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40 Awesome Number Activities for Preschoolers
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Number activities for preschoolers don't have to be boring and just worksheets, make them fun so your preschooler will love math!
I love math. I’m a nerd, yes. But I love anything to do with numbers.
I really do hope I can pass this along to my kids by making learning activities about numbers and counting fun for them and not a chore.
As I’m typing this, Henry’s shouting excitedly as he’s counting how many things on his sprayer…though I’m not really sure what he’s counting exactly. He made it to 39 though!
Because I’m a huge math nerd I searched for easy and fun number activities for preschoolers.
My Favorite 40+ Number Activities for Preschoolers!
Try these activities to help preschoolers learn their ABCs!
Recognizing Numbers Activities for Preschoolers
Identifying numbers can be a learning experience for preschoolers (and younger!). Many of the ABC recognition activities can also be adjusted for numbers.
My kids love these 12 number activities for preschoolers to recognize numbers.
- Turn a number into sensory art – perfect for the 100th day of school!
- Go on a hunt for numbers and match it with the same number!
- Follow a number from start to finish in a maze.
- Trace numbers, really big!
- Little Family Fun created a parking lot with numbers.
- Pop! Find the number and pop it!
- Find and match playing cards.
- Have target practice with water balloons and numbers, like Motherhood on a Dime
- Make art! Do this paint by number canvas art.
- Use stickers and printable number cards to play hide and seek, from Teach Mama.
- Draw and paint over numbers with q-tips, like Toddler at Play!
- Clip and match with giant numbers from You’ve Got This Math!
Activities for Number Recognition
Counting Activities for Preschoolers
Learning there’s a sequence to the numbers and what comes next.
Try these 18 number activities to help preschoolers learn to count.
- Connect the dots! A simple past-time activity that reinforces the order of numbers.
- Upcycle a box into a puzzle of numbers!
- Create a maze of numbers to drive through. Can they count their way to the end?
- Stacking up boxes and counting how high you can go!
- Make a craft together with multiple pieces. Have your child do the counting!
- Count cars of a particular color while on the road, or semis, or vans, whatever suits their interest!
- Create a learning game with your ABC mat and number blocks. Choose a number block and pound the corresponding times with a hammer on the corresponding number mat!
- Let your child run an experiment and measure how much something holds! How many cups fit?
- Make puzzles with a picture. Label sections of the puzzle in numerical order. Cut apart and have your child put it back together again, from Growing in PreK.
- Use friendly animal crackers to practice counting and number recognition, like I Can Teach My Child.
- Measure objects (or yourself!) and count how big they are, from The Imagination Tree
- Count objects around the house. No Time For Flash Cards wants to know “How many doors do you have?”
- Play any board game, or make your own! Little Family Fun creates a fish race game!
- Count with LEGO! Do Play Learn likes to label a paper with numbers and count out the LEGO next to it.
- Snack time! Use dice and fruit snacks and play until you eat them all up, like Kids Activities Blog.
- Have a bean bag toss on the stairs, number them!
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Counting Activities for Preschoolers
One to One Correspondence Activities for Preschoolers
Knowing your numbers is one thing and knowing how to count is another. But being able to put them into context that they each have meaning is done with one to one correspondence.
Get ready for preschool with 35 name activities!
I love these 12 number activities that help a preschool practice one to one correspondence.
- Head out into nature and explore flowers. Count and compare flower petals!
- Go on a hunt for a number and match it to its corresponding dots.
- Build towers of blocks on a number mat, with the correct number of blocks high!
- Spark your child’s interest with their interests! A farming approach of loading grain bins with the corresponding number of pieces of “grain.”
- Have a newspaper throwing game and count up the newspaper balls, or how many you make, or miss!
- Make something in the kitchen together, or do an experiment and let your child measure out and do the counting.
- Sort through objects by color, and count how many you have of each!
- Fill a dump truck with objects (like Dominoes!) and count how many you can fit in there, like Inspiration Laboratories.
- Estimate first for some fun and then count item, from Teach Preschool.
- Have a counting race in the front yard and pick dandelions in the process!
- Roll a die (or two!) and practice one to one correspondence as kids build towers with blocks.
- Use a dice and small objects (like pom poms or corn kernels) and count them and fill up a tray.
One to One Number Activities for Preschoolers
Counting and number books that will get preschoolers excited about numbers:
- The Baker’s Dozen: A Counting Book
- I Spy Numbers
- One Big Building: A Counting Book About Construction (Know Your Numbers)
Do you actively work on numbers and counting with your child? Share your favorite activities!
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Sand Sensory Play and Make Exciting 100 Number Art
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Take sand sensory play to a new level and create a number 100 art project or any other picture you want with your toddler or preschoolers!
Henry had his first homework assignment for preschool.
To create the number 100 out of something.
(Not 100 of something, but to make the numbers themselves.)
We discussed it together to decide what to make.
Henry told me his teacher made one out of corn!
We decided we wanted to make the number 100 art with dirt. Great opportunity for some sensory play.
