New activities for Math

Since last year I’ve been gathering a few stuff from Spotlight and Daiko for our tot school and I am happy to announce that I have discovered a few stuff that we can use for our homeschooling.

Hence, here are some of the “new” activities that we did for Math this week, using “my finds” on the said stores.

Counting apples (using craft pompoms)

I would show him a number and let him put the right number of red-pompoms on the tree.

Sorting colored popsicle sticks

 He enjoyed this one so well! Popsicle sticks were something new to him and liked how colorful it were.

The color/number wheel with matching wooden pins

Saw these pins at Daiko, and at first I didn’t want to get them because they were so small.  But the ones at Spotlight were too pricey so I got them instead.  I haven’t introduced this one to Mavi though, but I am hoping that he will like this as well.   The advantage of these small wooden pins is that they are very easy to manipulate.  We will be using these to match the number of dots or colors on the wheel.

I hope to come up with other ideas for Math... I will try to create original activities, but since I am not a professional teacher, it’s difficult for me to think of creative ideas for teaching mathematics. So what I do is that I resourced most of the activities that we have on the homeschooling blogs.