Preschool and kindergarten activities take place many times throughout the day. Circle time or teaching time as some preschool teachers call it, outdoor time, trips, extra activities like music and library etc. The preschool activities that I am going to address here are the ones that take place in the centers of a center based…
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Basic Math Number Game for Kindergarten
This math number game got me really excited. I had created this dice game for my kindergarten and even nursery students many years ago. I had it in a handwritten form and I really wanted to share it with you online. However,, I knew that if I took picture of it it wouldn’t be so…
4 Pattern Activities for Your Kindergarten Math Curriculum
In the last post in this Math curriculum series I started out by explaining math for young children with 2 simple pattern activities to begin with. For this post I am going to elaborate even more and am include 4 pattern activities that you can do with kindergarten age children. The truth is nursery school…
Patterns in Kindergarten: 2 Basic beginning activities
The truth is that teaching patterns as a mathematical concept in early childhood classrooms is not always thought of as a math concept. Art teachers use it for pattern making and printmaking all of the time but in reality pattern is the underlying theme of math. Learning the skill of pattern recognition helps the children…
Making Math in Early Childhood Fun?
Math in Early Childhood? Math in the preschool and kindergarten classroom? You bet. And fun also. Math as every older child knows can be boring. Especially since most kids end up watching a teacher solve problems on the board while they fidget in their seats. Math for kids has become an activity that is done…