Websites Archive - November
Spotlight on Numbers
Children
In November , our spotlight was on NUMBERS and websites which offer activities for children to explore.
Ladybird Books - Start School’s Tell Me the Time, Please, and Fun & Games/Ladybug One Spot’s Jumping Frog, and Twinkle, Twinkle 1, 2, 3 are some of the colorful and kid-friendly number activities at the Ladybird Books site. There are some nice reading activities to be found here, too.
Find One Missing Number - This game uses little green aliens holding number cards to challenge children to put the select the correct number missing in sequence.
Down on the Farm - Children help Farmer Rumtum count the animals and plants on his farm so that he can finish in time for his lunch. Simple counting 1 to 5.
Numbers to 20 - The site begins by going through the numbers to 20. After that it looks at each number. You can listen to the name of the number and see how it is written. Each number is represented by a corresponding number of objects.
Nursery Rhyme Activities - At this site, children listen to and sing along with some three nursery rhymes - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, The Grand Old Duke of York and Baa, Baa Black Sheep. Children then complete activities based on the characters and events of the nursery rhymes they have heard. Most activities involve counting or sequencing numbers.
Parents
Mathematics from Age 4 to 5 - PBS outlines the math skill levels parents may expect to recognize as some children develop from age 4 to 5. Includes numbers, operations, geometry and spatial sense, measurements, patterns, reasoning, and algebra, and statistics and probability.
Numbers - Topmarks for Excellence in Education offers tips and activities for helping young children learn through play how to recognize and apply numbers.
Help with Math
Surf Net Parents provides lots of fun math-building activities for parents to do with young children at this site, including Rhyme and Sing, Number Hunt, Walk and Count, Find It, Sort It Out, Shape Up, and more. And you won’t need any special supplies – you already have them. There are also some practical notes for parents about why early mathematics development is important and advice how to not transfer parental fear of math to the child.
Teachers
The Chalkboard: The Preschool Place - Simple activities designed to develop logical thinking, serializing, measuring skills, shape discerning, number recognition, and pattern recognition are shared at site which was developed and is maintained by a Headstart teacher.
Pattern Resource Pack - This resources pack introduces children to the idea of repeating patterns of an ABAB design, and then to an AABAAB design. Pupils look at color patterns, shape patterns and picture patterns using emblems. They have the opportunity to complete patterns or create their own patterns.
Building Blocks - This lesson introduces pupils to shapes and patterns. There are a series of activities, all of which test children’s ability to place shapes in a particular order. Children will also learn to differentiate between colors. The lesson can be simulated in the classroom using building blocks. The highest level of play challenges a child to describe a pattern to be created while another child builds it per her description.
[Posted on November 7, 2005]
