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Comment on Do you have a Pre-Reading activity you would like to share? by Kahle

Kahle — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:52:47 +0000

One of my daughters favorite books now is the book about her, it is awesome to hear her read it. Kaihtlyn likes icecream, Kaihtlyn likes the color pink. We put pictures or things on cardstock punched holes in it and tied it with yarn. The book is all about her and what she likes. This would be fun to do every year or two to see how much they change.

Comment on Do you have a Pre-Math activity you would like to share? by Kahle

Kahle — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:47:53 +0000

You can give you child a die and let them roll it and count the dots. Give them a sheet with numbers written on it or from Mary’s patterns take the number sheet and have them trace the number of dots they rolled on the dice.

Comment on Do you have a Pre-Writing activity you would like to share? by Kahle

Kahle — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:42:27 +0000

An actvity that Mary had mentioned in our course was the alpha lacing and it has been great, I take the letter cut it out of cardstock or use foam board and punch holes in it then take a piece of yarn and have child lace the letters, my three year old loves this activity. You could also lace shapes.

Comment on Do you have a Pre-Writing activity you would like to share? by Kahle

Kahle — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:39:49 +0000

For letter recognition I made some flashcards out of cardstock and i drew and colored the same letter twice and then I used those for a matching game, she flips them over so that she can not see them and we play it like a game of memory.

Comment on Do you have a Pre-Writing activity you would like to share? by Kahle

Kahle — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:38:05 +0000

One game we have played is alphabet bingo to help with letter recognition. I made my own bingo cards and call cards out of cardstock. I place the call cards in a brown paper bag and pull one out show it to my 3 yr old and say the name of the letter.

Comment on Do you have a Pre-Math activity you would like to share? by Kahle

Kahle — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:35:44 +0000

One last activity I will mention that we did recently is with a half piece of cardstock i divided it in half again and so on one forth of it i wrote a number and then on the other half I had my 3 yr old place that many stickers, this helps with number recognition and eventually i will cut them in half and she can use them as a matching game once she is more familiar with the written number.

Comment on Do you have a Pre-Math activity you would like to share? by Kahle

Kahle — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:31:33 +0000

To practice one to one ratio and color sorting we bought some pompoms and a silicone muffin tin and placed a single colored sticker in each muffin so that Kaihtlyn could place the pompoms into the muffin tin by their color. To work on fine motor skills i bought some bamboo tongs and she used those to pick up the pompoms. The smaller the pom pom was the harder it was for her to pick it up. This was a great activity for her to do one her own and she enjoyed it.

Comment on Do you have a Pre-Math activity you would like to share? by Kahle

Kahle — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:27:58 +0000

Along with the post above about building patterns with blocks you could also draw these out onto paper and color the different squares and have the child place a block where they belong on the paper, simple activity that would not take much time.

Comment on Do you have a Pre-Math activity you would like to share? by Kahle

Kahle — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:26:37 +0000

recently we bought some small wooden colored blocks and I would make patterns with them or build a small structure and have my 3 year old replicate it, she was required to use the same color of blocks in the same place that i used them.

Comment on Do you have a Pre-Math activity you would like to share? by Kahle

Kahle — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:24:56 +0000

One activity we did to practice math skills was number bingo this helped Kaihtlyn start to recognize numbers. I would draw the number from the bag, show it to her and say the number. I made my own bingo cards and calling cards out of cardstock. This is a quick and easy but fun game for little ones learning their numbers.