Math

Paper Plate Penny or Quarter

Supplies needed:  Small paper plate, penny, brown crayons.

Copy the words from a penny onto a small paper plate.  Give each child a penny and let them draw and color their paper plate to match.

Rubbings

Do rubbing of both sides of the penny or quarter.  Look at other money and see how many different pieces of money Lincoln is on.

Penny and Quarter Activities 

Give each child 5 pennies.  Let them stack, lay out in a line, make shapes, and count them.

Cherry Counting

1-Supplies needed:  Play cherries, numerals. 

Have the children place the numerals in random order and place the correct amount of cherries next to the numerals. 

(can do with pennies or quarters, too)

2-Supplies needed:  play cherries cupcake liners (bowl) 

Give the children each ten “cherries” and a “bowl” paper cup liner. Tell the children to put “1” cherry in their bowl.  Then to put 2 more cherries in their bowl. (1+2).  Now have them count their cherries.  How many are there?  (1+2=3)  You can subtract also.

Fingerprint Cherry Book

Supplies needed:  pre-made construction paper booklet, red stamp pad or red paint in a pie pan.

Make a booklet out of construction paper (for front and back) and typing paper.  Make enough pages to go to the number ten.  Print the numbers 1-10, one on each page.  Have the children place their thumbprint on each page representing the quantity of the number on that page.