GettingreadyforFirstGrade!

In Kindergarten, instructional time in math focused on two critical areas:

CriticalAreaOne
representing, relating, and operating on whole numbers, initially with sets of objects; and

CriticalAreaTwo
describing shapes and space. More learning time in Kindergarten should be devoted to number than to other topics.

The following summer math activities will enable your child to review math concepts and reinforce skills learned this year. Just a few
minutes each day spent thinking and talking math will help reinforce the math that has been learned and begin to bridge the
foundation for extending to the concepts that will be developed next year. The goal is for your child to have fun thinking and working
collaboratively to communicate mathematical ideas. While your child is working, discuss the math concept being reinforced.
 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

1. Look at some of your toys. 2. Count how many 3.

Try to sort them into groups. shoes YOU have. Write

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(by color, by size, by shape, down the number. Count
by type) How many are there how many shoes another
in each group? family member has.
Write down the number.
Who has more/less?

4. 5. Pick a room in your 6. Use sidewalk chalk to write 7. Find 10 coins .Toss the ten 8. Lets go shopping! In my 9. Hop on your right foot 10.
house? How long is it? all the numbers (in order) that coins. How many land heads cart I have 12 eggs, six and count how many hops
Measure with blocks or you can. Next to each up? How many land tails up? apples, and 3 cans of soup. you can do. Hop on your left
toys. Measure with your number draw that many suns. Record your numbers. Draw a picture of my cart and foot and count how many
feet. Which was more? (Use paper and pencil if you hops you can do. Which
Did you get the same result? what is inside. What do I have
Which is less? Why? do not have chalk.) foot could you hop on
Keep repeating! What are you the most of? more? Which foot could you
noticing? hop on less? Compare.

11. 12. Ask your family and 13. Count backwards how 14. Grab a handful of objects 15. Keep track of the 16. Count the people 17.
friends Do you like sharks long it will take you to put on (pennies, beads, marbles...) weather for one week. How who live in your house
or lions better? Record your shoes. Guess how many there are. many sunny days? Rainy with you. How many toes
everyones answers. Which For example when you
animal did people like the Count your objects. Were you days? How many more rainy do they have altogether?
start putting them on count close to your estimate? days or sunny days were How many fingers? Draw
most/least or were they the
same? 20, 19, 18... there? Were there any windy a picture and label it.
days?

18. 19. Write your name on a alk around the house.

20. W 21. How many jumping jacks 22. Read a counting book or 23. Make a picture using 24.
piece of paper. How many How many steps does it take can you do it one minute? Is it talk about counting with 2 circles, 3 triangles, 1
letters are there in your you to get around your more or less than 20? How do someone and then make a square, and 5 rectangles.
name? Write each family house? Then try giant
members name on a paper
you know? counting book of your own. Explain how you made it
steps. Which used more Did you decide to make it to someone! Have them
too. How many letters are
there in their names? Write steps? Make sure you start counting forward or count all the shapes.
the number beside each and stop at the same spot! backwards?
name.

25. 26. Try to explore... 27. Count backwards starting 28. Make numbers or shapes 29. Talk with someone about 30. Read Shape, Shape,
http://playkidsgames.com at 10... out of play-dough. If you dont things you might find Shapes by Tana Hoban
What math did you learn? Then starting at: have play-dough draw shapes Outside (rocks, leaves, or talk about shapes with
If you cant explore a 15... and numbers. Count how sticks). Go outside on a your child. Walk outside.
website, come up with Then starting at: 20... many numbers you drew. nature walk and collect small What shapes do you
your own math game and Count how many sides your items you find. Sort them by see? Draw all the shapes
have someone play with shapes have. color, shape, or size and you see. Count them.
you! count them.
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1.

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2. 3. Count the number of 4. Draw three cube towers, 5. Three dogs were playing in 6. Name five different places 7. Bobby Bear is missing 5 8.
steps it takes to get from the first with 3 cubes, the the park. One more dog you see numbers outside. buttons on his jacket. How
your front door to the second with 5 cubes, and came to play. How many (on street signs, stores, many ways can you use
refrigerator and from the third with 7 cubes. Circle dogs are playing in the park? license plates...) Draw a blue and red buttons to
finish his jacket? Draw a
your front door to the the tower that is the tallest Draw a picture. picture of the places.
picture of all your ideas. For
bathroom. Represent and put an X on the tower example, 4 red and 1 blue,
these numbers. Which that is the shortest. 2 red and 3 blue, etc.
took longer?

