Preschool Math Week 8

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.
- Introduce the 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.

- #15 &16 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

Use teddy bear counters to learn ordinal position. Using one of each color (up to 5 or 6), pretend the bears are in line to ride a ride at the carnival. One at a time, have the child place them in “line,” using the words “first,” “second,” “third,” and “fourth” (or “last”). Mix them up and place them back in line, then ask the child which is 2^nd, which is 3^rd, and so on. You could also use toy cars or small dolls to demonstrate, as well.

“Match it Up” Card Game to practice ordinal position. (You can use only #’s 1-5 to make it easier.)

Practice #17 with this Counting Socks Worksheet.

Day 2

Color each of these ice cream scoops a different color. Then have your child glue them together into the cone with the instructions that the “brown” scoop goes first, the “red” scoop goes 2^nd, etc. (using whatever colors they chose).

Read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss & try some of these activities. Specifically, the graphing activity with colored goldfish would be great review.

#17 & 18 Coloring Pages

Day 3

Do some review with this Sandwich Shop Math Game from Week 2. You could add in a lesson on ordinal numbers by calling out which part of the sandwich to put on “first,” “second,” etc.

Review the Shape Sorting & Graphing Game from last week. After making a “graph” of the shapes with all the same colors in rows and all the same shapes in columns, remove one shape while the child is not looking and have him guess which shape/size/color is missing. Allow the child to take turns with you removing a piece to guess which is missing.

#18 Handwriting Practice Worksheet

Day 4

Play Number Hide and Seek. Hide your Number Flashcards (or large pieces of paper with one number on each) around the room. Have the child find each one and call out the number as he/ she finds it. Then put them in order!

Dog Ordinal Number Puzzle

Ordinal Numbers Worksheet