Teaching my kids is something I try to do everyday even if they aren’t aware they are learning. I like to make math something they learn to use in everyday situations. Here is a calendar of ideas to do with your kids each day during the month of June. They only take a few minutes [...]
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Scrabble Addition
June 1, 2010 – 10:26 am
Ashlyn liked her making word activity so much that I thought I would give her another one only add a little math into the mix. This is what you need: Scrabble tiles a list of words calculator (optional) pencil and paper I gave her a list of 5 words. We spent the day at the [...]
Making Words
May 29, 2010 – 2:09 pm
Ashlyn really enjoyed this activity. I put some of our Bananagram letters into a bowl. She had to close her eyes and choose any 6 she wanted. Once she had her 6 letters, she had to see if she could make any words from them. I had her write them down on her white [...]
Yummy Patterning!
May 20, 2010 – 4:55 pm
Monday was a wet, rainy day. I had planned on taking the girls to the zoo’s splash pad but instead we hung out at home and played together. I decided to do a patterning activity with M&M’s. What kid doesn’t love any math activity where eating chocolate is involved. I gave them each a bowl [...]
More Pond Activities
May 17, 2010 – 8:49 am
We finally finished up our habitat books at school on Thursday. Now I just have to put them all together. The kids worked so hard on them and they look great. Our last habitat we talked about was ponds. Here is a page from our book. The kids painted a small cupcake liner green [...]