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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 16, 2011 · Last modified February 21, 2016
LD continues to work on his first multiplication tables from 1s to 6s — with lots of skip counting along the way. Today I had him working on 4s mostly. It has been quite a long time since we’ve done active math games outside and we had a reprieve in the weather. So we set up a chalk math snail again. LD had to multiply each number by 4. DD...
Science: Obviously we’re working on our Earth Science Unit and that will probably continue for at least another month. We are also working through the Real Science-4 Kids Chemistry book Pre-Level 1. I really like these books and recommended them to my sister (they homeschool) back a couple of years ago. Her kids are older than mine and she went through the Pre-Level one books and then continued on with...
Active Math Games / Math General Posts / Math--Addition
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published November 14, 2010
We try to play lots of games — and this one is worth a mention because it involves addition, subtraction and simple multiplication. It’s called Mmm Brains — so it also had great appeal to LD in particular! There’s a large selection of brains. Red brains are each 5 points. White brains are 1 point. There are 5 dice — with the numbers 1 through 5 in different colors (yellow,...
Active Math Games / Kindergarten Math / Math General Posts / Math--Addition / Math: Preschool Math
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 8, 2010
These past six weeks or so, LD has been doing a lot of work in his math workbook (that’s not terribly exciting to blog about, is it?!!). That was easiest for me while we were on travel and as we settled in. We generally use Right Start Math, but it is quite Mom-intensive, so we had to put that on the back burner for a while. In fact, we only...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published July 5, 2010
**I love comments!! Please drop me a line if you’ve found anything useful. 🙂 Cheers, Liesl Contents Below: Language Math History/Geography Science Pin Maps Other German Language and Spelling Practice Worksheets I’ve Made for the Kids: All About Spelling Lessons 16-24 Review Fill in the c, k, ck, ss,ff,ll, ng, nk and plurals — s, es Oops — and I see you also have to write the word “plow” and...
I wrote up a list of math resources I’ve come across some time back. This is an old posting, but worth a look for math resources (websites, games, activities) you might not have come across. My kids are young, so these websites are generally for K-2. Math Resources List Part I — Addition, hundreds board, skip counting Math Resources List Part II — Time, Place Value, Money Activities, Multiplication Leave...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Theme Time (age 2-4)
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 7, 2010
My, I feel like a broken record this week, but the themetime table has worked so well! I saw so much spontaneous use of our materials. I use workboxes, but again for ED and DD havingthings out really draws the girls in. So, this set up was all about numbers. I pulledout some math manipulatives for them to playwith. I pulled out all kinds of number relatedbooks. I also pulled...
Kindergarten Math / Math General Posts / Math--Addition
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 19, 2010 · Last modified May 15, 2016
This post was one I wrote when my son was 6 years old. Now on to this entry… We continue to review/reinforce basic math addition facts. I made this little rocket/planet activity that LD and his friend have enjoyed. We also reviewed place value: We built the number 1783 (which separate into 1000, 700, 80 and 3 and stack on top of one another) Picture (below): I put a few 1000s together...
LD is learning to skip count by 3s. He set up the wagonsand then put groups of three mini-erasers above eachwagon. To get him familiar with the general concept ofmultiplication I talk about groups of 3 (1X3 is one group ofthree; 2X3 is two groups of three, and so forth) and had him putthe seals under the appropriate wagon wheel. wagons and seals are available at filefolderfun.com
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