Kindergarten

Calendar Activities:

• Talk about what day of the week it is.  What was yesterday?  What will tomorrow be?  

• Is the day of the month even or odd?  Learn that you only look at the ones place.  Have that number of students stand up and find a partner.  Are they evenly paired, or is there an odd person out?

Day of School Activities:

• Add a stick for each day of school, then bundle groups of ten as they come up.  Have a place value chart where the ones, tens, and eventually hundreds, can be displayed, writing the number above each place value.

• Add a penny for each day, then trade for a nickel, dime, quarter, and eventually a dollar as the days add up.  You can complete the rhymes to help them begin to identify a penny, nickel, dime and quarter.  Again, writing the amount above it each day.

Counting Activities:

• Using a hundred chart, count by the following:

  • Ones up to 20

  • Twos up to 50

  • Fives up to 50

  • Tens up to 91-100, depending on the day of the month.  (If it is the 4th, you will start at 4 and count by tens: 4, 14, 24...94.)

Mystery Number:

• This would be very basic for Kindergarten, but starting midyear, and progressing through to the end. It would include things like 1 more then 4, or one less than 7.  There are examples included to the right.