Measurement Olympics

We are taking about mass and measurements. So today we participated in the Mini Measurement Olympics.

We modified the Mini Metric Olympics from here. We talked about centimeters, meters, inches, feet, milliliters, cups, grams, and pounds. For our events today we used inches and feet for our distance. (As this is what our measuring tape was in). We used grams for the weight with our kitchen scale, and we looked at both milliliters and cups for our volume.

Keep reading to see how they did in the different events.

Number board

Today for math we used our 110 number board. We alternated taking turns. This this is a wonderful way to individualize their instruction but still not have to spend double the amount of time.

Keep reading to see how we incorporated these skills: number recognition & names, adding, place value, rounding, skip counting.

Math: Even & Odd Numbers

Today we focused on even and odd numbers. We started off by hearing the book Even Steven and Odd Todd by Kathryn Cristald.

Keep reading to see how we used our number board to practice this concept.

Hot Wheels & Numbers

This week we have been working on our beginning of the year assessments. This will give us a good ideas for our starting place and will show is how much progress was made throughout the year.

One of our checks was on number recognition and subitizing. (Subitizing is when you can quickly county without actually counting. Like how we know 4 dots is 4 on a die.) So we set up a large piece of cardboard, numbered Hot Wheel cars, and 10 Frame cards.

Like most activities, I let them have a bit of free play at the start. Then I slowly add some directives, usually with some leading questions.

Chalk Math

The weather is beautiful this morning, so we brought our math outside. We then divided our problems in half and did distance learning with our friends.

Keep reading to see the rest of our problems.

Activity: Dry Erase Pockets

Both my kids like using the dry erase markers so we got a couple of the Dry Erase Pockets. We have used these for many activities. The nice thing is you can or a paper inside & they can write on top of it, erase it, do it again, but not change the original. Continue for examples of use!

File Folder Activities

With our part day school we find ourselves with some small chunks of time that are enough to do something but not enough time to really go home. Or, we need an activity to help them as I am making dinner. So I have created some File Folder Activities. These are things that they can do which are all contained within a file folder.

I printed off different activities (found a lot of ideas on Pinterest), laminated the pieces, taped them to the inside of a file folder, and then used Velcro dots so the pieces can move around but also stay in place.

Activity: Lego Dice Game

Thanks to The Dad Lab we tried this Lego Dice Game. We have played it several times lately and the kids are enjoying this. We each picked a Lego person, and then rolled the dice. Whatever number came up we stacked that number of legos on top of each other. We took turns rolling & stacking. We kept going & saw who had the highest tower. (Only stopping when either: the tower fell, it was time to go, or we ran out of single Duplo blocks.)