Kindergarten
- Draw a picture of a house using only squares and triangles, draw a robot using only rectangles, come up with your own drawing using only 2 or 3 different shapes
- Grab some items from around your house, line them up for shortest to tallest.
- Assign some boxes or buckets different point values (can do numbers up to 20!). Throw a ball into them 2 times, then add the value! (No boxes/buckets? Draw circles on a piece of paper and spread them out or with chalk on your driveway).
- Draw a clock and have the hour hand point to different numbers on the clock. Tell what hour the clock is in, repeat with new time! (can do with chalk on the driveway—if you don’t want to keep redrawing you can use toothpicks or pencils as the hour hand!)
- Turn over 3 playing cards, represent the number the following ways: expanded form, word form, as coins, with tallies, as addition and subtraction problems (ex. 56: 50 + 6, fifty-six, Quarter, Quarter, Nickel, Penny, 10+20+10+10+6, 60-4)….Challenge turn over
- Assign some boxes or buckets different point values (can do numbers up to 500!). Throw a ball into them 2 times, then add the value! (No boxes/buckets? Draw circles on a piece of paper and spread them out or draw circles with chalk on your driveway). Challenge yourself at the end by adding up all the totals.
- Assign some boxes or buckets different point values (can do numbers up to 10!). Throw a ball into them 2 times, then multiply the value! (No boxes/buckets? Draw circles on a piece of paper and spread them out or draw circles with chalk on your driveway).
- Make a number box for different fractions, try to come up with as many ways to represent the fraction. (Ex. On a number line, different equivalent fractions, with a circle drawing different parts)
- Throw a ball and measure how many inches you threw it, then convert the measurement to yards and feet. Repeat and measure in meters, can you convert to centimeters and millimeters?
- Find something you think has an area of 36 inches. Measure and see if you are right! Repeat with different numbers, (42, 56, 81)
- Assign some boxes or buckets different point values (make each point value a different two digit number). Throw a ball into them 2 times, then multiply the value! (No boxes/buckets? Draw circles on a piece of paper and spread them out or draw circles with chalk on your driveway).
- Find the dimensions of the rooms in your home in feet. Calculate the perimeter and area of each room. Then convert each measurement to yards. (Can you challenge yourself by converting to inches?)