Summer
Activity:
Jelly Bean Math
Who doesn't love jelly beans? Americans consume billions of jelly beans a year, so it's likely that your preschooler will be on board with this yummy (and educational) activity. You'll help her recognize her senses, as well as make predictions, sort, and chart!
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What You Need:
- Bag of jelly beans (variety bag, with at least 4 flavors)
- Medium sized plastic storage container
- Notepad
- Pen or pencil
- 2 sheets of card stock or construction paper
- Crayons
- Jelly bean graphing page (make your own with our worksheet generator)
What You Do:
- Ask your preschooler to pour about ½ of the bag of jelly beans into the medium sized plastic container.
- Help her identify the colors and associated flavors.
- Ask her to make predictions: How many total jelly beans are in the jar? How many are there of each color? Record her predictions on a notepad.
- Dump the jelly beans, count and sort by color.
- Help your child make a graph on card stock or construction paper that shows how many jelly beans she counted of each color.
- Talk about her predictions.
- Next, let your child have the pleasure of using her senses! Have your child close her eyes and taste-test one jelly bean of each color, guessing the flavor of each. Record her answers on the notepad.
- Repeat step 7 with her eyes open, using the power of sight, and compare results and discuss. Advance this activity by using the entire bag of jelly beans. Count and sort by groups of 5, 10 or 20 -- a wonderful skill builder and yummy too! Or, take a survey of family members. How many jelly beans do they think are in the jar? Who was closest?
Guided Lessons are a sequence of interactive digital games, worksheets, and other activities
that guide learners through different concepts and skills.
They keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
Guided Lessons are digital games and exercises that keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
In this first guided lesson on numbers 0 to 10, kids will be taught rote count sequence and numeral recognition. The lesson has been designed to introduce numbers in a scaffolded way, by first starting with a slow-paced numeral recognition exercise and progressing to a faster pace as the lesson continues. This technique helps build a stronger foundation of math skills.
In this first guided lesson on numbers 0 to 10, kids will be taught rote count sequence and numeral recognition.
This lesson includes printable activities:
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Song: Counting Song: Surf Rock!
Game: Number Demolition: 1 to 10
Game: Numbers 1 to 10 Hopper
Game: Speed Counting 1 to 10
Game: Numbers Ice Cream Attack
Story: The Crabby Crab
Game: Numbers 0 to 10 Puzzle
