Preschool Math Week 10

Daily Calendar Time

See the overview for Calendar Time.

Here is what to include this week:
- What is today's date? Song-- use dry erase marker to write in every day
- Days of the Week Printable w/ song

- Use one of these songs to begin to learn the months of the year. Use this fun chart in your notebook to help remember them!
- "Today Is..."/ "Tomorrow Is..." Printable-- use with dry erase markers
- Trace the number of today's date on the Monthly Calendar
- Find the number of today's date on the picture and color it.
- Weather Graph—each day you will look outside to decide if the weather is sunny, cloudy, rainy, etc. and fill in one box on the graph in the appropriate row. At the end of the month, be sure to count totals for each type of weather.

- #19 & 20 Number Writing Practice Pages
- Color one number per day on the 100's Chart

- Continue to work on memorizing the child’s full name, parents’ names & address

Day 1

This week we will begin to learn about money. Begin by having  a simple discussion on what money is used for (food, toys, clothes, giving to others, house, etc.) Then show the child all different types of coins. You can tell them the name of each but don’t focus too much on any except the penny at this point. Allow him to look at the penny with a microscope. Talk about the “heads” side and the “tails” side. Allow the child to toss pennies into a cup and see whether they got heads or tails. Tell the child that the penny is worth one cent, so you count each one just like you would count anything else.

Coin Rubbing: Glue a penny to a small index card or piece of cardstock. Have the child place a thin piece of paper on top of it and use the flat side of a crayon to rub over the paper and make an impression of the coin on his paper.

Candy Store Game- Fill a small jar with “candy” (small craft pom poms, or real candy). Make money cards by gluing real pennies to small pieces of cardstock (or use coin stickers or just draw them). Have the child pick a card and “purchase” the same amount of candy by taking them from the jar.

 

Day 2

Using flashcards with numbers 1-20 on them, have your child match the appropriate number of pennies to each card.

“The Penny” Worksheet

Go on a Number Hunt Game (outside, or can be done inside) to practice recognizing numbers from 1-20.

Use Number Dice to practice writing numbers up to 20.

Day 3

Act out some story problems with pennies. Draw a picture of a pocket onto a piece of paper. Give the child an envelope or cup with pennies. Tell him you want him to put 4 pennies into his pocket. Help him count each penny as he places it in the pocket. Then tell him you want to put 2 more pennies. Then count to see how many pennies are in the pocket altogether. Count each one. (You can use words like 4 plus 2 equals 6 to show the child that he just added, but at this point that’s not as important.) Put all the pennies back in the cup and repeat, using different numbers. Have him take away one penny out of his pocket to also show subtraction.

“Pick the Pennies” Worksheet

Combine math with science: How Do You Clean a Penny? Science Experiment

Day 4

“Grocery Store” Game: Label real food items from your pantry with prices ranging from 1 to 10¢. Give your child a cup or bag full of pennies and allow him to “purchase” items as if he were really at the grocery store. As added practice with ordinal numbers, make a “conveyor belt” and place the items to be purchased in a line. Ask how much he will be paying for the 1^st item, then the 2^nd item, the 3^rd item and so on.

Roll & Stack Game: Roll a dice and have the child stack the matching amount of pennies on top of each other. Continue playing until they fall down.

#1-20 Four-Part Puzzles as a quiet activity to practice numbers.