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Do-a-Dot Numbers

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Sweet Pea is 5 years old.  

 

From:  Here are the Do-A-Dot number pages!    A long time ago, I created a set of uppercase Do-A-Dot letters and since then, many people have asked me to also create number ones.   These Do-A-Dot sheets are tedious to make so it took me a while to get [...]

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Sorting Coins (& U.S. Coin 3-Part Cards)

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Sweet Pea is 5 years old.

 

From: Sweet Pea is very interested in putting money into her piggy bank so I thought she would like to learn more about coins.  I found this coin sorting activity at the Activity Mom.

Material:

A variety of different coins. Coin cards.  (I created my coin cards in the [...]

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Domino Addition

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Sweet Pea is 4 years old.

From: This domino math idea was from Erica’s fantastic Confessions of a Homeschooler blog.

Prerequisites:  Your child must know how to count to at least 18 and be able to write the numbers from 0 to 18.

Material:

Dominos. My domino addition worksheet. ( Right click on link and select “Save [...]

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Play-Doh and Craft Stick Number Line

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Sweet Pea is 4 years old.

From:    I have had  trouble finding anything about learning the teen numbers.  Many activities seem to be about only the numbers 1-10, so I was excited when I saw this wonderful math idea at Chalk Talk because I knew I’d be able to extend it all the [...]

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Foam Shape Puzzles

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Sweet Pea is 45 months old.

From: The Activity Mom blogged about these cute foam shape puzzles and Walking by the Way did a slightly easier version of them.

Material:

Self-adhesive foam shapes (or non-adhesive shapes and glue). 2 or 3 sheets of card stock or heavy paper. Scissors. Sharpie. Basket or bowl [...]

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Counting and Banding Spindles

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Sweet Pea is 45 months old.

From: I saw a box of cocktail stirrers at Target and thought they would work for the Montessori spindle box activity.

Material:

45 sturdy cocktail stirrers (We found ours at Target near the paper cups.  I had to buy 2 boxes to get 45 stirrers.), Popsicle sticks [...]

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Foam Shape Patterns

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Sweet Pea is 45 months old.

From: I was inspired by pictures of Foam Shape Puzzles and a Mystery Pattern Blocks game in Erica’s Logical Thinking post at ABC and 123.  I thought that the cheap foam shapes would be perfect for a patterning activity.

Material:

Self-adhesive foam shapes.  (or non-adhesive shapes and [...]

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Christmas Tree Counting

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Sweet Pea is 44 months old.

From: I saw this on Carisa’s 1+1+1=1 blog.  She originally got the printables from Musings of Me (which also has some other great Christmas worksheets).  I loved the concept, but I don’t have a color printer and wanted the stars to be easier to cut out, so [...]

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Intro to Geometry: Curved or Straight

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Sweet Pea is 43 months old.

From: I found this really quick activity at Sunbeams and Sanity, who found it on Montessori for Everyone.

Material:

Curved or Straight Worksheet # 1 and Curved or Straight Worksheet # 2 (These are both .pdf files and require Foxit or Adobe Acrobat to view them.)    You can [...]

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Penny Drop Game

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Sweet Pea is 39 months old.

From: I was inspired by this penny drop game at Tired, Need Sleep.

Material:

10 Muffin tin liners, coffee filters or paper circles. 2 Crayons. 10 Pennies.

Procedure:

Let your tot color half of the circles one color while you color the remaining ones a different [...]

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