Well, its February in Iowa and it just snowed about six inches, so dirt wasn’t to be found.
We settled on sand. (Thankfully, our sandbox has a lid!)
Sand Sensory Play to Make Number 100 Art
Henry created the number 100 art piece while having some sensory play with sand, inside!
It was fun and George even joined in.
For this Number 100 Sensory Sand Play Art Project You’ll Need:
- Black, or dark, thick paper (scrapbook paper or card stock work well.)
- Glue
- Paint brush
- Sand
- White, or light colored, crayon
- Small construction trucks (or small sand shovels, spoons or anything to play in the sand and use to get it onto the paper.
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Creating the Art with Sand Sensory Play
First, I had Henry write the number 100 on a piece of scrapbook art paper before the sand sensory play started.
I was amazed at how easy this was for him.
His writing skills have really taken off, even if they aren’t correctly done all the time, I’m still impressed. (He often starts at the bottom of letters and numbers, instead of the top.)
I then traced over it to thicken up the lines.
Henry painted the numbers with glue.
And then the real fun began.
The sand came out.
Let the sand sensory play begin.
Henry decided to dig in it with his backhoe. Loading it up and hauling it to his paper.
This literally took him well over an hour to do.
He covered his numbers with sand, as well as pushing the sand around to make piles and spread it out. He was pretty busy with his sensory sand play.
When all the numbers in 100 were completely covered, he picked up the art and shook it off.
Ta-da!
The number 100 art was still there where he painted his glue!
What’s your opinion?
Does he get an E for effort?
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Summary of classes in mathematics for senior preschool age. Theme of the lesson: "Number and number 9" | Plan-summary of a lesson in mathematics (senior group) on the topic:
Abstract of a lesson in mathematics for senior preschool age. Theme of the lesson: "Number and number 9"
Author of the lesson:
Purpose:
Create conditions for getting to know the number and number 9.
Tasks:
Introduce the number and number 9, teach to correlate the number of objects with the number.
To develop mathematical speech, the skill of oral counting within 10, the ability to work independently.
To cultivate the ability to listen to other children, to form a positive motivation for learning.
Lesson type:
Learning new material.
Equipment:
Interactive whiteboard, presentation, Peterson workbooks, handout.
Course of the lesson:
Organizational moment, psychological mood
The sun has risen for a long time,
Looked into our window,
Urges us to the lesson -
Mathematics now.
(showing the 1st slide)
Checking basic knowledge
Name the geometric shapes that make up these funny chickens. (1 slide. Show and name the figure)
Connect the number and the number of objects. (2 slide)
Match the number and the number of items.
What is the largest number from the data, the smallest.
Number series
(3rd slide)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
count to 10 and back;
how is 10 different from other numbers?
count from 9 to 6, from 1 to 8;
name the next (for) number 8, 5;
name the previous (before) number 10,7;
What is the number greater than 6 but less than 8, 3 and 5?
what number is to the left of 10, to the right of 8?
name the neighbors of the number 8.
Trap
Examples with errors are written on the board.
Children are asked to correct these errors by giving reasons for their answer.
3 + 2 = 6
8 - 4 = 5
7 - 1 = 5
7 - 7 = 2
6 + 2 = 7
5 + 1 = 7
stay with us in the winter and do not fly away to warmer climes.
What do we call them? Wintering. Name some wintering birds.
How many pigeons came for us to feed? (4 slide)
8 pigeons arrived. And then another one flew in and they became? 9.
Today we will get acquainted with the number and number 9. We meet our birthday girl.
(5 slide)
Formation of knowledge in practice
What does the number 9 look like?
Where do we meet the number 9? (Number, on the clock, the ninth month of September, May 9 - Victory Day. Is there a 9th day of the week? Why?)
How can I show the number 9? Write, draw, lay out from sticks, mold from plasticine. Let's turn the number 6 and get 9.
Show the number 9 from plasticine (on the tables at each plasticine blank).
Circle the number with your finger. Remember the spelling of the number 9. Writing in the air.
(Slide 8-10)
Composition of the number 9
Components when added. Has something changed from changing the places of the terms?
Fizminutka "How are you?"
You will answer each of my questions in a friendly chorus: “That's it!” and gesture to show the necessary actions. (Fizminutka is repeated twice).
How are you?
Are you going?
How do you run?
Do you swim?
Looking forward to dinner?
Are you following?
Are you sleeping in the morning?
Are you naughty?
Consolidation of knowledge in practical activities
Work according to Peterson's notebook. Determination of the place of the number 9 in the number series. Prescribing the number 9.
Differentiated task
Group 1 - independently solve the examples that Pinocchio brought.
8 + 1 =
1 + 8 =
9 - 8 =
9 - 1 =
Group 2 - work on the board.
Compare the numbers that Pinocchio wrote. Put the sign "" or "=".
Final reflection
What number have we met? How many items are represented by this number? How to get the number 9?
