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If you are looking for Safe, Fun, and Dependable Care for your child before and/or after school then the Latchkey Program is the place for your child care needs! We provide before and after school Latchkey services for children in grades K-5.

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Being Successful Across the Kindergarten Day

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Being Successful Across the Kindergarten Day

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Being Successful Across the Kindergarten Day

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Riverside Kindergarten Teachers Wish List

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Reading Tips for Parents of Kindergartners

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Play with letters, words, and sounds! Having fun with language helps your child learn to crack the code of reading. The tips below offersome fun ways you can help your child become a happy andconfident reader. Try a new tip each week. See what works best foryour child.

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10 Ways to Celebrate the First Day of Kindergarten

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10 Ways to Celebrate the First Day of Kindergarten

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Your child's first day of kindergarten is a truly momentous occasion that is bound to invite a whole flood of emotions. Special activities before and after the first day will give your child memorable moments and a positive outlook on the upcoming year. These activities will help her understand kindergarten as a rewarding new phase of life, rather than a scary separation. You also can help your child embrace the transition by reading sweet tales that get kids excited for kindergarten together.
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1. Make a "Me Mural." Doing this project together will help strengthen your child's sense of self. On an oversized piece of paper, create a collage of his strengths, interests, favorite things, friends, family, home, or pets.

2. Offer Ownership. As you are shopping for school supplies, let your child pick out the colors and styles she wants and customize them at home with craft materials. (Here are 3 fun ways kids can personalize their school supplies.)

3. Create a Launch Pad. Find a corner in your house for your child's shoes, backpack, and lunch bag. Laminate a favorite drawing, and place it on the floor for a fun and reassuring jumping-off point.

4. Do a Dress Rehearsal. The first day doesn't have to be a big surprise. Pretend you're the new teacher by introducing yourself, going over the weather, reading a story, and making art projects.

5. Build Confidence With Books. Read stories about school or other new adventures. Referring to a favorite character's bravery may help your child pinpoint anxieties and summon his own courage in an unfamiliar situation. These books boost confidence and self-esteem to help kids feel good about themselves.

6. Envision the Future With a Customized Calendar. Whether your school district mails out academic calendars or you buy your own, personalize it by adding holidays, birthdays, and other events. Check out the Klutz personalized calendar and gratitude journal that helps kids track important events with a bookmark, sticky notes and stickers.

7. Play the Name Game. Names will be an important lesson on the first day of school. Write a poem or make an illustration of with your child's name. Names are important social devices, and the more comfortable your child is giving out his name, the better he can use it to meet other children.

8. Make an "About Me" Booklet. Let your child's teacher know who she is and why she is excited about school. Crafting the booklet will let your child envision her new teacher in a friendly light and make her more at ease when they meet.

9. Draw a Home-to-School Map. Create a poster of the route to school, complete with photos and illustrations of landmarks. If there are stores or parks along the way, visit them. This deepens your child's understanding of the connection between home and school.

10. Keep Confidence High With Photo Mementos. Take pictures of your kindergarten kickoff activities. Or stage a fashion shoot with your child's favorite clothes, friends, school supplies, artwork, and toys to help him remember, in the near and far future, who he is, where he comes from, and the support he has at home.

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10 Ways to Celebrate the First Day of Kindergarten

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Your child's first day of kindergarten is a truly momentous occasion that is bound to invite a whole flood of emotions. Special activities before and after the first day will give your child memorable moments and a positive outlook on the upcoming year.

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Ideas for Building Number Sense in Kindergarten

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Ideas for Building Number Sense in Kindergarten

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Math tips and strategies for building number sense to 20 in Kindergarten and first grade: An extensive list of number sense activities and resources are included: books, materials, math manipulatives, and FREE activities!
By Proud to be Primary

The math tips and strategies you need for building number sense to 20 are right here. You will have everything you need to quickly implement and bring a wealth of number sense activities, games, and centers into your classroom or home.

Building Number Sense to 20

The activities, books, resource suggestions (including a FREE one) cover a ton of number sense concepts and are perfect for Kindergarten and first grade. Plus, find valuable number sense materials and manipulative suggestions, as well as freebies you can access today! Warning: It's LONG but filled with so much you won't want to miss anything!

Why is Building Number Sense Important?

Children need opportunities to learn and experience numbers. Learning to count, identify numbers, and understand quantity are a few of the essential concepts. Repeated experiences build understanding and fluency with numbers. These experiences help expand knowledge and learn new ideas. A strong number sense is vital for future understanding of more complex math topics.

The activities below are ones that have been used successfully. Use them as they are described or adapt them to your own needs. Be flexible. Have conversations about numbers and encourage questions. When there is an opportunity to order, count, match, or describe with a child, go for it! They benefit from seeing numbers in natural, fluid ways.

