Practicing counting at home

The students work through a variety of activities to understand the patterns in numbers.
-Counting as a class during our daily "day count"
-Using Montessori bead chains
-Exploring number lines
-Building hundred charts and puzzles

AT HOME, practicing counting and skip counting is a great way to deepen your child's number sense.

Practice while waiting for the bath to run, in the car, or before an activity starts.

-Count forwards and backwards beginning at different starting points.  ie.  7, 8, 9....  54, 53, 52....
-Count by 2s, 5s, 10s (or by other multiples for a challenge like 3, 6, 9, 12...) forwards and backwards
-Count by 10s starting at different starting points (3, 13, 23, 33, 43.....     67,57,47,37....)
-Print off a hundreds chart and colour patterns you see with crayons.


Talk about the columns and rows. 
Along the rows, numbers increase and decrease by 1s.
Up and down the columns, the the number increase and decrease by 10s.