Preschool Math Week 17

Daily Calendar Time

See the overview for Calendar Time.

Here is what to include this week:

- Include a “Skip Counting by 10’s” Maze in a sheet protector with a dry erase marker to practice counting by 10’s
- 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.
- Weather Graph

- 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 51-60. Use flashcards and have child put them in order. Each day choose a “Number of the Day” between 51 and 60. Use these worksheets to practice tracing each number, or have them write the number of the day on the chalkboard. Count the “Fifty Family” (51-60) each day, then count from 1-60.

Day 1

Introduction to telling time:

Use some songs to remind child how many months are in a year. Then discuss how many days are in a week. Now challenge them by asking how many hours are in a day? How many minutes are in an hour? What do we use to tell what time of day it is? Go on a “clock” hunt around the house. Show your child several different types of clocks—digital and analog, watches, etc. and talk about why we need them to tell us when things will happen.

Now create your own large clock. Use a large magnetic pizza pan or cookie sheet and magnetic numbers 1-12 to create a clock. Find something else magnetic to use for arrows. Compare this to a regular clock so your child can see that there is both a small hand and a long hand. Move the small hand to various numbers and ask child what number the small hand is pointing to. Then put the long hand on the 12 and tell him that when the long hand is on the 12, we say “o’clock” after the number on the short hand. Demonstrate with a few different times. Allow child to show you a time you call out.

Then, cut apart the digital times shown on this page and read each to your child, showing them how the colon followed by two zeros tells us we have to say “o’clock” after the first number. Help them see how this correlates with what they just learned on the large clock. Use a smaller, more realistic looking demonstration clock as well, to help make the connection.

Cut apart the analog clocks on the same page and have your child match them to the correct digital time. Play a matching game, flipping all the cards over and turning them over two at a time until a player gets a match.

Day 2

Make your own clock from a paper plate. Have child write the clock numbers on small pieces of paper and glue them onto the clock in the correct order.

Use this worksheet for more practice matching times.

Write numbers from 0-60 (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 3

Now let’s talk about what types of things we do at particular times of the day. Discuss morning, afternoon, and night. Choose some of these Daily Routine flashcards showing activities you and your child do every day. Using your large magnetic clock from Day 1, match the cards to the approximate hour you do that activity, being sure to discuss whether that time is in the morning, afternoon, or nighttime.

Try another worksheet for practice telling time.

Day 4

Create your own worksheet to have your child to practice “Draw the Times” given an analog time.

Practice reading the times on the clock by playing your own game of BINGO.

Learn the number word “two.” Use these 1 to 15 4-Part Puzzles for number one & two to begin to recognize the word for the numbers. You can also use these Number Word Cards to practice spelling the numbers with letter magnets.