Pre-math skills

This week, we have continued with the pre-math skills. This book 1 will be dedicated to colours, shapes, and concepts like up-down, left-right, same-different, over-under, near-far, fat-thin and tall-short.

This time, we sang with the children the song Five Little Ducks to review the numerals 1-5. After singing, the teachers had them finger paint the ducks at the same time they said the numbers.

One little duck went out to play

Over the hill, far, far far away

When Mama duck said

Quack, quack, quack, quack,

No little ducks came

Back at home

And to help children gain an understanding at the subtraction concept, we drew five ducks on the board and sang the song erasing one duck at a time and having children count the ones that are left, using this opportunity to introduce the concept of none and zero.