Math

Recognize patterns and relationships

• See and touch objects of different size, shape, color, and texture (blocks, cups, leaves, rocks)
• Match shapes or sizes such as with the shape sorter, stacking rings, shape puzzles, blocks
• Explore puzzles of different sizes, shapes
• Sing songs about colors or with repeating patterns or rhythms (e.g., The Rainbow Song)

Learn the names of numbers 1 to 10 while developing a sense of their meaning

• Read books such as “Five Little Monkeys…” or "Ten Little Ladybugs"
• Sing songs such as “Over in the Meadow” “This Old Man” or “Six Little Ducks”
• Count how many crackers and cups for snack
• Explore number games and puzzles

Understand volume, weight, and distance using standard and non-standard ways of measuring

• Pour sand, water, and other materials into cups of various sizes and dump it out
• Build and experiment with blocks
• Measure ingredients for play dough, goop, flubber, bio-putty or cooking projects
• Measure objects or distances with string, tape, rulers, measuring tape, footsteps, blocks, etc.

Understand addition and subtraction

• Sing songs such as “Six Little Ducks” or read books such as “Ten Little Ladybugs” which add or subtract one-by-one

Understand fractions, divisions, parts and sections

• Make and serve pretend-play pizza
• Measure a half-cup of juice for drinking
• Work on puzzles of different sizes, shapes

Understand and name opposites

• Sing songs and explore books about opposites
• Play opposites guessing games

Develop a sense of time and sequence while learning to use ordinal numbers (first, second, third) in everyday contexts

• Discuss daily schedule (first, do this, then that)
• Sing about days of the week, months, seasons
• Play leader/follower games
• Repeat clapping patterns and melodies

Recognize patterns and relationships

• Explore the size, shape, color, and texture of materials (blocks, cups, leaves, rocks)
• Collect, sort, categorize, and compare objects
• Make group charts comparing objects
• Build and experiment with pattern blocks
• Work on table-top and floor puzzles

Learn the names of numbers 1 to 10 while developing a sense of their meaning

• Experiment with unifix cubes, cuisinaire rods, place value sets and other math manipulatives
• Read books such as “Five Little Monkeys…”
• Count how many plates and cups for snack
• Explore number games and puzzles

Understand volume, weight, and distance using standard and non-standard ways of measuring

• Pour sand, water, and other materials into cups of various sizes and dump it out
• Build and experiment with blocks
• Measure ingredients for play dough, goop, flubber, bio-putty or cooking projects
• Measure objects or distances with string, tape, rulers, measuring tape, footsteps, blocks, etc.

Understand addition and subtraction

• Experiment with math manipulatives
• Read books such as “Adding it Up”

Understand fractions, divisions, parts and sections

• Work with fraction puzzles
• Make and serve pretend-play pizza
• Measure a half-cup or quarter-cup for making play dough and cooking
• Work on table-top and floor puzzles

Understand and name opposites

• Sing songs and explore books about opposites
• Play opposites guessing games

Develop a sense of time and sequence while learning to use ordinal numbers (first, second, third) in everyday contexts

• Discuss the daily schedule and schedule
• Sing about days of the week, months, seasons
• Use teaching clocks, sequence cards
• Play leader/follower games
• Repeat clapping patterns and melodies