Patterning with partners and lids
Patterning with partners is a fun and cooperative way to explore important math and language skills.
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...
Hearts you can count on
Hearts are a wonderful shape for sorting, graphing, counting, estimating, and more! Come and see how we put our hearts and minds to work as we explored a little heart math fun!
Designing our own shiny gem ornament graphs
We added a little sparkle to the graphing process! Young children exploring the graphing process with the use of gems and rulers.
Sticky paper turkey dress-up and patterning
Bright and colorful feathers are a fun addition to the preschool classroom. See how we made one turkey happy with this simple and fun sticky paper patterning process.
More buttons, buttons, buttons
Working on our fine motor skills, patterning, and counting as we had more fun with bright and colorful buttons!
Calculating up numbers in preschool
Our preschool class spent time calculating up numbers! See the process they loved and explored!
Sorting through the colors of fall
Taking a walk through our “forest” to gather up the colors of fall!
Making apple patterns in preschool
Making simple patterns with apples on a sentence strip in preschool!
Six unique ways to use scrap wood in preschool
There are so many wonderful ways preschoolers can explore scrap wood. Stop by and see some of the unique ways we are exploring in our classroom!
Graphing leaves in preschool
Exploring the basics of graphing in preschool with the leaves of fall!
Exploring our shapes with blocks on the table top
Exploring colors and shapes with our blocks on the table top in preschool!
Nuts about acorns in preschool | Lois Ehlert
Counting, estimating, and exploring acorns along with the wonderful children’s book “Nuts to You” by Lois Ehlert!
Weighing and exploring acorns in preschool
Exploring scales and acorns at the discovery table led to problem solving, writing, counting, graphing, weighing, and sorting in preschool!
A sticky square collage
Exploring the beautiful colors and shape of a square on our sticky window!
The paper framework of play
Inviting new learning through simple materials and time to explore…
Building block literacy and story telling
Building our own stories through block play in circletime…
Counting and planting seeds
Reading, counting, planting, and playing with seeds in our gardening center!
Simple math and graphing in preschool
The children in my early childhood classroom love estimating, counting, and graphing our math tokens!
The 4 R’s: reading, writing, arithmetic, and rainbows
Exploring the “4 R’s” in our preschool classroom as we had fun with rainbow reading, rainbow writing, and rainbow arithmetic!