A printable, ready-to-use blank calendar with a landscape monthly grid and labeled day columns. Great for Kindergarten through 5th grade classrooms to map out lessons, holidays, and daily routines—just add the month and the dates.
Using the Counting Songs (Classic Video Collection), students practice skip counting by all of the numbers by singing and counting along to these thirteen videos.
A calendar game where kids build this month’s real calendar with Sunny: put the days of the week in order, count the days, then answer today, yesterday and tomorrow and pick the weather. Play online on any phone, tablet, Chromebook or computer.
Using the Counting By Fives Song (Original Music Video), students practice skip counting by 5s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
These subitize 1 to 10 flash cards help PreK to 1st grade children see how many dots at a glance with dot patterns and ten-frames. Practice page and answer key included.
Using the Shapes Song, students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition. The Shapes Song by Have Fun Teaching is a song that teaches the shapes. Shapes have names their made of angles and lines, there are flat shapes and solid shapes we see them all the…
Using the Shape Songs (Classic Video Collection), students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Counting By Ones Song, students practice counting by ones to fifty by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Counting By Ones Song (Original Music Video), students practice counting by 1s by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging video!
Using the Months of the Year Song (MP3), students learn all about the months of the year in order to remember the order to build their calendar skills.
These colors word wall flash cards pair eleven color words with bright color spots for Preschool to 2nd Grade, with a practice page and answer key included to build confident early readers.
Using the Square Song (MP3), students learn all about squares, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Circle Song, students will learn all about circles. A circle is a shape that goes around and around. It's like a pizza, and a cookie, a ring, and a coin. A circle is a shape that goes around and around. In this song, your kids will also draw…
Using theCount to 100 Song (MP3), students practice counting to 100 by singing and counting along to this fun and engaging song!
An ice cream train station game where preschool kids find the number 0, the empty train car and the empty basket to learn that zero means none. Play online on any phone, tablet, Chromebook or computer.
Using the Counting Songs (MP3 Album), students practice skip counting by all of the numbers by singing and counting along to these thirteen songs.
Using the Adding 1 Song (Lyric Mjusic Video), students sing and practice adding 1 with all addition facts 1-15. Your kids will learn how to add 1.
The I Can Count to 100 Worksheet gives Kindergarten students a hundred chart with 24 numbers missing to fill in. An answer key is included, so counting practice is ready in one print.
This triangle cut outs activity has children sort 12 shape cards and cut out big triangles. Made for Preschool to 2nd Grade, with an answer key included for quick checking.
Counting, shapes and lots of singing
Preschool math is all about play with a purpose. Kids learn to count out loud, and then to count objects by touching each one once, so the last number tells how many. They recognize numerals, start to see small groups like three dots without counting (that's called subitizing), and compare which pile has more. They name shapes like circles, squares and triangles, spot patterns like red, blue, red, blue, sort by color and size, and learn words like big, small, first and last. The click is when a 4-year-old counts the cookies on a plate and announces, "Five! One for everybody!"
Little learners need to touch, move and sing their way to math. Here's how we do it.
Start every circle time with a counting song and hold up fingers as you sing. Songs give little kids the number order before they can count objects. Once the words are automatic, counting real things gets so much easier.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withCounting Songs (Classic Video Collection)VideosOpen it →Flash a card with a small group of dots for two seconds and ask, "How many? How did you know?" Some kids see "two and two make four." Talking about what they see builds number sense, not just counting.
Why it works: using clear, consistent math words out loud is one of the U.S. Department of Education's recommendations for elementary math.
Try it withSubitize 1 to 10 Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Go on a shape walk around the room or playground: the clock is a circle, the door is a rectangle. Then sing a shape song and have kids draw the shapes in the air. Moving and spotting makes shapes real.
Why it works: playful practice with a clear goal keeps kids practicing longer, and simple learning games have been shown to build real skills (Ramani and Siegler, 2008).
Try it withShapes SongSongsOpen it →For preschoolers, play IS learning. These are favorites.
GamesCount the days, find today's number and talk about yesterday and tomorrow. A perfect daily routine.
Open Calendar Game →
ActivitiesKids count out star cutouts to match a number, then line them up to compare.
Open Star Cut Outs →
Flash CardsPoint to a number and kids jump, clap or stomp that many times.
Open Numbers Word Wall →Teacher favorites right now: Blank Calendar, Counting Songs (Classic Video Collection) and Calendar Game.
By the end of preschool many children count to 20, count up to 10 objects accurately, recognize numerals to 10, name basic shapes, compare more and less, and copy simple patterns. Every child develops at their own pace.
Many 4-year-olds can count to 10 or 20 out loud, and count around 5 to 10 objects correctly. Counting objects one by one is the more important skill to practice.
Subitizing is seeing how many are in a small group without counting, like knowing a die shows five at a glance. It builds number sense and later helps with addition.
Count stairs, snacks and toys together. Ask "Who has more?" at snack time, point out shapes on signs, and make patterns with blocks or beads. Short, playful moments are perfect.
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