Earlier: Read "10 Apples Up On Top" by Dr. Seuss, ask students too count the apples that appear on each characters head.
Middle: Use the markers to label the "holes" in the carton/board 1-12. Students take turns rolling the dice and filling up the number of the carton they landed on. If they number a student has rolled is already full, roll 3 times per turn then it's he next persons turn.
Later: Use multiple cartons to make a larger number.
End: Once carton is filled, start over until everyone has had a turn. Then the activity will end when the children no longer show interest.
Follow-up Ideas: Counting out everything, throughout the day. Including snack, how many steps it takes to get outside, and how many students are in the classroom.
Shapes in the Classroom Shape Identification and Recognition. Mathematics: 34. Shapes
Materials: Paper, Pencils, Geo-Shapes, and Geo-Shapes Character Boards
Age Group: 4-5 years old
Beginning: Read "Shapes, Shapes, Shapes" by Tana Hoban
Earlier: Discuss the names of shapes and how to draw them, drawing on the board for the children to see.
Middle: Have the students pick 4-5 shapes to hunt around the room for, once they find one of each they will draw them on their own paper, and stand and share.
Later: Have the students compare the shapes they drew with one another. Then try labeling each shape they drew.
End: This lesson ends with s five-minute warning before begging to clean up.
Follow-up Ideas: The students may use the geo shapes and geo boards that use shapes to create new pictures.
Big & Small Children Measure to describe, compare, and order things. Mathematics: 36. Measuring
Materials: Extra Clothing, Paper Plates
Beginning: At circle or group, wearing something too big, ask the children whats wrong with what the teacher has on. Then again with something too small.
Earlier: Looking at pictures in books, also finding things around the room that are bigger or smaller.
Middle: The students will go around classroom pulling too big and too small items on either the big or small plate. Refer to it as size, and as sorting shapes. By shape, size, and possibly colors.
Later: Identify lines and corners on each shape.
End: The activity ends when the students no longer show interest.
Follow-up Ideas: Seeing how many shapes can make up or fit in a larger shape without altering it and create a pattern by shapes not necessarily colors.