Number work for Nursery-1

Besides the Montessori  materials like the sand paper numbers, number rods and  spindle boxes  we  have few more exercises for practice. Nursery children  are learning to  relate  quantity to the symbol. Counting till five seems easy  for them but larger numbers are confusing like the dots on  frogs and bones. 

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matching felt egg halves

The bumblebee number matching mat is from the site http://www.earlylearningactivities.com/PDF/bbnm.pdf.

Bumblebee number matching 

matching  felt apples to the numeral

matching number of fruits to the numeral

I made this frog dot matching to the number from the site  http://www.kinderprintables.com/frog08/frogflipbookbw.pdf. I pasted them on the cardboard and covered with wide cello tape.

 Dog-bone matching and apple-worm matching  is from the book - "The Complete Book of Activities, Games, Stories, Props, Recipes and dance for Young Children"

dog and bone matching

apple and worm matching

The pinwheels  and marbles matching are from the book 

Helping Children Learn by Zakiya Kurrien. The book is available in  http://www.amazon.com/Helping-Children-Learn-Zakiya-Kurrien/dp/0861319036

The pinwheels and marbles with jars are laminated.

pinwheels matching

matching marbles to the jar

waiting patiently for their turn

The numerals at the end of the tentacles indicate the number of marbles. The marbles are flat ones. The octopus drawing is pasted on a thick card board, colored with crayons and covered with cello tape.

Octopus number matching with marble

Children played hopscotch inside. I pasted brown tape on the carpet and marked the numbers with white crayon. It was fun watching them play.

 

playing hopscotch