[blparent] Math Picnic

[Pipi]

Jo Elizabeth,
I love this! Thank you so much for sharing. Savannah loves picnics and is 
really into math. We will be trying this hopefully tomorrow.
Thanks again.
Pipi

----- 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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