Construction Vehicle Math Pack

As you may have noticed in recent posts, my little guy loves trucks and diggers, so I have been making him a lot of materials with that theme. This Construction Vehicle Math Pack is the most recent set I have made.

Here are some sample activities from the set.

Counting by 2s.

Numberline practice

Coin recognition

Tens frame practice.

Shape tracing.

Tally stick practice.

Beginning graphing.

Print the Construction Vehicle Math Pack Here

You might also like my Truck and Digger Vocab Cards and the Truck Word Family Roll and Cover

 

Letter L - Lion Week

 

These are our homeschool preschool activities for the Letter L and Lions week. Archer was 31 months. You can see our full "curriculum" post here, but we will only use some activities each week. The majority of his time is still unstructured play.

This was his desk setup. I hung some bulletin board letters, a sign language card (from And Next Comes L) and his work from the week. The shelf had a letter construction capital and lowercase letters, an Alphabet Reader, a Meet the Phonics Letter Reader, and a peg letter.

I'm trying to include readers to read together, as well as books about the week's letter or animal. We had an Animal Antics Reader, a First Little Readers book, a couple of non-fiction sight words readers, a Meet the Sight Words Reader,  My "l" Book and Wild Animals Babies.

There were his shelves for the week. I used Magnatiles to make an L on his white board and added some magnetic letters and fridge phonics. On top I have his Alphabet Soup Can, some lions, and his preschool basket.

Shelves on the left had a rainbow set, a sequencing puzzle, a safari sorting truck and squigz. Shelves on the right had

Magna Quibix, a 12 piece puzzle, shape turtles, soft/hard sorting, a screw driver board and a basket of cars.

Letter construction (From Tired Need Sleep)

Letter maze (free to print here).

Letter L dot to dot (from education.com)

Bottle cap letter pages are still a must for him (free to print here).

Cut and Paste Phonics Hunt.

Tracing cards and line tracing (free to print here).

We did our normal playdough routine with cookie cutters and a  letter stamper (similar to these).  He made squiggle Ls in the dough. We also used our alphabet dough mat (free to print here).

Beginner spelling cards.

He has been a big fan of jigsaw puzzles lately.

Dot Art L (from Confessions of a Homeschooler) with See and Stamps.

Making letters out of Cuisenaire Rods

Lion with magnetic pattern blocks on our magnetic easel.

Lion puzzles.

We found a lion in his Alphabet Dot to Dot book.

Foam Letter Block L

Wild Animal Babies 3 Part Cards

Letter L sensory bin

Soft and Hard sort with toys and objects. I used his Venn Diagram rings to make it easier. We also read My World of Science: Soft and Hard and did the lesson his Dimensions Math Pre-K A book.

Coloring some lions in his Safari Water Wow Book

Playing with his screw driver board

Playing Pancake Pileup

Place value blocks are still a huge favorite! He frequently asks to get them out.

Taking after his brother by reading in strange positions. This book, Time to Say Please, is a current favorite.

More puzzles!

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Truck Word Family Roll and Cover

 Since Archer did so well with our Halloween Word Family Roll and Cover, I decided to give it another go with some trucks.

I made two levels of difficulty, one with very different word families and one with much more similar ones. I made printable dice, but chose to use a dry erase one instead (Dollar Tree). I had every intention of using regular "rocks," but it turns out I didn't have enough small ones in my sensory bin stash. 

Print the Truck Word Family Roll and Cover Here

You might also like my Truck and Digger Vocab Cards

Beginning Cuisenaire Math Mat

 As I've mentioned before, my little guy really seems drawn to math. I've been doing a lot of reading into using Cuisinaire Rods to teach math, since they are very hands on and somewhat intuitive. I found some great resources and have been trying to figure out how to adapt that to a 2.5 year old. 

All the methods start with getting playing and getting familiar with the rods. I want him to learn that each color is a different length and that rods of the same color are always the same length. I also want to introduce him to some of the vocabulary associated with rods. Initially I'm focusing on the color names (which are not 100% intuitive) and the ideas of laying the rods "end to end" and "side by side." I also want him to be able to talk about and compare lengths.

To help with that, I made this Cuisenaire Exploration Mat.

Print the Cuisinaire Exploration Mat Here

Check out other math ideas here: