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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?

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

- 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

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.

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.

Preschool Math Week 15

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

- 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

Sing this song to begin memorizing counting by 10’s.

Using these Counting by 10’s Cards, have your child place them in order from smallest to greatest. Point out that if he/she covers up the “0”, it is the same as lining them up from 1-10.

Now practice taking numbers out of the sequence and having the child guess which number is missing.

Place the numbers on the floor in random order and have your child jump to each number in the correct order when they count by 10’s.

Day 2

Use this “Skip Counting Color-In” Worksheet to color in the Counting by 10’s. Point out the numbers’ placement on the 100’s Chart.

Introduce the dime. Talk about its shape and color, what is on the heads side, what is on the tails side, etc. Then tell the child the dime is equal to ten cents. Remind them when we counted pennies, we counted by 1’s because the penny is equal to one cent. So when we count dimes, we count by 10’s. Practice counting by 10’s as you push the dimes to the opposite side of your table. Be sure to point out that when we get to one hundred, we say “one dollar.”

Create a “store” with items that are 10¢, 20¢, 30¢, 40¢, and so on… Allow your child to “purchase” an item and pay for it using dimes.

Create your own “Order the Numbers” Worksheet with numbers up to 40. If this is too hard, you could use flashcards and place them in the order shown on the worksheet and allow child to manipulate them to put them in the correct order.

Day 3

Practice Skip Counting by 10’s with this maze.

Practice working with large numbers like 100. Find 100 of any particular item: straws, Unifix cubes, cereal, beads, etc. (Here are some ideas.) Have your child determine how to count the large number by grouping them into piles of 10 each. Take some away and repeat the activity with a smaller number and group by 10’s.

Do some review of estimation. Using your same item of 100, or using Cheerios, place a handful on a laminated 100’s Chart. Have your child estimate how many he/she thinks are on the mat. Then have him/ her place one on each number on the chart in order to count the total. (Idea found here.)

Day 4

Try this Skip Counting by 10’s Number Order Puzzle.

Practice counting dimes with this worksheet.

Preschool Theme: Transportation

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Letter of the Week: T is for Trains

Zoomin' Movin' Alphabet: T is for Train (Royal Baloo)

Math Activities:

- Train Measuring

- Transportation Patterning

- Transportation Roll & Graph

- Transportation Number Order

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- Trucks Pattern Cards

printable truck pattern cards for preschoolers - the measured mom070

- Dump Truck Counting Mat

- Transportation Count & Clip Cards

transportation count and clip cards - the measured mom090

- Transportation Memory Match Game

free transportation matching game

- Shape Bus

- Traffic Light Color Matching Activity

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- Train Number Matching Puzzles

- Train Missing Number Cut & Paste

- Train Odd & Even Number Sorting

- Train Left vs. Right Sorting

Pre-Writing Activities:

- T for Train Letter Craft

- Transportation Word Puzzles

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- Highway ABC Cards

- Transportation Beginning Writing

- Alphabet Car Game

- Dot the T's on the Train

- Paste the Trains on the "T"

- Uppercase/ Lowercase T Sorting

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- Transportation Toys Dot Printables

Transportation Toys Do-a-Dot Printables with 29 pages of do-a-dot worksheets featuring cars, trucks, buses, construction vehicles, trains, planes, helicopters, and boats || Gift of Curiosity