Preschool Math Week 16

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 41-50. Use flashcards and have child put them in order. Each day choose a “Number of the Day” between 41 and 50. Use these worksheets to practice tracing each number, or have them write the number of the day on the chalkboard. Count the “Forty Family” (41-50) each day, then count from 1-50.

Day 1

Discuss the meaning of weight—how heavy something is. Using only your hands to feel and guess the weight of objects, have your child tell you some objects in the room that are heavier than a water bottle (ex: a table, a person, a dictionary, a can of beans, etc.).

Complete this Sorting Worksheet to determine which objects are heavy and which are light (scroll all the way down to find the printables).

Review the Skip Counting by 10’s song from last week and practice jumping to the 10’s numbers in order by using these Counting by 10’s Cards.

Day 2

Practice using a bucket balance to compare weights of objects. Using this worksheet (“What’s Heavier?”—all the way at the bottom of the page), have children compare various objects to an apple to determine which is heavier.

Then, continue practicing with the balance by trying to determine which objects—or how many objects it would take—weigh the same as a small object of your child’s choice (a toy car or small doll, for example). Give them a variety of objects, such as pattern blocks, teddy bear counters, crayons, etc. and have them determine how many of each object is needed to equal the weight of their toy.

Use the “Coloring Shape Patterns” worksheet to practice with different pattern sets. (Have child color the first using AB pattern, second using ABA, and so on.)

Day 3

Continue practice with the bucket balance by using the “Balancing Cubes” worksheet in the packet from Day 1. Determine how many linking cubes or Legos it would take to balance using each object.

Play Domino War. Play similarly to War with cards. Have child flip over a Domino from his/ her pile at the same time as you flip one. Without counting, have him quickly guess who’s number is higher. (Then let him count if necessary.) The higher number Domino takes both Dominoes until one player has all the Dominoes.

Day 4

Begin practicing reading/ recognizing number words. Use the “Coloring 1-15 Ten-Part Puzzles (1-10)” Number One puzzle to learn the word for number one.

Review pennies and dimes by practicing sorting them into two piles and counting.

Have some PlayDoh fun with these Shape Playdoh Mats.