math
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Friday Freebie – Beach Counting
Happy Friday! I hope that you are enjoying these summer weeks, I still haven’t figured out why they seem to fly by so much faster than the rest of the weeks during the year. Today’s freebie is perfect for summer, or for your beach theme. These play dough counting mats from Over the MoonBow encourage children to practice math skills while being creative. Go download your set and have a wonderful weekend!
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Friday Freebie – Number Puzzles
Happy Friday! Aren’t holiday weeks the best?! They go by so fast and then it’s the weekend again. I love these number sequencing puzzles, and this summer set from Klever Kiddos could not be cuter! These are great practice and can be used to focus on the number sequencing, or putting the picture together in the correct order. Go download your set and have a wonderful weekend!
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Easter Math Activities
There are so many Easter-themed activities out there, I’m sure that just a quick Pinterest search would fill your lesson plan for the next two weeks. Unfortunately, to find the great ideas you generally have to sift through all of the duds, and the ads. So this week I’m going to do the work for you, I’ll be rounding up all of the best Easter activities so that you’ve got them all in one place! Math was not my strong suit as a child, so as a teacher I made an extra effort to find fun math activities for my students. There are a ton of math activities that you…
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Friday Freebie – Shape Poems
Happy Friday! If you’re new to Preschool Ponderings, Fridays around here are also known as Freebie Fridays. Sometimes I have an exclusive freebie that I’ve created just for my blog readers, sometimes I share free activities from my Teachers Pay Teacher’s store, and sometimes I share amazing free resources from other creative teachers. Either way, you win because you get something new, fun, and best of all FREE every week! This week has been all about different ways to learn about and explore shapes, so it is only fitting that today’s freebie fits that theme. These Shape Poems from Amanda Pauley are a great way to help your little ones…
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Shape art
Both of my posts this week have been all about understanding shapes, but when you’re introducing a new concept to preschoolers it’s important to have fun with it too. Here are some great ideas for shape art projects that will inspire exploration and creativity! Shape Collages – from Nurture Store Create a city out of shapes Make pictures with shape blocks Recreate shape pictures What other shape art activities do you do? Share them in the comments!
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Comparing and Contrasting Shapes
All of yesterday’s shape talk got me thinking – thinking so much that I had to create something new! I put together this Comparing Shapes set to help you work on some shape comparisons. Each poster is designed to encourage students to look at the number of sides and corners (also new great vocabulary to introduce!) each shape has. Once they can isolate these details and use them to focus on the differences and similarities of each shape, they will have a better understanding of what makes each shape. This set also includes a chart so that after you’ve explored each shape, you can put all of the information for…
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Shape Scavenger Hunt
I know it was a little quiet around her last week, but I am back and I have some fun activities to share with you this week! One of my favorite math concepts to explore with preschoolers is always shapes. Understanding and recognizing shapes is necessary for more than just basic geometry, we need to understand shapes in order to build spatial awareness. Shapes also invite comparisons and attention to detail, as well as encouraging children to pay attention to the world around them. I like to introduce the shape discussion by going on a scavenger hunt for shapes . This is the perfect intro activity because it is something…
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Movement Math Activity
Since I’ve been sharing movement activities this week I wanted to remind you about this one; This Movement Math set requires very little prep and is the perfect activity for circle time or small groups. It includes two sets of cards, one with numbers and the other with simple motions. Children get to draw one card from each pile and lead the group in completing the motion the correct number of times. If you’re looking for something different to get the wiggles out or a movement activity that you feel good about putting on your lesson plan, then this one is perfect! Download your copy HERE.
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New for Halloween!
I was not about to let Halloween go by without coming up with something new and fun, and I’m hoping that you are as excited about this activity as I am! Do you remember my Story Problems for Beginners? This is one of my favorite sets because it has so many different built in supports and visuals, it brings these concepts to life in a very easy to understand way. I just added a Story Problems for Beginners set for Halloween!!!! I had so much fun switching up the colors and graphics for the holidays and I’m really happy with how it all turned out. The first group of problems…
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My Favorite Halloween Activity
I can’t let Halloween fly by without sharing my all-time favorite Halloween activity! This Jack-o-Lantern shape set can be used in so many different ways, so it is easy to use with children of varying ages and abilities. Children can use the shapes to make any face they wish, or they can recreate the inspiration cards by recognizing the shapes that have been used, finding them, and placing them in the proper locations on the Jack-o-Lantern. The set also includes matching cards, which children can use to play memory, or to match to the larger Jack-o-Lantern inspiration cards. Finally, there are “find me” cards. Children can work together to find…