Conversations about the important: program, topics, content of lessons
What is “Conversations about the important”
“Conversations about the important” is a half-hour class hours that are held as the first lesson on Mondays in all Russian schools and secondary vocational schools.
The purpose of these classes, according to the general director of the Russian society "Knowledge" Maxim Dreval, is to form in schoolchildren "love for the Motherland, pride in their country, patriotism."
The telegram channel of the Ministry of Education says that during the “Conversations about the Important” children will discuss with the teacher issues related to the history and culture of Russia, its role in world processes, with a focus on the traditions and characteristics of the country's regions.
The first “Conversation about the Important” was held in Kaliningrad on September 1, 2022 by Vladimir Putin. Only the winners of the Olympiads took part in this lesson. And on a mass scale in Russian schools, the program started on September 5, 2022 with a lesson on the topic “Knowledge Day”.
All official materials of "Conversations about the Important" are posted on the "Unified Content of General Education" website: here you can download methodological recommendations, scripts, videos, posters, presentations and interactive tasks for lessons. Materials appear gradually: at the moment, the programs of the first two classes are available. Lesson scenarios and assignments vary depending on the age of the students. On the main page of the project, it is indicated that all materials for teachers are in the nature of recommendations.
As conceived by the creators, "Conversations about the important" at school are built in the form of a dialogue between the class teacher and students.
According to Sergey Kravtsov, head of the Ministry of Education of Russia, “Conversations about the Important” should not repeat the forms traditional for a lesson, the teacher’s task is to involve the class in a discussion and answer questions that concern children. Lesson scenarios include games, interactive tasks, work with additional materials. At the end of each lesson, reflection is expected - children can speak out about what interested them, what surprised them, what conclusions they made. Starting from the 3rd grade, students can leave feedback about the lesson in the questionnaire, which is available via a QR code.
Teachers can prepare for the “Conversations about the Important” with the help of a series of intensives “Class Marathon” from the Academy of the Ministry of Education — links to upcoming broadcasts appear on the Service for Class Teachers page. You can watch recordings of past intensives in the Academy's VKontakte group - they are collected in a separate playlist.
Answering the question whether it is obligatory to attend "Conversations about the Important", the Ministry of Education refers to Article 43 of the Federal Law "On Education in the Russian Federation", according to which students are required to "conscientiously master the educational program, <...> including attending plan or individual curriculum training sessions. At the same time, these extracurricular activities do not involve reporting, and students do not receive marks for them.
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What is known about the program "Talk about the Important"
A total of 34 extracurricular activities are planned for the 22/23 academic year. The official website currently hosts the program of the cycle of class hours “Conversations about the Important” from September to November.
Most of the topics are dedicated to memorable and festive dates.
We have studied the programs of the first four "Talk about Important" in school - here is a summary of the teaching materials for grades 1-2, as well as high school and SVE.
September 5 — Knowledge Day
At the first lesson of the cycle, younger students get acquainted with the history of Knowledge Day in Russia, learn about such traditions as the festive line and the first bell. The teacher talks about the sections and circles that are in the school, asks if the children have enrolled in any of the sections. Children discuss with the class teacher what they expect from studying at school, analyze poems by children's poets about learning and perform interactive tasks.
Teachers tell high school students and students of secondary vocational education about the educational platform "Russia is a country of opportunities", which brings together 26 competitions, projects and olympiads for young people.
Teachers share the platform website and offer to study projects at home with parents in more detail. Also, students are told about the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren and motivated to take part in it.
September 12 — “Our country is Russia”
First and second grade students listen to songs about Motherland and nature, as well as audio recordings with the sounds of wildlife — the murmur of a stream, the crackle of a fire. Children complete interactive tasks, such as matching photographs of natural objects with their names, and studying and discussing poems about animals with the teacher.
Teenagers in this lesson get acquainted with several dictionary entries about patriotism and learn to isolate the general from different definitions. Students also read and discuss excerpts from fiction and interviews on the topic of patriotism. In the course of interactive tasks, high school students will need to remember what time periods significant events in Soviet and Russian history belong to, such as victory in the Second World War, Gagarin's flight, perestroika.
September 19 — 165 years since the birth of K. E. Tsiolkovsky
The lesson for elementary grades is built in the format of a journey through the main milestones in the development of Soviet cosmonautics, as well as the biography of K. E. Tsiolkovsky. Children learn about models of domestic rockets, and also discuss with the teacher their attitude to stories about space and their dreams.
In the first part of the lesson for teenagers, the teacher talks about outstanding domestic scientists who have contributed to space exploration. Next, the teacher is invited to conduct a quiz, during which students are divided into teams and compete with each other in the number of correct answers to questions about astronautics. Teenagers get acquainted with the biography and achievements of K. E. Tsiolkovsky, discuss his statements with the teacher.
September 26 - Day of the Elderly
The teacher discusses two holidays with the students of the first and second grades - International Day of the Elderly (celebrated on October 1) and Grandparents' Day (October 28).
