Preschool Math Week 5

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
- "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.
- "Today's weather is..." & "Today I Feel..." page w/ dry erase marker
- Color one number per day on the 100's Chart
- #8, 9, 10 coloring/ tracing pages
- "School Rules" and/or "Our Daily Schedule"

Day 1

Read Opposites (Sandra Boynton). Practice some opposites using these ideas.

Find all the shoes in the house. Line them up in order from biggest to smallest.

Sort these rainbows in order from biggest to smallest.

Color & decorate the #11 poster for your number book.

Day 2

Simple “War” Card Game: Deal all the cards (without ace and face cards) to each player face down. Each player turns over a card at the same time. The person with the highest card gets to take both cards. Whoever gets the whole deck at the end is the winner.

#11 Worksheet

Choose a few favorite activities from Romping & Roaring #11 Pack from 3 Dinosaurs.

“Coloring 1 to 15” 10-Part Puzzle for Number 11—after coloring, cut the strips apart and have child put them back together in order.

Day 3

Use your Unifix/ linking cubes and these printables to demonstrate “more,” “less,” and “same.”

Play some more with the Pattern Blocks, using Pattern Block Mats.

Color & decorate the #12 poster for your Number Book.

Complete some #1-20 Dot Marker Pages (any numbers from 1 to 12).

Day 4

Big vs. Small Worksheet

Use different lengths of paper strips to compare “shorter” vs. “longer” using this recording sheet.

Size Comparison Worksheet

Play some math games with Lego blocks (or use your Unifix/ linking cubes). Line several blocks up and have your child tell similarities in each (color or size). Or, create a series of towers: 1 block, then 2, then 3, etc. Have the child figure out how many should go next.

Complete some favorite activities from 3 Dinosaurs' Romping & Roaring #12 Pack.