Pre-K Numeracy Resources

  • Sort, seriate, classify, and create patterns.

    Activity 1: Sorting

    Have your child sort items in your house (socks, cereal, crackers, etc.). Have your child tell you what they are sorted by.

    Activity 2: Patterns

    Create patterns out of things in your house or actions (examples- big rock, small rock, big rock, etc. or clap, pat, pat, pat, pat, etc.).

    Practices combining, separating, and naming quantities.

    Activity 1: How many...

    Give students 5 small objects, grab/cover a few without them looking. Ask them how many you are hiding? How many do you have? Repeat by hiding a different number of pennies. Repeat. (Ex. Pennies, cereal, beans, buttons, or rocks).

    Activity 2: How many all together...

    Using small objects (Skittles, M&Ms, Smarties, beans, buttons), give students a few, between 1 to 5. Ask them how many? Then give them a few more, between 1 to 5, and ask how many they have all together? Ex. I had 3 red skittles, you gave me 2 yellow skittles, now I have 5. 

    Count at least 10 objects using one-to-one correspondence. 

    Activity 1: Cereal Counting

    Count by 1 to 10 using pieces of cereal.

    Activity 2: Penny Counting

    Count pennies one at a time to 10.

    Recite numbers up to 20 in sequence.

    Activity 1: Count by...

    Practice counting aloud with your student by 1's and by 5's to 20.

    Activity 2: Count up from...

    Give your student any number and count on from there.  Example: start with 5 and count to 20.

    Activity 3: What number comes next?

    Ask your student what number comes next when counting. 

    For example:
    1, __
    7, __
    9, __
    2, __
    4, __