Teaching kids their numbers doesn’t need to be tricky – it can truly be as easy as 1, 2, 3! The trick is to know exactly what you need to teach. When we are teaching young children their numbers it is important to differentiate between teaching a child to count, teaching number recognition, and teaching…
Nancy Number Face
A photo on Friday. Happy Friday! The kids and I had so much fun with this number math art. It is as simple as it looks, we just cut out numbers and turned them into eyes, ears, hair, and noses. It was a great chance for my little ones to look at numbers closely, compare…
Number Learning Games for SUMMERTIME!
Oh summertime! How I love it. All that time with my little ones to play, enjoy, and get outside. Every time we adventure outside it seems learning takes place. Loads of it! Natural learning, through play-based and child-led adventures of course – and truly, most importantly of all. But summer is a great time to…
Swept away with learning!
I am over on the Melissa and Doug website today sharing how we have been swept away with learning. I was thrilled to find some child sized brooms, mops, and dustpans as Christmas gifts for my little ones. My boys are such great helpers that they are forever using my cleaning tools – making it…
Teaching Numbers with Quiet Time Activities
Settling back into a routine after the holidays? We sure are – hence all of the quiet time activities you are seeing… Adding in a quiet time to our afternoons has completely transformed our days. My little ones rest and unwind allowing them to enjoy the rest of our day. I have been working on…
Can you build a tower worth 23?
I find numbers and math in general super fascinating. There, it’s been said. It’s out of the bag. I am a bit of a numbers-nerd. But they are very cool – how they all fit and work together. I love introducing my little ones to some of these neat math concepts. Pretty big concepts really,…
Once Upon a Time …
Once upon a time, in a land near yet far, there lived a Mama. This Mama wanted nothing more than to stay home with her kids. She longed for those long, sunny days full of finger painting, stories, and snuggles. Those moments of connection, watching all those incredible firsts, and hearing those tiny voices all…
Fingertip Caterpillars {A Photo on Friday}
A photo on Friday, because sometimes, all you need is the picture! Making caterpillars with fingerprints is a great way to practice one-to-one correspondence (counting while pointing), patterning, skip counting, a ton! I just drew on caterpillar heads, but you could use these neat printables from Fun Handprint Art Blog. Thank you for reading, have…
Stringing a Painters Tape Christmas Tree
Christmas celebrations are in full swing over here. The Christmas trees are up and decorated, the lights hung, and Santas’ and Snowmen are displayed as far as the eye can see. So it’s only fitting we break out the green painter’s tape. As you may know, we have a love of painter’s tape in this…
7 AWESOME Ways to Learn Numbers with Tape!
When I taught Kindergarten, I would often be asked by parents about ways to help little ones learn numbers at home. I would always remind them that they practice numbers all the time! While counting out silverware for the table, pushing buttons in elevators, and many other ways – like in this post on 50…