This simple light table center — transparent pony beads and tiny clear plastic cups with lids from the dollar store — created an engaging math activity for our preschoolers! Preschoolers just love to fill things up, don’t they?! Whether it’s the cups in the kitchen or bowls in the rice table, the simple act of…
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All About Me Counters
Counters are a fantastic, versatile math tool! I may or may not hoard counters, and was so excited to find this “All About Me” set. This center was easy to set up. We added baskets of the counters and I photocopied a house pattern (from Creative Clips) onto 6 matching colors of card stock. Each…
Valentine Number Sense
We’ve been using counting mat to practice number sense all year. The students love them, but it was time to change the center up a little bit. My friend Tami at Learning and Teaching with Preschoolers posted this great picture of her students sorting the hearts from the sensory table into little labeled buckets. Genius!…
Number Mats
We do lots of activities during preschool to help the children develop strong number sense. These number mats are one of the ways that we practice during center time. There are 12 mats labeled 1-12. To set up the center, we add a bowl full of thematic counters (sparkly snowflakes in January). The students count…
Subitizing with Preschoolers
Subitizing is an important math skill. Elementary school students practice it all the time, but it is a skill that we can introduce in preschool as well. When you play a game with dice, and roll a 5, you don’t have to count the dots to know how many there are, right? It’s the…
Mitten Button Counting
It’s COLD here this week! We are having “Snow Much Fun!” talking about winter. At the math center, the students practiced counting and number identification to 10 with this cute Mitten Button Center. To prepare, we copied 10 mitten patterns onto colored paper. Each mitten was programmed with a number, and we added corresponding dots….
Grid Games
I recently taught a workshop in the county that focused on math skills for preschoolers. One of the things that I love most about teaching these workshops for other preschool teachers and day care providers is it forces me to take a very close look at my own teaching practices. If I am going to…