Math Day

Monday is Math Day. Anna focused on counting by 5's, 10's and 25's using coins and learned how to count change quickly in her head. We played this great coin game where you roll the di and take out the corresponding number of pennies. Once you get 5, you can exchange for a nickel. Once you get 2 nickels you exchange for a dime. The first one to $1.00 is the winner. She loved this!


While we were playing this game, Ella sorted change.

Next we played with the colored bears and animals. I had a di with colors on it and made different colored circles on a sheet of paper. They roll the di and pick an animal that color to place on a circle that is the same color. First one to cover their entire page wins. They both loved this game.

Trying to find a fun, hands on way to memorize the multiplication table. This week we focused on 1 and 2 x's tables. Anna had a paper plate with a mult. problem written on it. She had to find the right answer written on a clothes pin and pin into the corresponding problem.

Ella simply matched up number to number.

Ella also made patterned beads, counted bears, did a few dot-to-dot pictures, and a couple of mazes.

Anna also did 20 mazes (she loved this).

They both enjoyed math day. The plan is to make activities like this every Mon. and do them together. Then I will leave them on a shelf for them to do on their own throughout the week. Hoping to pull that together this week.