Make time for fun and engaging number activities daily and watch fluency develop.

Number Sense Concepts & Activities

Build Number Sense Through Counting

It is crucial to count with children every day. Repeated oral counting helps them hear what numbers sound like and to learn their order. Using math manipulatives, like counting chips, can help build a connection to verbal counting and counting objects. This one-to-one counting is an important skill that needs to be practiced often.

Activities

Count out loud as a class starting at one and building to higher and higher numbers.

Sit with a partner or in a circle and take turns counting by 1's.

As counting develops, teach number patterns and counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's.

Use a number chart to see what numbers look like visually. Point to each number as it is said.

Encourage kids to practice one-to-one counting with small objects. Have small groups of objects set up in a center for them to count.

Provide number cards (like those seen below) for kids to represent with counting chips.

Build Number Sense by Matching Numbers to Quantities

Provide materials for kids to count and connect with objects and numbers. This encourages children to see that numbers are more than words. Teach children that numbers have many representations, such as dots, fingers, counters, numerals, objects, ten frames, etc.

Activities

Match two different types of objects together, such as five counting bears and a domino that shows five dots.

Use links to create a number chain for a number.

Work up to showing quantity with more than two types of objects (as seen in the photo).

Have many different items available for activities, such as dice, dominoes, number magnets, bears, counting chips, cubes, and number cards.

Match number cards from a card deck or game of Uno with dots on dominoes. Find every number combination on the dominoes.

Complete number puzzles that have a different number representation on each piece. They help kids see that numbers can be modeled in many ways. These number puzzles to 20 are available as a FREE download further on.

Encourage one-to-one counting with clip cards. Kids count groups of objects and clip the numeral that matches to the correct quantity.

Ten frames are great for organizing numbers so that they can be easily counted. Matching numeral cards with ten frame representations is simple, yet effective at connecting quantity with numbers.

Build Number Sense with Number of the Day

When kids see numbers in many ways at once in a repeatedly, their number sense develops. Pick a number of the day starting at one and dissect it during your math block.

Activities

Learn about a specific number for each day that you have been at school. Teach and dissect that number during calendar time. Represent that number on a number line, count to that number, show that number with straws or cubes, etc.

Use a number of the day poster or anchor chart to break numbers down. Create your number of the day poster with the FREE poster templates.

Encourage kids to participate and show their understanding on paper or mini whiteboards. Ask a question, such as "How do we show 5 with tally marks?" and allow them time to try on their own. This makes an excellent fluency building warm-up to math lessons.

Read more tips on starting a number of the day routine in your classroom.

Build Number Sense by Ordering Numbers

Provide opportunities for kids to put numbers in order. While they put numbers or objects with numbers on them into the correct order, they are counting and building number sense.

Activities

Provide opportunities with using a number line and number chart that puts numbers in order for us.

Give sets of numbers to order correctly by finding them on the number line.

Cover different numbers on a number chart with sticky notes and ask kids for the missing numbers.

Build Lego stacks by putting the pieces together in an order written on the blocks.

Work together with a partner to order number cards from 0 to 20. Create a number caterpillar like the one seen below.

Number puzzles are a fun way to order numbers. Put the strips in the right order to reveal a picture.

Puzzles are simple and easy to create. Take an old puzzle and write numbers on the back of each piece.

Grab a piece of paper and write numbers in rows. Cut out pieces randomly and trade with a partner. Put the puzzle back together again for practice.

Complete a number order maze starting at 0. This activity can be reused when put into a pocket protector.

Build Number Sense with Place Value Activities

Teaching kids about place value should begin with teaching them to see ten in many ways. Move on to illustrating numbers with base ten blocks.

Activities

Practice making groups of ten things. Group straws, beans, counters, or any small objects.

Teach counting by 10's to count groups. Extend to teaching groups first and then singles.

Make groups of ten to get to the 100th day.

Show and examine a tens block and ones block. Discuss that a tens block has ten ones put together.

Use base ten blocks to represent numbers. Do plenty of examples where kids must use and count blocks. Use a chart to help count the blocks.

Say "Show (or draw) me 14 with place value blocks!"

Represent the number of tens and ones on place value mats (seen below). Ask questions like "How many ones are there?" or "How many groups of ten?". Make sure they understand what each number within the number stands for (i.e., the 1 in 18 is a ten and not a one).

Represent a number in different ways: expanded form, standard form, word form, numeral, etc. Worksheets like the one below, can help build this connection.

Reading and Writing Numerals

Kids are constantly surrounded by numbers in their environment. They quickly learn to recognize the individual numerals 0 to 9 through different experiences. Continue to encourage this familiarity by having numbers on the wall. Posters, number lines, and calendars are helpful tools.

Activities

Use a Boogie Board (seen below) or whiteboard to practice numbers over and over quickly.

