An activity we did today
Using cheap dollar store ice cream bowls, spoons, with some fuzzies (pom-poms).
We practiced matching numbers with 'scoops' of ice cream.
Lil' Monster counts out scoops into the bowls: 0-6;
Then mixes up some flash cards;
than matches the flash cards to appropriate bowls.
Some eating pretend eating happens along in the process.
Learning new numbers, I leave the cards in order (7-13).
He uses his memory of how to count orally 1-20,
to match up with what he sees.
Then he counts the right amount of scoops into bowls.
He takes the flash card and bowl and lines them up off to the side when completed.
Then I 'check' his work and encourage him along.
It's an easy thing to do, and makes a big impression.
It is a far cry from just learning to count pictures on paper in order to learn numbers.
For a more hands on child, this really helps to cement his knowledge.
And it is soooo
DELICIOUS!
P.S. Nammi means yummy in Icelandic
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