Preschool: Numbers

With the new school year for Paige, we also started back up doing preschool for Baylor. This week our theme was numbers and it was a fun way to get back into the swing of it.

Tuesday we started the day off with playing with some playdough. It was fun to create different foods and then see her smile as we "ate" each other's creations.

Then for art she created a numbers book. I had her trace each number from 1-10 and then she would also draw her own.

For music time I had a song that taught about how to write the numbers to the tune of "Around the Mulberry Bush." I would say the verse and trace the number in the air and then we would sing it together and she would say each number. She caught on pretty quickly and enjoyed it.

Then for learning time we did a matching activity for numbers 1-20. I had them all laying out and when she found a match she would have to tell me what number it was. She still doesn't recognize 10-20 but it was good to review them and even just point out that there is for example a 1 and a 7 in 17.

For our outdoor time we went on a walk and counted things in our neighborhood. We counted garbage cans, mailboxes, trees, rocks, and flowers and if I saw a number on a house or a mailbox I would ask her what numbers they were.

Then for story time we read these three books and did even more counting. She is getting pretty good for 1-10 and recognizing them all. She still doesn't quite get 10 and just says a 1 and an o and oftentimes mixes up 6 and 9 though she gets lots of reminders that for a 6 the circle is at the bottom and for a 9 the circle is at the top.

On Wednesday we started our day off with a counting graph chart. I had created a graph for doors, bed, sinks and such and each one she would count and then mark that many. At first she was trying to write the numbers but got tired of it so I had color in the boxes. (I tried to get her to color in boxes at the beginning but she was getting a little confused of how it worked so I let her do it however she wanted.) One cute thing that happened was when she was counting the sinks, we have two bathrooms that have sinks and then the kitchen sink but then she remembered her toy sink and had to include that in her chart.

For art she drew the lines on the paper plate and I wrote the numbers in each section and then she put that many stickers in each section to match the number.

For music time we sang "Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree" and "Five Little Ducks". She loves both of those songs and sang right along. Then for learning time I wrote the number on the bottom of an egg carton and she had to put the right amount of beads in the right slot. Then after that she wanted to put some of the beads on a pipe cleaner and make a necklace.

For outdoor time I soaked up some sun rays as I watcher her speed back and forth across our back patio on her bike.

Thursday we started off with a calendar puzzle. I printed off two calendars and then cut up one so that she had to put the numbers on. This puzzle also had some cute foxes so I cut those out for pieces also. When she found a piece we talked about what number it was.

For art she wrote 1-10 on notecards and then colored them.

Then for music time we did the same thing that we did on Tuesday but with numbers 7-10.

Then learning time she really enjoyed. We taped 1-10 on some brown paper bags. Then I hid the note cards that she made for art and she had to find them and match them to the right bag. We took turns where she hid and I found and then she wanted to be the finder again.

We then put the cards in the brown bags and set them up down our hallway. For our active time she went bowling. She had fun doing it and would even set the bags back up. She tried rolling the ball, throwing it, and kicking it.

And last thing for the week was story time and I told her the story of the three little pigs with these cute cutouts.