Bottle caps make a great, inexpensive preschool manipulative. If you’re anything like us, it doesn’t take long to accumulate a nice, varied collection of bottle caps. I just toss them into a little basket in the dishwasher as we empty various containers. Then, they’re clean and ready to become sorters and counters and whatever else we can think of. The… View Post
Self-Correcting Math Activities for Preschoolers
I’ve been trying to find some interesting, self-correcting activities that Nim can do with little supervision for times when I’m working one-on-one with the older kids. The other day, I made her some “checking cards” for the number matching game I made her a couple of weeks ago. The checking cards are simple. I just put the stickers, the number… View Post
Weekly Wrap-Up: The Plague Edition
What a crazy week! Last weekend, as I sat down to plan, I realized that we only had two more weeks until we were to begin our winter break, which will go from the week of Thanksgiving to the first week of the new year. That meant that we had to get busy and finish things up. The week got… View Post
Weekly Wrap-Up: Puppet Shows and Teenagers
TGIF!! When I woke up this morning, it took me a few seconds to remember what day it was. I was almost giddy when I realized it was Friday! I’m ready for a few days to recoup and plan. Remember Monday when I said that everyone was well, so it should be a fairly normal week? Well, that was before… View Post
Step by Step: Counting and Number Recognition Activity
Sunday night I threw together a quick number recognition activity for Nim. I worked with her on it Monday and she loved it! It was simple, inexpensive and turned out to be great practice for counting as well as number recognition. Step 1: I stuck smiley face stickers representing the numbers 1-10 on blank 3 X 5 index cards. I… View Post