Kindergarten/Preschool lesson plans and worksheets

In the links below you will find numeral printing pages. These pages can be copied and made into a Printing Numeral Book. The children can add pictures, stamps, trace with a stencil or use stickers to represent the correct number shown on each page. These pages could also be laminated and placed into the center for children to trace over. Using a washable felt will allow you to reuse the pages throughout the year. The children could use small manipulatives to display the correct number shown on the page.

Zaner-Bloser Numeral Printing 1-5

Zaner-Bloser Numeral Printing 6-10

D'Nealian Numeral Printing 1-5

D'Nealian Numeral Printing 6-10

The printing suggestions used in the Literacy Centers on the website can be applied to printing numerals. Numerals for making collages are found in the Numbers theme unit. Press the back button to return back to this page.

Suggestions for Numeral Printing

Math Sorting

Discuss everyday occurrences where we use sorting. Example: laundry, dishes and money. More suggestions for sorting are included in the theme units.

Sorting Objects

Choose objects that relate to the theme that the children are involved with. For example, after reading the emergent reader Jiggle Worms the children could sort candies representing the jiggle worms. These could be sorted according to common shapes or by colors.

Suggested sorting objects are buttons, animal crackers, shells, rocks, socks and plastic cutlery. These could be sorted according to shape, size and color.

Sorting Pictures

Children can sort pictures with common characteristics. For example, the children sorted the food in the Nutrition theme according to if they were considered a healthy food or a junk food. There are other sorting pictures included in the theme units and the supplementary resources in the members' area. The pictures shown here are found in the member's area under the Nutrition theme page.

Math Patterning

Take a walk and observe where patterns are found. It is important for the children to orally describe the pattern they see. Clapping patterns is a good start to introducing this concept.

Patterning With Objects

Pattern blocks are a wonderful way for children to manipulate making patterns. The blocks can be used for discussing shapes, color patterning, shape patterning and making patterned design pictures.

The use of colored craft sticks is also a great manipulative for making patterns. The photo above shows the pattern upwards, upwards and sideways or red, red, and green.

Patterning With Pictures

In the theme units and supplementary resources in the members' area you will find a wide assortment of pictures for patterning. Example, in the photo shown here the pictures were taken from the About Me theme unit. This shows the pattern balloons, balloons, cake, balloons, balloons, cake. Pictures could be colored, laminted and kept in the center and reused each year or the children can color, cut and paste the pictures on a strip of paper to make their pattern.

Tracing stencils could also be used to make a picture pattern.

Pattern Art

In the link below you will find pattern pictures the children can color to make pattern art. Press the back button to return back to this page.

Pattern Art Designs

One-to One Number Correspondence

Counting in the classroom should be a regular occurance. Warm-up exercises are a great way to bring counting and exercising together. Count how many hops, jumping jacks and toe touches the class can do together. The opportunity to count each day is endless.

Volume, Measurement and Counting

Use a balance scale to estimate how many objects it will take to balance another object. Example, how many pennies or snap cubes will it take to balance a golf ball?
Children weigh themselves and lift a watermelon. What will be heavier the watermelon or themeselves? Weigh to find out the answer and discuss how much heavier they are than the watermelon.
How many cups of water will it take to fill a container?
How many blocks will fit into a toy dump truck (estimate, experiment and count). Discuss who had the closest estimation.
Hide an object in the sand. How many did they find?
Fill gift bags with different weights of objects. The children must order them from the lightest to heaviest or vice versa.
Order objects according to size (smallest to largest or vice versa). This can be incorporated into a craft. Example, the hearts in the photo were colored accordingly, cut and pasted according to size. This activity is found in the Valentines theme unit.
Place pieces of yarn or snap cubes in the math center. Have children estimate the length of different objects in the classroom and then measure and count. A demonstration on how to use the snap cubes or yarn for measuring will need to take place prior to doing this activity. Example, how many snap cube lengths is your arm?

Snap cubes can be used for measuring or making a pattern.

Shapes - Emergent Readers

Using pattern blocks are a great way to introduce shapes.

In the program you will find two emergent readers that use the concept of shapes as their key focus.

1. Shapes Are Everywhere - on pages 56 - 71 in the Space and Robot theme discusses the different places you will find shapes.

2. Funny Shapes - is found in the members' area under the heading Numbers Theme. This book discusses funny things or places where you will find shapes.

In the link below you will find shape worksheets. Press the back button to return back to this page.

Math Shape Worksheets

The "Numbers" theme unit has more Preschool and Kindergarten Number activities

Information on How to Gain Access to This Theme Plus