Learning with lids in preschool
Lids are a wonderful resource to invite all kinds of early learning and development. We spent the day learning with LOTS of lids in our preschool classroom!
The key to coming up with great ideas for math in early childhood is to focus on mathematical thinking. What will get your child to using math in play? Whether your child is sorting different sizes or colors of flowers into vases or graphing a set of bottle caps, your child is building the skills to think and learn about mathematical concepts.
Here are some ways we encourage mathematical thinking...
Popsicle patterns, lines, and designs in preschool
Stop on by and check out our exploration of popsicle patterns, lines, and designs in our preschool classroom!
Colorful fun with musical notes
As part of our unit on xylophones, we invited the children to explore some simple and colorful fun with musical notes.
The math box
Today’s simple math process was a fun way to put our math tokens to good use in our preschool classroom!
Heart math : Five simple math ideas for preschoolers
Here are five simple heart math ideas our prek students explored this week.
Drawing lines and ladders for math
The subject of ladders came up in my classroom a few weeks (or longer) ago and my class has been asking for me to bring a ladder in that they could climb ever since. So today, I brought in a ladder and we explored the ladder along with drawing our own lines and letters for math.
I-Spy math bag game
Today I’m sharing a fun visual discrimination math bag activity that our children loved!
The simplest holiday invitation to play ever!
If you want to add a little spark of curiosity to your classroom, then pick up a few Christmas boxes and you will have the simplest holiday invitation to play ever.
Simple domino math for preschoolers
The children worked on developing their math skills as they played this simple domino game in prekindergarten.
Making simple crayon patterns in preschool
Our Pre-k students explored the process of making simple patterns using crayons and a strip of paper
Egg carton math
See how to quickly put together an entire set of fun and simple math boxes!
DIY Kleenex box (math) games
Exploring math with these fun do-it-yourself fun math boxes and lots of stuff saved from around the school or house!
Five fun ways to teach with tape
Introducing five fun ways teachers can use tape in the preschool classroom to promote learning and play!
Patterning a garden
Our preschoolers explored and created colorful patterns in our paper flower gardens.
“O” how we love to estimate
Estimating, counting, and drawing with the help of a cup full of cheerios in preschool!
Lining up colored craft sticks
Lining up colored craft sticks was one of our favorite activities during our study of lines in preschool.
Measuring and creating with colored spaghetti
We continued our fun day of exploration by measuring colored spaghetti noodles.
Making our own measuring tapes
To extend our exploration of length and measurement, we made our own measuring tapes in preschool.
Exploring measurement in preschool
We brought out the rulers and measuring tapes this week. Read on to see all of the ways we explored measurement in preschool…