Category: Math

  • Christmas Tree Math {ordering by length}

    Christmas Tree Math {ordering by length}

    This is a great project that I’ve done almost every year in my classroom. It’s a great Christmas craft, but in addition your child can work on ordering objects by length and the math vocabulary and concept of longer and shorter. Christmas Tree Math 9×12 Piece of Green Construction Paper Large (18×24) Piece of White…

  • Spider Counting Game

    Spider Counting Game

    Landon has been chugging away at learning numbers. He’s able to count to the mid twenties except he ALWAYS skips 15. It’s ok – when he was 2-ish he would always count: 1-2-3-4-9-10, and be SO excited that he could count to 10. This is a great Halloween themed game and only costs $1.00 to…

  • Apple and Worm Counting {and Blog Hop!}

    Apple and Worm Counting {and Blog Hop!}

    Johnny Appleseed’s birthday is coming up soon, the 26th of September to be exact. He would be 238 today! In honor of his birthday I have a cute apple counting activity for you! We just recently did a bunch of apple activities and I had an idea of doing something like this then, but it never…

  • Gelatin Math

    Gelatin Math

    Gelatin math? Yeah, you read right! Today we worked on number recognition and counting and had a blast getting messy at the same time! Gelatin Math Unflavored Gelatin food coloring (optional) Marbles or other counters Number cards Mix 1 packet of gelatin in 1/2 cup warm water and mix, add 1 cup cold water in…

  • 10 Apples Up On Top Project

    10 Apples Up On Top Project

    This is a cute 10 Apples Up on Top project I pulled from my files as a Kindergarten teacher. The kids LOVED this activity. Not only is the story a cute one this project allows children to practice counting, number writing, and number sequencing. Landon had fun with this too – so it’s totally modifiable…

  • Apple Counting Game

    Apple Counting Game

    As we were eating breakfast this morning, this idea for a counting game came to me. So while Landon was finishing up his breakfast, I whipped up this little activity. After we played it and I tweaked my original plan around, then came to the huge realization that the game had pretty much morphed into…

  • Dinosaur Hop

    Dinosaur Hop

    This is a very versatile game that can be adapted to whatever skill your child is working on. All you need is flash cards of whatever skill you’re working on and copies of the dinosaur foot print, custom colored of course! Then as your child names whatever flash card you are working on they get…

  • Math Mats

    Math Mats

    Math mats are a wonderful way to scaffold and expose children to number sense concepts, like one-to-one correspondence, counting, and number recognition. The idea originated with an old program – Math Their Way (I think). I used math mats as a kindergarten student teacher with Mrs. Kliefoth in Thermalito back in “the day”, and was…