Trace numbers frequently and repeatedly to build coordination and correct form. The mini-book below encourages this, as well as locating numbers.

Encourage the correct formation of numbers by teaching it explicitly. The posters (seen below) are helpful tools to use and post on the wall.

Catchy number poems help students visualize and remember number formation. Use your whole body to make actions or draw in the air.

Reading and Writing Number Words

Teach kids how to read number words as they learn to read. Teach each number word one at a time and how to spell them phonetically (when applicable).

Activities

Have number posters with both the numeral and number word on it.

Include number words on spelling lists so that kids learn to read and spell number words.

Use a number of the day routine to teach and focus on one word each day.

Match numbers word cards with numeral cards (seen below).

Play memory with a partner with number words and numeral cards. Look for pairs (twelve and 12).

Build recognizing and speed with mental math flash cards. Flashcards to kids, and they race to call out what they see (tally, numerals, number words, etc.).

Build Number Sense by Counting On and Back

Teach the strategy of counting on and back from a number to prepare kids for addition and subtraction.

Activities

Give students a number and a group of small objects to count on. Ask, "How many more do I have?" given 7 to start and a group of 9 counters to count on with.

Play games with small objects and decks of cards where counting on is needed.

Play a group counting game called 'Around the World.' Say a number, and each person counts on and says the next number as you go around the circle.

Use small objects to count on or back from a number given (cubes, counters, dice, etc.).

Put numbers in backward order. Take the ordering activities seen above and reverse them.

Build Number Sense through Estimating

Provide lots of opportunities for kids to guess how many things they see in their day to day lives. Ask prompting questions to encourage this thinking. Make sure kids know that they are estimating and that these are just guesses. Stress that estimates do not need to be exact but that they should be thoughtful. With more practice, estimations should become closer to the actual number of objects.

Activities

Fill clear or open containers with different sized objects for kids to guess. Keep them simple and work up in difficulty and size of objects. Smaller objects and bigger containers are usually harder.

Create an Estimation Station," where containers are set up with objects inside. Kids can take a close look and make estimates.

As a whole group activity, grab a pile of objects to show quickly. Cover them and have kids make guesses.

Play 'Show & Hide' with a partner. Use a cup and put some small counting bears inside. Quickly show a partner, and then hide them. They make an estimate, and then you count together to check.

Build Number Sense by Comparing Numbers

As familiarity with numbers grow, so does an ability to compare numbers with each other. Provide opportunities to compare numbers daily. Ask questions about which number is bigger, smaller, or the same.

Activities

Use a chart or number line to compare numbers.

Use small objects to make comparing easier. Say "Show 11 and 15 with cubes". Ask, "Which number is smaller?".

Teach the symbols < > and = and what they each mean. Use the alligator strategy (The alligator likes to eat the bigger number) to remember the signs and what they mean.

Create number towers. Kids use cubes to form towers to represent numbers. Compare two towers to see which is the tallest and, therefore, the bigger number. The alligator eats the bigger tower.

Compare numbers with math tools and indicate the correct symbol on clip cards (seen below). As kids become fluent, they should recognize the correct symbol without support.

The activities seen in this post can be found in the following resources found on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Free Number Sense Puzzles to 20

Prep this fun set of number puzzles for your classroom centers and help kids build their number sense!
Numbers to 5 for Kindergarten
Grab 20 FREE number puzzles with different representations on each piece by clicking the image below.
Numbers to 10 for Kindergarten

Numbers 11-20 for Kindergarten
Number Sense Books
Mindful Math Kindergarten Curriculum Numbers to 10 for First Grade Numbers to 20 for First Grade

I Spy Numbers by Jean Marzollo
1,2,3 Peas by Keith Baker
Chicka Chicka 1,2,3 by Bill Martin Jr.
Splash! by Ann Jonas (counting)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (counting)
How Do Dinosaurs Count to 10? by Jane Yolen
Number Everywhere by Elliot Kaufman
10 Black Dots by Donald Crews
How Many Bugs in a Box? by David Carter
How Many Snails? by Paul Giganti, Jr.
Ten Sly Piranhas by William Wise
None the Number by Oliver Jeffers
Zero the Hero by Joan Holub
More or Less by Stuart Murphy
Tally O'Mally by Stuart Murphy
Place Value by David Adler
What's the Place Value by Shirley Duke
Quack and Count by Keith Baker
Betcha! by Stuart J. Murphy
Mindful Math First Grade Curriculum
Number Sense Materials

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Building Number Sense to 20: Lessons and Activities for Kids

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Math activities for building number sense to 20 in Kindergarten and first grade. A list of resources, books, manipulatives, and freebies are included!

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There are over 16 preschool math concepts (also referred to as science process skills or science learning objectives) is part of teaching preschool math.

