Matching Numerals

Activity:  Match the numeral card to the number word card and the shape quantity card.

 

Standards

 

Kansas Early Learning Standards

 

ATL.p3.1:

Sustains attention to task, especially when adults offer suggestions, comments and questions as a means of support.

 

 ATL.p3.3:

Remembers and follows one or two step directions.

 

ATL.p3.4:

Practices an activity many times until successful.

M.CC.p3.2:

Demonstrates an understanding that number names can be represented with a written numeral.

 

M.CC.p3.5: 

Uses number words to indicate the quantity in small sets.

 

M.G.p3.2: Correctly names shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size

 

Common Core Standards

 

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

 

Each color coded card has a numeral, a shape representing a numeral, or a number word.

 

N placed the numbers in order first.

N found the quantity cards that represent the number.

The color coding helped N recognize which word matched the number.

 

Ladybug Math

Ladybug Math

 I found an activity on Pinterest recently that looked a little like this, (found here: http://www.love-and-lollipops.blogspot.com/2010/09/colour-fun-6-bottle-top-ladybugs.html) but I have added my own twist to it.  Reusing milk bottle caps and a peanut butter jar I now have one activity that all 4 of my kiddos can play with.

K, my one year old, is fascinated with putting things into a container and taking them out.  The jar is large enough that her hands aren't going to get stuck.  Oh, and she also enjoys dumping them out!

K likes to put the ladybugs into the jar...

...and take them out...

...and put the lid on.

L, my 5 year old/soon to be kindergartner, can match the dots to the correct number, and put them in numerical order.

L is matching ladybug dots to the correct number.

 N, my 2/almost 3 year old works on naming the numbers and counting the dots.

N likes to mix them up!

All lined up!

Such a simple, FREE activity you can make at home!  Just save those bottle caps and jars!

Activities for my almost 7 year old and older students:
~ make one bottle cap with a plus sign, one with a minus sign, and one with an equal sign, and create number problems. (extra:  have them write them out on paper or in their workbook!)
~ make one bottle cap (slightly larger) with a greater than sign (>) or a less than sign (<) and have him draw bottle caps out of the jar and compare the numbers

Other Pre-K to Kindergarten activities:
~ draw out a bottle cap and use another object (little erasers, pom-poms, straws, popcicle sticks, etc.) to count out that number

Letter Matching

For this activity I made a capital and lowercase letter chart in L's workbook:  3 columns and 9 rows.  In each box I wrote the letters in very small writing.  L will match up his letters from the stickers to the letters in the box. 

I also used my small stickers from a previous activity to write the letter sets.  I cut the sheet of stickers in half and used three halves for this activity.  This way he only had 9 letter sets at a time to work with (Aa-Ii, Jj-Rr, and Ss-Zz).

His dinosaur friend kept watch for him.

L working on matching his letters.  In the future I won't write the letters on the paper, but encourage him to figure out which letter comes next.  He still has to sing his ABC's a lot to figure out which letter comes next.  If working with his ABC's has taught him anything, it has at least taught him to say J-K-L-M-N-O-P (before those letters were unrecognizable).

All done!  He worked very hard on this and was proud of his work! 

ABC Order

L is putting his letter tiles in ABC order.

L is singing his ABC's and finding the letter that comes next. This activity reinforces letter recognition.


Now that they are in ABC order, I had L use the second color of letter tiles to match to the first set, once again reinforcing letter recognition.



L said he was finding each letter's "friend"! I thought that was a cute way of putting it!