Do At Home Math - Grades K-2
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Day 1 Shoe Count - Count all the shoes in the house. Talk about "pairs" and count by twos. |
Day 2 Count the number of letters in the names of each family member and make a graph that shows the outcome. |
Day 3 Match number of letters in the names of each family member and make a graph. |
Day 4 Write numbers as far as you can. Check for reversals. Try again to go farther. Pick a number. Practice writing it. Circle your best number. |
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Day 5 Put toothpicks in groups to match numbers on cards. Make a picture with the toothpicks. Do dot-to-dot puzzles with numbered dots. Find paint-by-number or color-by-number books to do. |
Day 6 Discuss the idea of zero by asking questions. (e.g., How many live elephants live in our house? How many sharks live in our house?) |
Day 7 Talk about the greatest number (biggest number) and the least number (smallest number) by putting a pile of counters out and asking which pile has the greatest number of counters and which pile has the least? Start with smaller numbers and move to larger numbers. Ask your child to name the number one more than the given number. |
Day 8 Look at coins and ask which coin represents the greatest amount and which one the least amount. Make sure the child knows the value of the coins first. How many pennies equal a nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar, dollar? |
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Day 9 Play "Red Light, Green Light." Take three steps forward, then 5 steps back, take 1 step left, and take 2 steps right. |
Day 10
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Day 11 Given a number, have your child count on from that number or count back from the number. |
Day 12 Read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. Count how many things the caterpillar ate all together. |
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Day 13 Count the doors and windows in your house. Make the drawing or drawings showing the rooms with doors and windows. Graph the numbers. |
Day 14
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Day 15
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Day 17 Look for numbers in the house, on license plates, the store, newspapers, etc. |
Day 18 Write 10 numbers. Draw tally marks for each number. |
Day 19 Write your phone number. Memorize it. Write your address. Memorize it. |
Day 20 Write the ages of the people in your family. Put them in order oldest to youngest. |
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Day 21 Make a picture of a school of fish and count and label them by number. Tell how many make one more and one less. |
Day 22 Play Dominoes. Play "Concentration" with number cards. |
Day 23 Listen to a song and clap the beat. |
Day 24
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Day 25 Jump rope and count how many times you jump. Bounce a ball and count how many times it bounces. |
Day 26 Read "The Wolf's Chicken Stew" by Keiko Kasza. Talk about and practice counting to 100. Find 100 things in your house. Pop 100 kernels of popcorn. Make a list of things you have in quantities of 100 in your home. Build something with 100 pieces (e.g., puzzles, Legos, blocks, etc.) |
Day 27 Read "How Much Is A Million" by David M. Schwartz. Talk about how much a million might be. Name things that could be measured in millions (e.g., stars, fish in the sea, people on the planet, grains of sand). |
Day 28 Estimate how far 100 steps would take you in a large open place. Write your guess. Check your guess by walking 100 steps.
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