Preschool Math Week 18

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.
- Weather Graph

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

- 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.

- Also practice counting backward from 10 to 1, as if you were on a rocket ship. If you need help, have the child look at the 100’s chart and point to each number.

Day 1

Act out stories using your teddy bear counters to demonstrate beginning addition and subtraction concepts. Pretend a piece of colored paper or small work mat is a movie theater (or some other place with chairs your child would be familiar with). Pretend your pattern blocks are chairs in the theater.

Have the child put x number (1-9) of same-shape pattern blocks on the work mat. Tell him/ her that when the bears go to the theater, they each need their own chair, so he/ she should put one bear on each block (chair). So how many bears can go to this theater? Now pretend x number of bears went to get popcorn. How many are watching the movie now? (Allow child to count remaining bears.) You can use proper wording for subtraction: “So 6 take away 2 equals 4…”, but don’t expect mastery of this. Continue to make up a story with bears leaving (to go to the restroom, to go home, etc.), and then more bears coming back (“So there were 3 bears, and 3 came back from the restroom—that equals 6 bears in the theater…”)

(At this point we are not going to memorize or learn addition & subtraction facts—just simply introduce the concept of adding & subtracting. Always allow the child to use manipulatives and count to figure out answers to problems.)

Numbers Card Game (reading 2-digit numbers): For this game, you will need 2 stacks of playing cards. In the 1^st stack, place the numbers A (1) to 5. In the second stack, place a mixture of numbers all the way to 9 (remove face cards). Have the child turn over one card from each stack and say the number they have made (so a 3 next to a 6 would be “36”). If he/ she says the correct number, he can keep both cards; if not, they must be returned to the deck.

Create your own “Missing Numbers” Worksheet with numbers up to 60 (select increment value of 6).

Day 2

Have your child make up his/ her own story using the teddy bears as you did yesterday. The bears can get on a bus, shop at the store, play at the park, etc. Help them make up scenarios in which some go away and later some come back. Only use numbers up to 10.

Using colored Goldfish crackers, or cut outs of red & blue goldfish, and this laminated fish bowl, have your child practice adding different numbers of fish. Use a dry-erase marker to fill in the numbers at the bottom and allow them to count the total number of fish.

Try this worksheet to practice writing in missing numbers from 1-50.

Day 3

Use another type of manipulative to tell story problems: the child’s favorite stuffed animals or small toys, matchbox cars, or even a snack food.

Review counting by 10’s & estimation. Collect up to 100 of any item (cereal, beans, pennies, paper clips, etc.)  and place them in a clear jar. Have child estimate how many he/she thinks there are, then practice counting them by putting them into groups of 10.

Learn the number word “three.” Use these 1 to 15 4-Part Puzzles for number three 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.

Day 4

Use these “Hands-On Math” Addition & Subtraction Gumball machines with gumball print-outs to practice manipulating numbers to add them or subtract them.

Use the same gumballs to practice sorting by color. Have child make a pile of each color gumball. Then, take some out of the stacks and have child make a “picture” graph using a row for each color. Which row has the most? Which row has the least?

Use the gumball machine and a gumball to test child’s knowledge of the following position words:

Inside or outside?

Above or below?

Top or bottom?