This is just a little update about a couple of things the children are excited to be working on in class right now.
Fishing for numbers is a game that supports both number recognition as well as our current focus on recognizing familiar arrangements of dots (think dice). I am encouraging them to group as much as possible as opposed to count by 1s. They LOVE this game!
This is a counting activity which most of them are quite comfortable with by now. We add a challenge by only using one hand to pick up the required number of bugs (think our childhood game of Jacks)...even more of a challenge to use the non-dominant hand. This is great practice for fine motor skills as it really challenges the hand muscles. You can do this at home with dried beans, pennies, and the like any time and is especially recommended for anyone who really needs to be working on fine motor skills (see report cards on Monday).
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