Benefits of Family Game Night

• Help improve motor skills and hand-eye coordination. 

• Reinforce academic skills like math, spelling, and general knowledge, leading to better grades. 

• Practice in problem-solving: children who strategize and problem-solve with their parents develop better memory techniques and are more successful at solving various problems independently. 

• Through repetitive play, children become more familiar with numbers, recognizing patterns, understanding sequences, and develop a foundational understanding of basic arithmetic. 

• Suggested games for preschool: Rat-A-Tat Cat, Connect 4, Candy Land, Uno, Chutes and Ladders, Hi Ho Cherry-O, Dominoes, Dice Poppers. 

Key Skills Your Student Is Learning

• Counting using the number sequence.

• Subitizing and recognizing numbers by showing amounts.

• Concepts of more and less and relating numbers to each other.

• Naming basic shapes and recognizing positions (e.g. above, below, beside).

• Sorting and classifying.

• Mathematics has many connections to the other domains of growth and development, such as language, and the ability to recall information from memory. Mathematical ideas and skills developed through everyday experiences in early childhood serve as a foundation for later learning and everyday life. 

You can find videos and lessons about each of these math skills on Khan Academy.

Linked here is the Early Learning and Development Standards for Ohio.