For math last week, Esmeralda (3.5 years old) and I wanted to explore the different kind of lines there are. We decided to explore straight lines, parallel lines, and curved lines. You could do this same activity and include other fun lines, like perpendicular or zig-zag lines! I wanted to do something a little seasonal as well, so I found free clip art of an elf carrying presents and a North Pole sign. I then created the idea of helping each elf get to the North Pole with this line matching Read more [...] Line Matching Activity: Elf to the North Pole
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For math last week, Esmeralda (3.5 years old) and I wanted to explore the different kind of lines there are. We decided to explore straight lines, parallel lines, and curved lines. You could do this same activity and include other fun lines, like perpendicular or zig-zag lines! I wanted to do something a little seasonal as well, so I found free clip art of an elf carrying presents and a North Pole sign. I then created the idea of helping each elf get to the North Pole with this line matching Read more [...] 
We had a short week this week due to Thanksgiving, but one of the fun things we did for Letter J was do jelly bean math matching!
After buying some jelly beans, we found math matching printables from 3 Dinosaurs website. She has a Thanksgiving Pack of printables that you can print for your own personal use. You can use these specific pages at any time during the fall since the pages I printed from her pack feature cornucopias, and not a pilgrim or a turkey, for example.
Esmeralda and I 
This week is Letter H so for math I decided to introduce the number of one hundred! Esmeralda (3.5 years old) also loves to color, so I wanted to make learning to count to 100 a little more fun by making my own color by number chart!
My first step was to find a very basic, free image on Google with a chart that went up to one hundred. I then opened it up into Paint and created my own color code and typed out the numbers for each color next to it. There are several different ways the numbers 
To help teach my 3.5 year old daughter the concept of "greater than", I made a simple yet fun game for her! Since today is Halloween, I made our numbers with jack-o-lanterns! This game can easily be changed to fit any seasonal theme or any other theme desired.
What You Need:
Blank piece of printer paper
10 index cards
Sharpie
Crayons
How to Set Up:
Take a Sharpie and title your game board on the blank piece of paper. Also draw a large greater than symbol.
Take the 
This week for letter F, I wanted to see if Esmeralda (3.5 years old) could understand a very basic concept of fractions. I have been craving pumpkin pie forever, so I had my husband go out and buy our first pie of the season. Usually I would make my own but my pregnancy craving said I had to have it right that moment, ha ha.
Anyway, here is a video of our short lesson.
She seemed to have caught on when I cut the pie in half and asked her how many pieces of pie that left when I cut 
For this week's math lesson, I wanted to see if my 3.5 year old daughter could grasp the concept of estimating. I put some elbow macaroni for us to estimate inside a jar to start us off on our journey.
I decided to do a video of her thought process when she and I came up with our estimate of 125 pieces of macaroni in the jar. She really just wanted to count them. However, if you watch the video, you can see that she does realize estimating only 1 macaroni piece is too small and 5,000,000 
This week I wanted to teach Esmeralda how to measure distance between objects and how to measure specific objects. She always asks me to measure her, as well as her little brother, every time I pull out the measuring tape to do their monthly measurements so I decided to let my daughter have free range with the measuring tape. It's super simple and something most houses have on hand.
First she was interested in measuring how far the computer tower was from the floor and how tall mommy's 
Today was our first dive into math. I wanted to see if my 3.5 year old could grasp the very basic, simple concept of addition. In the following video, you will see our method of basic addition.
I chose to add by 1 to make it as simple as possible since she is still so young. We only added up to 10. I also tried not to use so many math terms, as long as I occasionally reminded her that we were adding one animal cracker to her existing pile. I chose animal crackers because we are