process. Which one looks a little bigger? What object do you think is next? Have fun with it! They did GREAT with this skill today!
The preschoolers have been practicing one-to-one correspondence. It is important to always start at the top and count left to right. When we reach the end of a row we need to start back at the beginning of the next row. Teaching children a method for counting can help with accuracy. It is easy to forget which objects we have counted when we are just pointing in any order we want! We rolled the dice, counted how many we got, then counted using our magic finger to discover which animal we needed to color. This is a really important foundational skill for math in general. Games such as Candyland, Monopoly, and Chutes & Ladders are great ways to practice one-to-one correspondence. Any time a child has to count objects individually is a GREAT way to practice at home!
We found a pot that our leprechaun left behind in one of our St Patrick’s Day Small Groups! Check out what we found inside!
Sorting and Counting Lucky Charms Marshmallows
Eating the Colors of the Rainbow! We ate every color of the rainbow during snack time…even if we thought we “didn’t like it,” everyone tried one bite of each color. Many of us learned that we like some new fruits today…AND never to be afraid of trying something new! You may love it and be missing out!
We continued working on learning about the difference between 2D and 3D shapes during out math study this week. The children have also been brushing up on their 2D shape recognition as well as working on recognizing the 3D shapes: sphere, cube, cone, pyramid, rectangular prism, triangular prism, and cylinder. We’ve been singing a shape name game song during group time each day to help us remember all of these new shapes. CLICK on the first picture below to link to the video we’ve been using. It’s a FUN way to continue the practice at home.
Creative Tots has specialized in the private education of both toddlers and preschool age children for over 15 years. We began in the heart of Madeira and now also have a new Mason location. We are specifically designed to focus on early childhood development for children ages 18 months to 5 years.
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