Kindergarten
- Pull out your playdoh! Have your parent give you a number between 1-20, make that number with playdoh. (If no play doh you can get creative! Use different objects around the house to make the number, ex coins, buttons, legos, rocks, sticks)
- Draw and cut out different shapes (like circles, hexagons, triangles, squares, rectangles, trapezoids), then build something with them! Can you partition the shapes into 2 or 4 equal shares? (You can draw these shapes with chalk, you can even make a design using 2, 3, or 4 shapes and have someone try to match your design.
- Have a parent ask you the time throughout the day on the hour, quarter hour, and ½ hour. Can you practice other ways of telling the time? Such as half past 1, for 1:30 (can you draw the times on an analog clock—or even with chalk?)
- Have your parent say a square fact, such as 5x5. Then give the product and tell the near squares and their products, for example the “near squares” to 5x5 would be 4x5 and 6x5. (This game can be played alone too, grab a deck of cards and use the numbers A-10, you can write the number 1-10 down each on a separate piece of paper to make your own deck too, shuffle the cards turn them over one at a time, write the square fact, then the near squares. Ex. If you turn over the card “3” you would write: 3x3=9, 2x3=6, 3x4=12)
- Practice drawing different angles with chalk (right angles=90 degrees, acute angles= less than 90 degrees, obtuse angles=great than 90 degrees).
- Directions: Use the operation symbols (+, -, x, and ÷) to fill in the blanks and make the equation true. Operation symbols may be used more than once. 2___ (3___7___9)=(1___5)___(8___4)
Can you come up with your own for someone else to solve?