9. 10. Draw a picture that is 11. Complete a yes/no 12. Find 10 coins. See how 13. Find a partner. Each person 14. Play a strategy game 15.
divided into 3 parts. Label survey asking the people in many different ways you can hides their hands behind their Connect 4 or Checkers. Did
them morning, afternoon, your house, Do you like the make the number 10. 5 back. Then say 1, 2, 3 GO! your strategy work? Will you
and night. Draw a picture of rain? Record their answers heads and 5 tails, 7 heads On GO, show a number on try a different strategy the
what you do at each of your fingers...1, 2, 3, 4, ... Did next time you play? If you
by writing Yes and No. How and 3 tails, 7 tails and 3
these times. Which time of your partner show the same dont have a game, see who
the day do you do the most many people said yes? How heads, etc. Record your number? More? Or less? can jump the most in 1
things? many people said no? findings with pictures or Repeat! minute. Record your
equations. answers.

16. 17. Estimate how many 18. Go around your house 19. Pick a number from 1- 20. Name different objects that 21. I am thinking of a 22.
bites it will take to finish (or wherever you are 12. Find that number around come in groups of 1,2,3,...etc. number. It has 1 ten and
your cereal, soup, rice, staying) and count the your house! Look at clocks, (12 eggs in a carton) Make your 5 ones. What number am
sandwich, etc. before you windows and doors. Are phones, books, magazines, own book from 1 to 12 drawing a I thinking of? (15) Make
start eating! Count each different group of objects for
there more windows or etc... Pick another number up some riddles using
bite as you eat. How close each number! Be sure to add a
were you to your estimate? doors? Draw the one with and repeat! title. tens and ones. (1-19)
Were you over or under? more.

23. 24. See how many people 25. Practice counting on from 26. Build something with 20 27. Play with bubbles. How 28. Set the table for dinner! 29.
you can get to exercise with numbers other than 1. blocks or Legos. Describe many can you blow in one How many plates do you
/30. you. Do 10 jumping jacks, Example: Start at 4 and stop your structure and the minute? (you can use bubble need to put out? How many
10 push-ups, 10 sit-ups, at 18, start at 17 and stop at shapes you used. Draw your gum or bottle bubbles) Draw a forks? How many glasses?
and 10 toe-touches. How 20, start at 3 and stop at 10. picture and label your bubbles Draw a picture of the table.
structure and label it.
many exercises did you do? Now come up with your own with numbers. How many ITEMS are on
Count by 10s. start/stop numbers. the table altogether?
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 Book List
Author Title
Aker, Suzanne. What Comes in 2s, 3s, and 4s?

Angelou, Maya. My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken and Me.

Anno, Mitsumasa. Annos Counting Book.

Annos Counting House.

Baer, Edith. This Is the Way We Eat Our Lunch.

Bang, Molly. Ten, Nine, Eight. (Available in Spanish)

Barton, Byron. Building a House.

Bogart, Jo Ellen. Ten for Dinner.

Briggs, Raymond. Jim and the Beanstalk.

Burningham, John. Would You Rather...

Burns, Marilyn. The Greedy Triangle.

Carle, Eric. Roosters Of to See the World.

Cooper, Jason. Skyscrapers: Man-Made Wonders.

Crews, Donald. Ten Black Dots. (Available in Spanish)

Crosbie, Michael and Architecture, Shapes.

Rosenthal, Steve.

Dale, Penny. Ten in Bed.

DeRubertis, Barbara. Count on Pablo. (Math Matters Series.)

Dorros, Arthur. This Is My House.

Duke, Kate. Twenty is Too Many.

Ehlert, Louise. Fish Eyes.

Emberley, Rebecca. My Numbers Mis Numeros.

Falwell, Cathryn. Feast for Ten.

Felix, Monique. The House.

Friedman, Aileen. Cloak for the Dreamer.

Gauch, Patricia Lee. Christina Katerina and the Box.

Grossman, Bill. My Little Sister Ate One Hare.

Grossman, Virginia and Ten Little Rabbits.

Sylvia Long.

Hamm, Diane Johnson. How Many Feet in the Bed?

Harris, Trudy. 100 Days of School.

Hoban, Tana. Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres.

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes.

Jonas, Ann. Splash.

The Quilt.

Karavasil, Josephine. Houses and Homes Around the World.

Kassirer, Sue. Whats Next, Nina? (Math Matters Series.)

Kushkin, Karla. The Philharmonic Gets Dressed.

Lionni, Leo. Inch by Inch.

Lobel, Arnold. A Lost Button, in Frog and Toad Are Friends.

McBratney, Sam. Guess How Much I Love You.

Merriam, Eve. 12 Ways to Get to 11.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum Shapes.

Micklethwait, Lucy. I Spy Two Eyes: Numbers in Art.

Mora, Pat. Uno, Dos, Tres, One, Two, Three.

Morris, Ann. Houses and Homes.

Murphy, Stuart J. Animals on Board.

The Best Vacation Ever.
Super Sand Castle Saturday.

Onyefulu, Ifeoma. Emekas Gift: An African Counting Story.

Paul, Ann Whitford. Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet.

Peek, Merle. Roll Over! A Counting Song.