Category: Little Mathematicians
{Little Mathematicians} Sneaky Train Addition
| February 6, 2012 | Posted by Mommy Cameron | Homeschooling under Fun at 4, Kiddos In Action, Linky Party, Little Mathematicians, Math, Subjects & Themes |
We are still following along with the Singapore Math 1A curriculum (I only bought the workbook), but I have been making the concepts our own. This week, one lesson was working on the factors that add up to 6. If you have been around this blog for any time at all you know that Thing 1 is obsessed with trains. So I decided to create a way for him to practice figuring out what is needed to make 6. I took the blank trains that I created and on the engine I wrote the number 6 and put 6 dots on… {Read More}
{Little Mathematicians} Roll and Park (cars, trains, trucks, etc)
| January 30, 2012 | Posted by Mommy Cameron | Homeschooling under Linky Party, Little Mathematicians, Math, Math Printables, Printables, PowerPoints and More, Subjects & Themes |
One of the things that I have grown to love about homeschooling is the ability to take any curriculum and relate it to my boys interest. It makes the learning more meaningful and interesting. Number/Word Recognition Activities: This week Thing 1 worked on number/word recognition with a game that involved using trains. I created two boards, one with the words for the numbers 0-5 and the second with the words for the numbers 5-10. For basic practice, have the student roll the die (provided) and park their train (car, truck, horse, animal, rock, etc.). To add an element of competition, print… {Read More}
{Little Mathematicians} Trains Roll and Graph
| January 16, 2012 | Posted by Mommy Cameron | Homeschooling under Fun at 4, Kiddos In Action, Linky Party, Little Mathematicians, Math Printables, Other Theme Printables, Other Themes, Printables, PowerPoints and More, Trains, Transportation |
Thing 1 is obsessed with trains. Part of the Saxon 1 math curriculum we are loosely following called for graphing one day this week. One of my favorite aspects of homeschooling is being able to adapt the material to my sons’ interests. So instead of graphing the hair color in our household, which wouldn’t be a very fun graph, I created a roll and graph activity for Thing 1. He LOVED it. He actually asked me if I could print him off another one so that he could have the different colored trains “race” again. This activity let’s him practice his… {Read More}
{Little Mathematicians} Silly String + Math
| January 9, 2012 | Posted by Mommy Cameron | Homeschooling under Fun at 4, Kiddos In Action, Linky Party, Little Mathematicians, Math, Subjects & Themes, Totally 3 |
Our neighbors brought us a three cans silly string that they had at their house because they thought I “needed the mess.” Anyway, since we haven’t done any “formal” school this week, I thought I would turn the silly string into a simple measurement activity before we just had fun. Supplies: Silly string measuring tape writing utensil Directions: 1. I set up the measuring tape and had the boys guess (estimate) how far they thought they could spray the silly string. This was good number, estimating and measuring practice. We recorded these answers. 2. Then I had each boy take a… {Read More}
Little Mathematicians : {First Edition} Linky!
| December 12, 2011 | Posted by Mommy Cameron | Homeschooling under Linky Party, Little Mathematicians |
Being a former high school math teacher, math is one of my passions. Now that I am homeschooling my boys, I love to share that passion with them. I think math can and should be interesting and exciting, so I am on a quest to find fun ways to teach math. That is where you come in, each week I want you to share the fun ways you teach math. Each week I want to feature some of the fun ways you teach math, as well as share some of the ways I have shared math with my boys. I am in need of some new… {Read More}
