Homeschool: Volume

In the morning we talked about different volume measurements and colored, cut and pasted Mr. Volume Robot from HERE.

In the afternoon I was feeling a little Montessori and decided to break out a HUGE bag of rice and the measuring cups!

We talked about the different sizes of measurement and they had great fun playing in the rice!

Nothing a good vacuum cleaner can't clean up! :)

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Printable: Math Dot Helper

Math has become a bit monotonous around here lately, so I've been trying to make things fun and give my first grader a few different strategies for adding and subtracting.

Here is my Math Dot Helper printable! You can print this and have your child place it in front of them when they are doing some math facts. Instead of counting on their fingers you can teach your child to used the dots inside the numbers and eventually transfer this to the numbers on their worksheets!

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