It's getting to be that time of year when it is too hot to go play outside.
Additionally, Joelle has been sick and not in school so I decided to start doing some home school type exercises.
I have been on the prowl for the academic standards for kindergarteners. Skip counting by 2, 5 and 10, number lines, knowledge of even and odd numbers, and tally marks are all on the long list of skills kindergarteners should possess.
We have been working on number lines (fill in the missing number) for the last two weeks. So I took hopscotch to another level.
We created this game organically. As it unfolded I realized what geniuses we are! It is a great game that could be taken outside.
We used our old ikea painting paper roll, turned it on it's unused side and taped it to the floor (using our tiles as a guide). We counted up one side to ten and back the other to twenty. We alternated colors, odd numbers one color and even numbers another.
We started out stepping on each number and naming them. We counted forward and backward making sure to spend extra time on the numbers we have a hard time recognizing.
Then I told her the odd numbers were green and the red numbers were even. I explained, that an even number can be broken into pieces of two and the odd numbers couldn't, there would always be one left over.
We jumped on only the evens, then only the odds, counted up, counted backwards, started counting on specific numbers and counted from them up and down. We have spent hours on this project without getting bored of counting - you think I'm joking.
Then we made a score board. Even vs. Odd.
We picked an odd number to be our number of turns, threw an old deflated balloon on the board (like I said this happened organically) and then made tallies for each time our deflated balloon hit even or odd.
Why not start them early on statistics......right? We had fun guessing which side would win and taking turns switching sides and roles.
I have been doing a lot of research and prep for the next year of homeschool and it has seemed a bit overwhelming at times. After this day, I realize this is going to be awesome! Teaching Little Narch things is probably what I am best at in life!
Additionally, Joelle has been sick and not in school so I decided to start doing some home school type exercises.
I have been on the prowl for the academic standards for kindergarteners. Skip counting by 2, 5 and 10, number lines, knowledge of even and odd numbers, and tally marks are all on the long list of skills kindergarteners should possess.
We have been working on number lines (fill in the missing number) for the last two weeks. So I took hopscotch to another level.
We created this game organically. As it unfolded I realized what geniuses we are! It is a great game that could be taken outside.
We used our old ikea painting paper roll, turned it on it's unused side and taped it to the floor (using our tiles as a guide). We counted up one side to ten and back the other to twenty. We alternated colors, odd numbers one color and even numbers another.
We started out stepping on each number and naming them. We counted forward and backward making sure to spend extra time on the numbers we have a hard time recognizing.
Then I told her the odd numbers were green and the red numbers were even. I explained, that an even number can be broken into pieces of two and the odd numbers couldn't, there would always be one left over.
We jumped on only the evens, then only the odds, counted up, counted backwards, started counting on specific numbers and counted from them up and down. We have spent hours on this project without getting bored of counting - you think I'm joking.
Then we made a score board. Even vs. Odd.
We picked an odd number to be our number of turns, threw an old deflated balloon on the board (like I said this happened organically) and then made tallies for each time our deflated balloon hit even or odd.
I have been doing a lot of research and prep for the next year of homeschool and it has seemed a bit overwhelming at times. After this day, I realize this is going to be awesome! Teaching Little Narch things is probably what I am best at in life!
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