Learning Activities For Children » Math and Matching

Apple Basket Graph

Melissa — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 20:05:18 +0000

Fill up a basket of red, green and yellow apples.

Have your child make a tally graph showing how many of each apple colour there are. Have your child count the tally’s and write the whole number.

This is a great way for children to practice printing, one to one correspondence, addition and learn how to chart.

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5 Skills Children Build From Putting Together Jigsaw Puzzles

Melissa — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:44:29 +0000

My 4 year old and 3 year old girls love puzzles especially 100 + pieces princess puzzles. They are such good friends working on puzzles together and in addition to keeping them occupied it is great to know that they are building important educational skills.

Hand-Eye Coordination
Memory
Fine motor skills
Learn to look at details/ problem solve
Matching

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Turkey Feathers Counting Game

Melissa — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:53:24 +0000

We played this game yesterday with my two year old and three year old and two of their friends. The kids really enjoyed this game, even though most of them can count to four the game was helpful with putting the number of feathers that the numeral on the turkey represented. If you want to go up to higher numbers just make your turkeys a bigger size.

Tape the turkeys to your wall and have the children add the feathers! I found it easier to tape the feathers around the wall and having the children place them on the turkeys rather than having then having to put tape on the feathers after the children have picked which feathers they wanted to add.

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School Zone’s Same Or Different Workbook – A Great Book To Re-Use

Melissa — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:24:03 +0000

While at Walgreens yesterday I bought the School Zone Same or Different workbook for 75 cents!

The book tells children to circle the picture that is the same or different but instead I ask my 3 year old to tell me which picture is the same or which one is different.

There is no writing or drawing required for any of the activities so it is a great book to reuse. The illustrations are fun and colourful and there are varying degrees of difficulties from pictures that are obviously different, to ones that are slightly different. There are also activities that involve words and groups of letters that are different from others in the group so this book is a wonderful reading readiness tool.

My 3 year old loves this book, especially the words section (she LOVES letters!) and the great thing about re-using the book is that if she doesn’t get it right the first time we can use it over and over until she understands all the concepts.

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