Our Day

 Today we had a fun day of learning and games.  Here's a few things that we did today.

These are just regular flash cards, I think I got them at Wal Mart.  They matched up the number of crayons on one card to the numeral on the other card.  I was surprised at how many Nattie was getting without the help of Mommy.

The finished product.

After they finished I had them put them in numerical order.  They did this in a snap!

These are printables I got off of Hubbard's Cupboard website.  They were supposed to glue the number of red pom poms to the trees that was shown for apples but I had them glue all colors of pom poms to the trees, mainly because I didn't have enough red pom poms to do all the trees.

The finished product.

Just for those who were curious, this is the Bible I read to Nattie who is 3.  We are learning about Adam and Eve and, of course, the birth of Jesus.

This is a game we played today that I got off of www.thoughtsofme.blogspot.com  She has some great ideas for early learning.  This game was super fun.  It's called Fill the Stable.  You roll two dice and put the item with that number on it in the stable.  The only thing I would suggest is maybe add magnets to the back and do this game on a cookie sheet as the pieces slid around quite a bit.

I had each of them count out the number that was on the dice.  It was such a great counting activity as well as a number recognition activity.

The stable has been filled.  We played where if a number was already taken then the person got to roll again until they got a number that wasn't taken.  This was super fun for the girls.



Linking Math

Nattie loves to play with her links.  She links them together and does some "patterns" with them, she sorts them by color and all that fun stuff.  I decided to add a little something to what she could do with them.  So I printed out these number cards and punched a hole in them.  Now she can look at the number and put that amount of links on the card.  It was a HUGE hit.  When she'd get frustrated she'd want to stop but I kept telling her she could do it and she did all of them!  I'm so proud of her.

The numbers with the hole punched in them.  Oh and I laminated them so maybe they'll stick around for a while.

The bin of links.  You can get these at Lakeshore.

Nattie showing us the number 4.

She was very confused at why the 0 had none on it.  This is something that I'm goign to be working on with her, the idea of 0 or nothing.

I am so glad that I did this project... it was simple to do and Nattie loves it.  I'm sure my 5 and 7 year old would get a kick out of it too.  Maybe for them I can have them do a pattern with the amount of links on each card.  If you have any other suggestions on how to use links, please comment and let me know.