More Numbers

I made this simple number book for Tama last year when he was begging for his own homeschool activities on the days he was home with Will and I. He's decided to work in it again this year. Practising writing numbers and stamping or drawing the corresponding number of items.

Subitising

Subitising wasn't a concept in the maths curriculum when I went to Teacher's college and quite possibly it's just an Aussie thing- but they were very keen on it at the first Kindy Will went to and I made up this game back then. It's pretty simple- each person has a game board dice and pre-inked stamp. We take turns at rolling and stamp the square beneath each number. Who ever fills their board first wins.... no prizes for guessing who won this one. :-)

Weighty matters

Recently got these scales off ebay- they were a little smaller than I was expecting but they'll do the trick for a while. Will and Tama spent some time working to get the sides as close to balanced as possible.

Number Works

A super simple activity gluing 11 felt shapes onto out number 11. This goes in a clear file when the glue is dry- we're building up a collection of numbers from one to 20. When we done we might go up in 10's with something small like lentils. I know Tama would love to represent one hundred it's one of his favourite numbers!

Playing with Fractions

We've had these blocks since Kieran was little (13 odd years!) Tama enjoys putting them together and finding the patterns.

Jelly

Jelly (not in line with our new diet) is something that Tama can make himself (I pour the water from the kettle). He enjoys doing it and knows the whole process. Even better he enjoys eating it.

I printed the photos from this session and he dictated the instructions for Jelly Making into his language book.

Geo Board

This is the Geoboard that Tama chose at the homeschool meet-up this is something he is choosing to play with on a regular basis at the moment. At the moment it's just free form but eventually we'll look at doing some regular shapes.

Magnets

Tama is enjoying manipulating these magnets to make shapes and structures. I'm hoping we can add to this set at some point- they're very cool.

Pattern work

Singing while he works Tama is making his own patterns and identifying some of mine with basic shapes.

He's also using the shapes to represent things in this case a T-Rex is coming to the house which has a path and a garden. There are clouds in the sunny sky.

Number Matching

Matching numbers to their representation in images (dinosaurs of course).

Triangles

Some art inspiration for us... thinking about the shapes of Crystals and Tessellation in Math.

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Naturally...

I love this spontaneous activity. I cleared off the 'nature table' in anticipation of the products of our chemistry work and the boys added their chem collection. Will sorted and classified his by type and colour. Tama added his much smaller collection in size order (bottom right hand corner below).

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Subitising Maths Game

This super simple game requires a 4x6 grid (per player) see below, a dice and something to make a mark. It easier if you have a dice for every player and we use pre-inked stamps to make a mark- just for fun. The top row of the grid is filled with each side of a dice. Players take turns to roll the dice and then stamp a space in the grid under that number. The first to fill all 18 spaces is the winner. I originally made the game for Will in Kindy but he still enjoys it now. And it helps Tama with Subitising. Which is the process of immediately recognising how many items are in a small group

You can fit two of these on an A4.

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Baking Day

Baking is an activity on our weekly schedule-  but it's something I rarely take photos of it because we are generally involved in the moment. This time we made Rice bubble cakes and Carrot Cake.

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Engineering Challenge

The question was simple: How high can you go? 

Pulling blocks out of a solid Jenga tower to add to the top

A staircase just because.

That high.

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