Hide a treasure for your child. Draw a map for child to follow directions to treasure. Use words like “go right at the steps, left at door.”
Have your child write down 4 (or more) random numbers. Tell them to use all 4 numbers to make the biggest number possible. Make sure they read and write the answer to you.
Let’s keep working on our number and math skills this week. Ask your child to count by 5s and 10s as they walk up the stairs – 5, 10, 15, 20, 25… Then count backwards as they walk down the stairs – 100, 90, 80, 70, 60…
Practice adding. Take turns rolling dice and adding them together to find the sum (remind your child that “sum” means total). The first person to 50 is the winner.
Make a whole peanut butter and jelley sandwich with your child. Cut it in half, and write the fraction ½. Show how ½ plus ½ equals a whole. Now cut it into fourths. What is the percentage of ¼? It’s 25%. If you eat one square, you’ve eaten 25% of your sandwich! Take turns estimating how much of your sandwich you’ve chomped on 🙂
This week explore math concepts. Geometry and shapes are math concepts. Do a shape hunt: Find 5 shapes in the house that have parallel lines (lines that run side by side and never cross). For example the door frames, book shelves, patterns in your tile or carpeting, etc.
Designate the left side of a room as “Even” and the right side of the room as “Odd.” Yell out a number. If it’s even, your child has to jump to the left side. If it’s odd, they have to go right. More kids = more fun. Put an X on each side of the room. First one to tap the X wins a point. Play to ten. Whoever wins gets to call out numbers next! 🙂