Today, I want to share one of my favorite math activities...my kiddos love it! We did these activities: actually two of them...the low and the high...
For my low kiddos, we are working on 1 to 1 correspondence. It is a hard concept for them...but with this activity, I think they might get it...
This is what they see when they first come to sit at the table.
A piece of white copy paper, with yellow dots (I have used green, blue, red, pink, etc). This gives them the outline for what they need to do. Next to their white paper is a page of stickers. My students with better fine motor skills get smaller stickers...my kids with worse fine motor skills get larger stickers.
Their job: place one sticker on each dot!
Here are my kiddos working hard on their activity! This student actually asked for more! I added more dots and he worked away! When he finished, we counted into groups of 10.
The beauty about using this activity is that I have started using it with many concepts...colors, shapes, letters, etc. Students trace letters with stickers, place stickers of the same color in a colored box, outline shapes with stickers...and they love it every time!
My other groups had a different math activity to work on 1 to 1 correspondence and counting.
We actually used a white board to work on addition problems. Since most of my students are working on adding with objects, I decided to pull out the dice and counters. We had many opportunities for counting, matching numbers and adding using this method!
The students would roll the dice (we used a single dice for our first day). Then they had to use their counters to build each number. My middle groups stopped at that step...building numbers to six can be quit difficult for them.
My higher students had to put both groups together and add the groups together.
