A few new math activities

Here are a few new math activities that are on the shelves this week.

I actually put this activity together this summer and blogged about it here.  However, I originally wanted to use 10 pipe cleaners and didn't have that many of the red "flower" beads.  After much searching in craft stores, I've been unable to find similar beads.  So..........I decided to put the work out using only numerals 1-5.  I have found (after having been away from teaching preschoolers for a while) that most preschoolers (and especially my first-year students) don't know many numerals nor are they able to do one-to-one correspondence past 5 very well.  So I think this will be a great addition to the math shelf.  This work will be available to students who have worked with the red and blue rods and sandpaper numerals 1-5.

Although this is a math exercise, I am going to try having it on the Practical Life shelf.  We'll see how it goes and maybe I'll decide to move it.  The children have had sorting nuts using tongs to transfer for several weeks.  You can see that activity in this post.  As I was changing out some seasonal things and putting some work away, I really wanted to still have a work out using nuts during November.  So.....I decided to keep the nuts and tongs and use my wooden divided bowl.  Then I thought it would be really cool to have the quantities varied instead of the same and add the numeral cards.  I am excited to see how the children respond to this new work.

Comments

[RM]

I appreciate this post. I have a list of things to make but didn't and in some cases couldn't go past 5. I was worried that this wold be wrong but for Egg I know that it could be the difference of enjoying the work and not. Ugh, I have so many thing to make and no energy. We tried to do nut transferring, lol, but we ended up trying to open the nuts. We were in hysterics as nuts and shells flew all round the room :0)