Praises of a Wife and Mommy

As I sat down to type this I realized we worked on so many skills in this one activity.  I found some great printable's for a shape book.  On each page it had a shape to trace then on the other side it had a number 1-4 and what ever number was shown we colored that many of the shapes.  Then we used some of our fun colored beans to glue inside the traced shape.  Now we have a book to review shapes.  It covered a ton of shapes too. :)  Selah had already mastered square, triangle, circle, star, heart, oval and now she is learning  cube, pentagon, rectangle, cylinder, diamond and even a few more challenging ones.      Anyone of my followers notice a theme with my daughter???  Yep, her mouth is always open or her tongue is out.  CUTE! 

About a week ago I posted about using some yogurt covered raisins as manipulative's for counting.  On that post Mom of 2 Posh lil Divas  commented on the post and mentioned making a counting book with stickers or bingo doters.  Well I loved the idea so we did both.  :)  Selah is starting to recognize her numbers!  :)  YAY!  She is doing well with counting but she wants to keep on counting without stopping when we are talking about a certain number.   Making these two books was fun but good practice and now we can reuse them to practice our counting over and over and number recognition until she has it mastered.  :)    I let her place the numbers anywhere but I think I might make a set of numbers using the touch point placement.  :)   I like touch point math.  :)  I learned it in 2nd grade and sometimes I still picture where the dots are.   On to stickers.   What are you doi...

Today I gout out Selah's number puzzle and we worked on identifying each number.  After she did that I got out a yummy snack, yogurt covered raisins, and I had her counting them out next to the number she grabbed.  She did very well but sometimes she seemed to get lazy and just grab them and say the number instead of counting them one by one.  I think she will ask to do this again and next time I can make it more difficult too.  If she was older we could work on adding and subtracting too! :)   I enjoyed our little lesson today!  How are you teaching numbers and counting?