{"id":234,"date":"2020-03-27T09:52:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lindseyray\/?p=234"},"modified":"2020-03-27T09:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:52:07","slug":"practicing-math-skills-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lindseyray\/2020\/03\/27\/practicing-math-skills-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicing Math Skills at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In school, we practice number recognition, counting, and sorting.&nbsp; Below are some ideas of how you can work on these skills at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Count snack foods! Example: If you are having Goldfish crackers for snack put a few in front of your child and count them out.\u00a0 Have your child point to each cracker and count along with you<\/li><li>Count while folding laundry \u2013 How many shirts? How many socks?<\/li><li>Go on a walk and look for numbers on mailboxes<\/li><li>Read counting and number books <\/li><li>Sing counting songs (5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, Five Green and Speckled Frogs, etc.)<\/li><li>Build a block tower and count how many blocks you used<\/li><li>Sort toy cars or legos by color<\/li><li>Compare sets of groups (10 blocks and 2 blocks) and identify which set is &#8220;more&#8221; while using your core vocabulary board <\/li><li>Listen to counting songs on youtube!  Some of our favorites are Jack Hartman counting 1 to 100, Counting backwards from 20, and skip counting by 2&#8217;s, 5&#8217;s, and 10&#8217;s<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In school, we practice number recognition, counting, and sorting.&nbsp; Below are some ideas of how you can work on these skills at home. Count snack foods! Example: If you are having Goldfish crackers for snack put a few in front of your child and count them out.\u00a0 Have your child point to each cracker and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lindseyray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lindseyray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lindseyray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lindseyray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lindseyray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lindseyray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lindseyray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lindseyray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lindseyray\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}