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Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3
Right Number Elephants by Jeff Shepard
Number Games by Ray Gibson (Usborne)
Discuss these topics with your children when you are studying the number one.
The sun and the moon.
What the children looked and acted like when they were one. You many want to have them bring in any pictures or clothing they have of that time.
Single animals that are hatched from eggs.
You can also add measuring cup & spoons to your water or sand box. Children can count how many scoops it takes to fill a cup.”
At group time, provide the directions containing a number.
For example, 1 jump, 2 hops, 3 leaps, 4 tiptoe steps, etc.
Ali promotes number recognition and encourages preschool children to place numbers in order during this early math activity.
Materials: A set of number cards relevant to your children, 0-10 or 1-5 depending on abilities. Try writing the number and corresponding dots along with the number word on each card.
Description: In advance, teachers discuss the number cards with the children. Next, children sit down and close their eyes, then the teacher hides number cards around the room. Children now have to find the numbers. When they find the …
Preschool children recognize numbers, count and sort during this activity by Chris.
Materials: Cupcake paper liners, felt tip marker, poker chips or anything they can count and sort.
Description: Teachers with marker, on the muffin liners write numbers 1-10 and then have the kids count and sort that many items into each liner.
“BOOKS – “”Mom, Can I Have a Stegosaurus, Please?”” :””The Berenstain Bears and the Missing Dinosaur Bone””””Dinosaurs”” A Pop-Up Book Published by Grandreams, Dinofour – Metzger, Dinosaur Babies by Lucille Recht Penner , The Day Of The Dinosaur by Jan and Stan Berenstain , Dinosaur Days Joyce Milton , Dinosaur ROAR by paul & Henrietta Strickland
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When we learned about dinosaurs we had a fun activity for the kids. Fill a water table and give the kids “islands” to float. We cut foam meat trays into different shapes for the islands. We then gave the kids plastic dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes. They then had to place the dinosaurs on the islands until they sank the island. Our kids had so much fun with this they still ask us to play and we did that theme 2 months ago!
It is a paper cup with a triangle cut out of the closed end of the cup with construction paper teeth glued on. The cups can be painted or covered with paper and a string can be attached so they can be worn. The kids love to do Dino parades with their snouts and noises of their dinosaur after.
To really develop the idea of the meaning of extinct, we hang a sign up saying that cows have been placed on the endangered species list.. then several days later, another sign saying that cows have been declared extinct – what will you miss having?
