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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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Dice Stamp Addition

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Sweet Pea is 5 years old.  

 

 From:  This came from Housing a Forest, but it did not go as planned.  lol.

Material:

Dice Paint Salt Paper Felt Paper Plate

 

Procedure:

Pour some craft paint on a plate and sprinkle on a little salt.  Let your tot stir the paint and salt together with a spoon. [...]

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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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Introduction to a Ruler

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Sweet Pea is 46 months old.

From: This activity was in John Bowman’s new book Montessori at Home (I am giving away a copy here.)

Material:

Ruler. Table knife. 1 can of Play-Doh (You can also make your own, but a Play-Doh is very cheap so I don’t think it is worth the [...]

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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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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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Giant Connect-the-Dots

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Sweet Pea is 39 months old.

From: I found this fast and fun idea at What Do We Do All Day?

Material:

Large sheet of paper.  (We used a big roll of butcher paper from Sam’s Club.) Washable markers.

Procedure:

Make sure you are on a hard washable surface.  Vinyl is [...]

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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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