Math Mitts
Make your own counting gloves to teach number recognition.
Place 2 layers of felt under each of your hands. Trace your hands onto felt leaving about ¼ inch all around for a good fit. Then, carefully cut along the line making sure to catch both layers of felt. You should have two cut out right hands and two cut out left hands. Now, line up fingers and stitch hands together to make gloves.When your gloves are finished, use a permanent marker to write numbers 1 through 10 on the fingertips. If you want to create colorful numbers, sew on pre-cut numbers from a craft store.Make a pair of gloves for your child so he or she can participate in counting rhymes.
Sing as you move your numbered fingers:
1, 2 buckle my shoe
3,4 shut the door
5,6 pick up sticks
7,8 lay them straight
9,10 begin again
repeat 1 through 8
and then9.10
now that is the end.
Recommended reading: One Two Buckle My Shoe by Jane Cabrera published by Holiday House and
1,2, Buckle My Shoe by Anna Grossnickle Hines published by Harcourt, Inc. www.HarcourtBooks.com
The Tens Factory
Place 10 paper bowls on a table. Mark each one from 10 to 100. (10,20,30 etc.)
Count with your child as you place ten items into each bowl. When all the bowls are filled, go back and count 10,20,30,etc up to 100.
Remember to count out loud together 1 to 10 for each bowl. When the bowl is full, make sure to stop and reinforce by saying ,“Now, we have one bowl with ten (cheerios,raisins,pennies,whatever you can think of but just choose ten of the same) inside it.”
Here is a rhyme when all ten bowls are full:
Our ten bowls are full at last
Now lets count to one hundred fast!
10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100!
Recommended reading: Chicka Chicka 123 by Bill Martin Jr.,Michael Sampson, Lois Ehlert
Recommended Links
http://www.getreadytoread.org/
http://www.nifl.gov/earlychildhood/earlychildhood.html
http://www.unitedthroughreading.org/documents/readaloudtechniques.pdf
http://www.knowitall.org/nasa/connect/index.html
http://www.ocls.info/virtual/PDFs/homeschooling_0505.pdf
http://www.ocls.info/Virtual/eguides/homeschool/default.asp
http://www.hcecf.net/
http://www.osc.org/index.phpoption=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=29&Itemid=46
http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Readiness_Indicators/
http://www.floridaschoolchoice.org/information/home_education/
http://www.readinga-z.com/
Recommended book
Before They Read by Cathy Puitt Miller
100 top picks for homeschool curriculum : choosing the right
curriculum and approach for your child' by Cathy Duffy
Make your own counting gloves to teach number recognition.
Place 2 layers of felt under each of your hands. Trace your hands onto felt leaving about ¼ inch all around for a good fit. Then, carefully cut along the line making sure to catch both layers of felt. You should have two cut out right hands and two cut out left hands. Now, line up fingers and stitch hands together to make gloves.When your gloves are finished, use a permanent marker to write numbers 1 through 10 on the fingertips. If you want to create colorful numbers, sew on pre-cut numbers from a craft store.Make a pair of gloves for your child so he or she can participate in counting rhymes.
Sing as you move your numbered fingers:
1, 2 buckle my shoe
3,4 shut the door
5,6 pick up sticks
7,8 lay them straight
9,10 begin again
repeat 1 through 8
and then9.10
now that is the end.
Recommended reading: One Two Buckle My Shoe by Jane Cabrera published by Holiday House and
1,2, Buckle My Shoe by Anna Grossnickle Hines published by Harcourt, Inc. www.HarcourtBooks.com
The Tens Factory
Place 10 paper bowls on a table. Mark each one from 10 to 100. (10,20,30 etc.)
Count with your child as you place ten items into each bowl. When all the bowls are filled, go back and count 10,20,30,etc up to 100.
Remember to count out loud together 1 to 10 for each bowl. When the bowl is full, make sure to stop and reinforce by saying ,“Now, we have one bowl with ten (cheerios,raisins,pennies,whatever you can think of but just choose ten of the same) inside it.”
Here is a rhyme when all ten bowls are full:
Our ten bowls are full at last
Now lets count to one hundred fast!
10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100!
Recommended reading: Chicka Chicka 123 by Bill Martin Jr.,Michael Sampson, Lois Ehlert
http://www.ocls.info/virtual/PDFs/homeschooling_0505.pdf
http://www.hcecf.net/
http://www.osc.org/index.phpoption=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=29&Itemid=46
http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Readiness_Indicators/
http://www.floridaschoolchoice.org/information/home_education/
Before They Read by Cathy Puitt Miller
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