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Community Helpers
Discuss community helpers and vehicles they use to do their job. Focus on people who take care of parks and community gardens. Have children build a neighborhood park or community garden with roads for vehicles used to maintain the area.
Compare Story Murals
Create a mural about The Three Little Javelinas. Display the mural near the one you made last week to compare the settings.
Comparing Weight
Demonstrate how to use the balance or homemade scale. Let children compare objects and guess which one is heavier.
Connecting Cube Train Races
Have children build connecting-cube trains to send down ramps, and use nonstandard measuring tools to mark how far the trains travel.
Construction Site
Have children work in small groups to pretend that they are builders at a construction site. Remind them the importance of safety as they work together to build a structure.
Construction Zone
Let children role-play construction workers remodeling the Pretend and Play Center.
Cooking with Math
When your toddler helps you cook, he’s also learning math!
Count the Veggies
Have children write a shopping list. Have them count the number of objects they “buy” at the grocery store in the Block Center.
Count Your Fingers and Toes!
Use your baby’s fascination with fingers and toes to have fun counting.
Countdown to Zero
Display the number chart that includes the number zero. Using your fingers and objects, explain what zero represents in relation to other numbers like one and two.
Counting Sounds
Have children use different materials to make sounds and then count the number of different sounds.
Dance Studio
Have children to pretend they are taking dancing lessons. Encourage them to experiment with different kinds of dance movement.
Dancing Fingers
Encourage children to move their hands to the music as they finger paint. Talk about the music and the ways children are moving their fingers to it.
Decorate and Match Uppercase and Lowercase Letters
Have children decorate and match pairs of uppercase and lowercase letters.
Decorate (“C”)
Cut out a large lowercase letter “c” for children to decorate together.
Decorate (“Yy”)
Distribute a large yellow uppercase and lowercase letter "Yy” to each child to decorate.
Different Material—Different Drying Time
Children choose items of different materials and determine which absorbs more water and which dries faster.
Different Ways to Play
Help children master new skills, remember new ideas, and investigate the world. Find opportunities to include new concepts, ideas, and words in their play in different ways.
Dig for Letters
Have children dig in the beans for hidden uppercase and lowercase alphabet letters.
Disappearing Objects Show
Invite children to put on their own magic show. Help them make connections to the book Abiyoyo.