Picnic Week, Days 6-7

To finish up picnic week we learned about area and measurements.

On Friday we used picnic blankets to talk about area (since squares are built in to the cliche checked picnic blanket).

You can't really see in the picture but I did them all on a Word table made with equal widths and height. KL was counting all of them since area is new to her; KK was counting sides and multiplying to figure it out.

The last day we made lemonade shake ups, practicing with measurements.

They squeezed the lemons and measured the ingredients and shook until it was mixed good.

That's all for now,
Jo!

Picnic Week, Days 3-5

Sorry I'm running so late on my posting :( 

I'm still in recovery and have been light headed and easily exhausted this past week. 

Anyway... 

Day 3 was a hot dog themed greater than/less than game. (I don't have any pictures.) It was another thing I did on Word. I took a hot dog picture from clip art and used a random number generator (from 10-99) and put a number on each side and let them sort/answer less than or greater than. 

Day 4 was a simple worksheet I threw together pretty quickly practicing fact families.

KL did addition/subtraction. KK did multiplication/division. Fact families is still a pretty new concept for KL (fresh out of Kinder) but by the last 2 sets she stopped asking me for my fingers to help her count because she was noticing the relationship between them all. 

Day 5 was matching numbers on fruit slices. 

Oranges were the number, strawberries were ten/one blocks, and lemons were tens & ones. (Again all done with clip art on Word.)

They made a few matches and then decided to play a "Go Fish" style game with them. 

That's all for now, 

Jo! 

Picnic Week, Days 1-2

This week is all math concepts with a picnic theme.
Sunday we were out of town and didn't get back until late in the evening so they did Sunday's activity on Monday, after completing Monday's activity.
(All of this weeks activities were pretty easy to set up and they're really nothing special so they may very well all be quick posts but it'll still let you know what we're up to and maybe inspire you to find a way to make things work for you.)
I had a hard time finding picnic themed math ideas but I found plenty of math ideas and found a way to work them into a picnic theme.

So, here we go:
On Monday we played Race to 100, on a picnic blanket.
Super easy, I just made a 10x10 table on Microsoft Word and colored every other square red like a cliche picnic blanket. I hand wrote the numbers because I didn't think to add them before I printed.

The rules are simple enough, take turns rolling the dice to "climb" the graph and reach 100 (no going over) first. We used ours in a binder sleeve to we could dry erase and play again. (We also couldn't find our dice so we used our Chutes and Ladders spinner.)

Then, for Sunday's late activity we made math problem sandwiches:

(Again it was all done on Word, using clip art and word boxes over them.)
I made several different "top buns" and several different lettuces so they had plenty of problems. I used a random number generator for what numbers to use and chose between 5-49 so it wouldn't be too hard for them. (KL hasn't done tower/2-digit addition.) I made KL do addition and KK did multiplication. They each chose a number, whether bun or lettuce, and then worked the problem on their white boards.

That's all for now,
Jo!