Kindergarten at home hands on math activities is all about instilling the love of Math to Babygirl. As a home educator and a Math lover, I am learning the importance of making math fun. Children have this keen sense of learning through play and the teacher in me is thankful to embrace Babygirl’s sense of wonder through our home education journey.
Kindergarten at home hands on math activities are various fun learning activities I am developing for Babygirl to play based learn math skills. Addition is the first math skill most children learn and mastering addition in kindergarten can be the first step toward a long-lasting love of math. Basic addition helps kindergartners gain confidence, demonstrates to them the real-life usefulness of math, master the relationships between numbers and understand how quantities relate to one another.
I am a firm believer in developing early STEM educational skills by creating a home environment that can plant STEM seeds into a child’s thinking and growth. Both my parents are educators and I am blessed to have been trained in a home that built confidence that I can do anything I put my mind to it. I grew up not falling for the stereotype that girls aren’t good in STEM and my heart is to develop that same confidence into my girls.
A 2004 Indiana University study looked at early interventions among kindergartners struggling with math. Kindergarten classes that use several different learning strategies to help children master addition can provide the framework children need to master basic math. Kindergarten at home hands on Math activities involve everyday play hacks to create a lifelong interest in math and help Babygirl excel when she reaches more challenging math classes.
I start introducing early childhood fun learning to Babygirl during her tummy time as a baby and I am thankful for the variety of educational toys and games I could get my hands on. From my oldest child to my third, I am amazed at the vast array of educational resources available for home educators like me and I do not miss an opportunity to create WELLthy MOMents with Babygirl every chance I get.
Today’s Kindergarten at home hands on math activities make use of a box of rigatoni and spaghetti to teach Babygirl the concept of adding and carrying over in a fun learning way. She has been very comfortable with counting to 20 since she was two and mastered number writing by three. I also used puzzles as counting and adding manipulatives to master those basic concepts.
The rigatoni activity was wonderful tool to help Babygirl see how adding helps you build a tower and carry over the overflow to the next spaghetti “tower”. I did not want to overwhelm her with complex math and kept it very simple and fun. She was amazed that the “tower” will top over when it carries too many rigatoni and decided that the carry over looks better as a necklace around her neck.
Kindergarten at home hands on math activities is about making kindergarten math fun. Babygirl’s excitement explaining her fun learning experience to Hubby and her sisters while proudly displaying her cherished rigatoni necklace make it all worth it. We are gearing up for more fun learning Kindergarten at home hands on math activities and early STEM education and we can’t wait to share more with you along our journey.
Happy Math Monday and here’s to counting and adding WELLthy MOMents with our children on fun learning activity at a time!
The WELLthy Mom NODte:”WELLthy MOMents spent with our children play based learning are moments invested in giving them roots and wings.” -Nathalie O’Donald
