Preschool Math Week 13

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.

- Color one number per day on the 100's Chart

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

- Practice counting from 31-40. Use flashcards and have child put them in order. Each day choose a “Number of the Day” between 31 and 40. Use these worksheets to practice tracing each number, or have them write the number of the day on the chalkboard. Count the “Thirty Family” (31-40) each day, then count from 1-40.

Day 1

Explore properties of shapes. Can you fill a circle with square Pattern Blocks? What shapes can you make with the square tiles? What shapes can you use to fill a triangle? What about a hexagon—can you show 6 different ways to cover it with your blocks? Fill in this Shapes Table with the correct # of lines and sides in each Pattern Block shape. (In the “Looks Like” column, you could just draw or trace the shape.)

Create a Robot or Monster with your Pattern Blocks. Use the Shape Graph to record how many of each shape you use to create it.

Practice tracing shapes with colored pencils.

Day 2

Play the Floor Shape Movement Game (review from Week 2).

Dot Marker Shapes

Create a Missing Numbers Worksheet with numbers from 0-30.

Day 3

Introduce the Geoboard. First allow the child to make observations about the board. Tell him it is used to make designs, shapes and lines with a “geoband” or a rubber band. Demonstrate putting a band on the board by putting it around one peg, putting your finger on that peg and stretching the band to another peg with your free hand. Allow the child to make whatever lines and shapes they want. Remind him to put his finger on the peg with the band or the band will come off.

Write numbers from 0-40 (choose about 20 randomly) on large pieces of paper, or use large flashcards, and place them around the floor. You could play one of 3 games: Musical Numbers (hop from number to number until the music stops, then call out the number you landed on); Collect the Numbers (pick up the numbers as fast as you can in order); or Number Hop (call out a number and have child find it and hop to it).

Day 4

Use these Geoboard Task Cards to help your child create specific shapes and designs on the Geoboard.

Use this Geoboard Dot Paper to draw your own designs for the child to copy on his Geoboard.