[blparent] Math Picnic
Deborah Kent Stein
dkent5817 at att.net
Fri May 4 02:22:49 UTC 2012
You get an A-Plus!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at msn.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 9:07 PM
Subject: [blparent] Math Picnic
> So this afternoon when Sarah came home from school, I had this flash of
> inspiration. Since it doesn't happen often and since it worked so well, I
> thought I'd share it with the rest of you, particularly moms of
> preschoolers.
>
> Sarah and I had a math picnic. I filled plastic sandwich baggies with
> little finger foods like crackers, cookies, and cereal pieces. I would
> have used fresh fruit as well if I had any, but I hadn't been to the
> store. Anyway, we sat out on the porch swing and opened up the picnic
> basket. We would pick out something to snack on, and I'd make a simple
> addition or subtraction project out of it.
>
> If you have three Cheerios, and the Cheerio monster eats two of them, how
> many are left?
>
> If you have two cookies and you share one with me, how many do we each
> have?
>
> If you have four crackers, and the cracker monster eats one, how many are
> left?
>
> Sarah enjoyed making up the stories as much as she did eating the snacks,
> and it turned into a really fun activity. Plus, it's early math
> education, presented as a game.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant
> of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been
> all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
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