Math Activities

Counting to 100: 

Count to 100 while:

swinging, walking, hopping, 10 sets of different exercises

watch Jack Hartmann videos (on you tube) counting to 100

Making piles of 10 will also help in counting by 10's

Q-tips                                  Crayons

Puzzle pieces                      Legos

Pennies                                Rocks  

Cotton Balls                         Popcorn

Small bathroom cups           Cheerios

Identifying Numbers

• Using a hopscotch board have student throw water balloon on the square when you say the number

• Put number cards on the floor, call out a number.  The student will jump on a number or throw a bean bag on the number.

• Go on a number walk in a grocery store, in your house or outside.  Ask your child, what number is it?

• Say a number to your child, have them write it with chalk outside.

• Put out numbers on a table or floor.  Give your child a fly swatter.  Say a number and have your child swat it with the fly swatter.

• Jump like a frog onto the hopscotch board when you hold up the number on the paper.  Ask what number did you jump on?  

• Circle numbers in a magazine of newspaper.

• Make a hopscotch board or draw circles,squares, triangles ​ (numbers 1-20 in any order) with chalk on the driveway. Find pine cones,rock,sticks,flowers (dandelions) then have student put object in the box when you say the number.

One to one Correspondence/Counting Ideas

• Use markers or paint on rocks then place each one in a muffin tin (cereal can be used too)

• Deck of cards: have student put objects next to the card with number that corresponds to the card.  Ex.  5 of clubs-5 pennies.

• Parking lot-  using masking tape, tape off floor in strips . At the top of the tape put numbers 1-10.Put number of cars corresponding to the number at top of tape. You could set it up like a highway.

• Count around the house:

• How many steps?

• How many chairs in the kitchen?

• How many light switches?

• How many bathrooms?

• How many spoons? other utensils can be counted as long as parent is there too

• How many doorknobs?

• How many stuffed animals on the bed?

Math Books:

Click Click Splish Splash A Counting  Adventure   by Doreen Cronin & Betsy Lewin

One Hundred Hungry Ants   by   Elinor J. Pinczes

Let's Count to 100!   by   Masayuki Sebe

Teeth,Tails and Tentacles   by   Christopher Wormell

Found Dogs   by   Erica Sirotich (has rhyming in it too)

How Many Snails a counting book   by   Paull Giganti, Jr.

One Is A Snail,Ten is a Crab-A Counting Feet Book  by   April Pulley Sayre, Jeff Sayre

One Duck Stuck:A Mucky Counting Book   by  Phyllis Root (has rhyming too)

Granny Went To Market   by  Stella Blackstone