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Fun Addition Activities to Try at Home

I found these fun and creative addition activities you can create and do them at home. I used materials that are already at home. I got these ideas from this blog https://www.teachstarter.com/us/blog/10-easy-simple-addition-activities-kids-us/

I found a small inflatable ball from my son's toy box. Using a black marker, I wrote an addition sentence on each of the red and white parts of the ball. If you can't find a ball, you can use a small box and write the addition sentence on each of the faces of the box.

Take turns of tossing the ball (or box) to each other. After you catch the ball (or box), you read the addition sentence and try to solve it.

Other materials you can use can be popsicle sticks, blank cards and small paper plates, In this picture, I found an empty tissue box and a foam toy cube, I wrote two addition sentences on each surface of the tissue box and I taped on the foam cube addition sentences written on white strips of paper.

I used playing cards for this activity. If you don't have playing cards, cut out rectangular pieces of white paper, write the number and draw circles to represent the number. I made my own zero card this way. Make sure to take out the king, queen and jack cards. I cut smaller pieces of white rectangular paper and wrote the possible answers. I wrote on a larger piece of paper the plus and equal sign.

Place a card on either side of the plus sign as shown on the picture above. Parents can model first by reading the addition sentence and figuring out the sum (answer) by counting the pictures on each cards. Please use your fingers to count. Parent says "Five plus two equals..... Parent counts the 5 hearts and count 2 clovers to make 7. Find the paper that has the 7 and place next to the equal sign.

Try to keep the addition answers within 10 but you can try to challenge your child and use cards that add to more than 10.

Counting in groups of 10!

Watch this video with your child. Find some things at home you can use: pretzels, cheerios, legos, crackers, macaroni, coins, etc.

Below are videos and links you might want to watch and practice at home. (Please make sure to scroll all the way down)

We have been practicing to subitize numbers 0 to 10 by watching Jack Hartmann's fun video on youtube. Kids have fun trying to beat their teacher.

Jack Hartmann's has other educational and fun videos related to math and also language arts.

We are also learning 3D shapes and examples of objects that are of those shapes. It's a cute and very memorable song.

Here's another cute song to remember your 2D shapes.

Link to help you practice counting your numbers and more. You will need your child's username and password. Please email me at rsumbad@rcsdk8.net for the username and password.

https://www.khanacademy.org/

Counting Collections Activity to Try At Home

Take a break from your laptop or computer and below are some suggestions you can use at home.

Empty out your change jar or wallet. Have your child group the pennies, quarters, dimes and nickels into separate groups. Have them count how many coins there are in each group. (Math Standards: Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.)
Does your child have small toys such as cars, marbles, dinosaurs and other animals? Try the activity found in this link https://frugalfun4boys.com/preschool-activity-sorting-counting-graphing/. Your child can practice their counting and color sorting. Any small items or objects can be used such as leaves, flowers, colored pebble and legos. If you don't have colored tape, use crayons. You can also use plastic drinking cups and write a number on it. Kids count objects and place them according in each numbered cups. (Math Standards: Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.)

Below are pictures I took using things and counting objects/items I found around my home. I used my son's small toys and my collection of seashells. I found all of my son's triangle magnatiles when I was vacuuming under the couch!

Count each group of objects one at a time. As your child count each one, they also place the objects in a container (can be a cup, small plate, small box).

Students write down the number and place it next to the objects they counted.

Students also need to practice counting using their finger. Take out the objects out of the container, line them up in away that will make it easy to count such as in a row, 5 per row.

3. Count other things in your home or outside where you live: Here are examples:

a. Count the number of stairs or steps you take when you walk upstairs or downstairs

b. If you collect cards (ie: Pokemon cards), count how many you have

c. Count how many dolls, teddy bears, stuffed toys, trucks, cars you have

d. If you go out on a walk with your family, count how many parked cars you pass by or trees

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