Let's talk about each of those skills now!

To learn more about about math in the preschool classroom check out my Preschool Math Page .

Children use math all day long!

During every activity from counting the steps they climb, to sorting blocks and stating "there are more red ones", to separating the carnivores from the herbivores (for the dinosaurs' own safety of course!), children are using math.

Knowing the math skills your preschoolers are developing and should be developing will help you plan math across your curriculum and throughout your classroom.

16 Basic Preschool Math Concepts

16 of the basic preschool math concepts are:

Preschool math concepts overlap and are interrelated with preschool science concepts. In the field of Mathematics, the skills of classifying, comparing and measuring are referred to as Math Concepts. In the field of science, these skills are referred to as Process Skills.

Let's look more closely at the 16 preschool math concepts your preschoolers learn throughout their preschool years. Note how each skill prepares the way for the next.

Observing is the first step in gathering and organizing information. Children use their senses to observe. When given a collection of items (for example apples) children use their senses to observe attributes such as color, size, sweet/sour, texture, and soft/crunchy.
2. Problem Solving:
Convergent problem solving is the ability to gather individual pieces of information together in one's mind and come to a single solution to a problem.

Divergent problem solving is the ability to gather many pieces of information and consider a variety of possible solutions to a problem.
3. Language:

Use math language throughout the day as well as during activities. Introduce new words with activities such as "This is a pattern! Red, white, red, white."

Other examples of math language we use in preschool are heavy, light, tall, short, round, rectangular, add to, take away, etc.
4. One-To-One Correspondence
This the understanding that one group of items has the same number of items as another. It is any activity where the children match one thing to another thing.

For example: 1 button for each bear (see picture below) or 1 paper cup for 1 child, each hand has a mitten.

Number Sense is the concept of understanding number.

It helps children to understand the connections between quantities, counting, more, less, etc.
6. Shapes
Shapes are also known as early geometry! That's right...what is geometry but the study of shapes?

At this age, children will not work with formulas for diameters and circumferences, but rather with identifying basic shape names and comparing, sorting, classifying and drawing them.
7. Spatial Sense
Spatial sense is the ability to place items in the correct spaces or places using a logical design or a pattern. As an example, we see this when children are working on puzzles.
8. Sets and Classifying
Creating sets is the ability to make groups of items in a logical way. It requires the skill of classifying.

Classifying is a higher level skill than comparing. After observing and comparing, the children can take the information learned and begin sorting, classifying and grouping in logical ways.

They begin to separate items based on observations. They may separate apples by those with and without stems, by size, by color, etc.

Order Seriation is another higher level skill than comparing.

When ordering or seriating items, the child compares more than two items or groups and places the items in a logical sequence.

They may place items in order based on size or shape (such as placing fruit in order from smallest to largest).

Or they may place items in order based on first to last (such as placing pictures on a flannel board in order of when they happened in a story).

10. Comparing:
Comparing is the ability to identify similarities in items or groups.

Once children have had time to explore items, they begin to compare.

They begin to notice similarities as well as differences such as same and different colors, weights and sizes of apples.

Patterns are the ability to place items in a specific order that repeats such as:

Patterning a pompom caterpillar in an AB pattern-yellow, blue, yellow, blue

Patterning the children in a line-boy, girl, boy, girl

There are 2 types of counting.

Rote Counting- reciting numbers in order from memory.
Rational Counting- is counting items in a group and then understanding that the last number stated IS the amount for the set.
13. Measurement
Measuring includes many areas such as volume, weight, length, height, temperature and time.

14. Parts and Wholes
Parts & Wholes is an early fraction skill! Fractions! In Preschool? You bet!

At this age, children learn the basics of parts and wholes. Some examples in preschool are:

If we break a Graham Cracker (a whole) in half we have 2 pieces and each of those pieces (the parts) are rectangles!

We can rip or cut a piece of paper (a whole) in little pieces (parts).

15. Numbers and Symbols
When referring to Numbers and Symbols, we are referring to the understanding that a specific number is a symbol and that symbol stands for a set of specific items.

Graphing is a way of recording or communicating observations and data that the children have learned.

More Preschool Math Information
Planning Preschool Math Activities
I create daily preschool math activities for Members of my Preschool Cubby membership program (you can learn more about that here).
Preschool Math Interest Center

There are so many games and materials you can use for math activities in your classroom.

Click here to learn how to best set up a preschool math interest center in your classroom and find what types of materials to have on hand!
Limited Space? No Problem!
You might also be interested in some awesome fine motor/loose part ideas that go well in a math center as well!

If you are limited in space in your classroom, here's an article to help you provide math activities to your preschoolers each day in spite of a small classroom! It was originally written as a way to provide science in a small space but works well for math, too!

More Math Articles and Learning Ideas!

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