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Welcome How to Use these Cards
Hi there! I’m Sarah, the Teacher and Reading Specialist turned I suggest printing these cards on cardstock or gluing them onto
homeschooling Mom behind How Wee Learn. I am so happy you some cardboard so they are sturdy for little hands to use. Once
decided to grab these Number Formation Cards for your child! they are printed and cut, it is time to play!

Teaching our children counting and numbers is a lot of fun! We can Here are a few ways that you can play with these cards:
play so many fun games and activities to help our children in this
area. In fact, there are six areas of math readiness we want our 1. Have your child clip the correct number of clothespins to the
preschoolers to have a foundation in: polka dots on each card.

1. Counting 4. Measuring 2. Have your child trace his finger over the number as you say
2. Recognizing Numbers 5. Patterning the rhyme together. You can even add hot glue to the number,
3. One-to-One 6. Shapes creating a ridge for your child to trace with his finger.
Correspondence
3. Lay the cards on the ground and have your child go on
Ensuring our preschooler has the opportunity to play and explore in a scavenger hunt to find objects to go on each number.
each of these six areas of math will give them the building blocks Perhaps he find two shoes for the number 2, or eight spoons
they require moving forward. We call these the “Preschool Core to go on the number 8!
Skills for Math.”
4. Lay the cards on the ground and have your child do an action
We know that our little ones learn through play, and we can at each card. Perhaps he does three jumps at the number 3,
harness the power of play to give our children the very best start! or claps 9 times on the number 9! Some other actions might
include: squats, stomping, clicking his tongue, touching his
This is exactly why I created Play into Kindergarten Readiness. This head, jumping jacks—anything!
preschool program covers all six math readiness skills, the seven
phonological awareness skills, introduces letters and sounds, 5. Pop the numbers on the stairs for your child to call out. He can
strengthens fine motor skills, and so much more—all with only 20 simply call out each number in order as he walks up, he can
minutes of play a day! use his finger to trace the number and say the rhyme, or he
can touch each polka dot counting out loud as he walks up!
For the next five days, you can get your complete day-by-day plan
with Play into Kindergarten Readiness for up to 25% off right here: If you like these ideas, you are going to love Play into Kindergarten
Readiness. It is full of ideas like these, broken down into one each
day. I have included a sample week for you in this pack.
Play into Kindergarten Readiness
Thank you so much for choosing to download these Number
https://shop.howweelearn.com/pages/play-into-kindergarten- Formation Cards! I hope you and your little one love them.
readiness
If you have any questions at all, I am only an email away!

xo Sarah

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Around, around, and around you go, The number 1 is one straight line.
when you get home, you have a 0. You can do it, it’s looking fine!

2 3
Around the tree and straight on back, Around the tree, around the tree,
the number 2 is on a railroad track. that’s the way to make a 3.

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Down, across, and down once more, Down, around, and put on a hat,
that’s the way to make a 4. the number 5 is made like that.

6 7
Down, around, and into a mix, Across the sky and down from heaven,
that’s the way to make a 6. that’s the way to make a 7.

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Make an ‘S’ and close the gate, Circle high then straight on down,
that’s the way to make an 8. the number 9 will touch the ground.

123
10 4567
8 9 10
The number 10 is a real hero!
First make a 1, and then a 0.

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Play into Kindergarten

Readiness
A Sample Week of Activities

On the following pages, you will find a sample week

from Play into Kindergarten Readiness, including:

• A sample week of daily activities from the “On

the Farm” theme

• The printable included with that week of activities

• Plus “On the Farm” theme vocabulary cards for

display and play!

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 Sample Week of Activities

Play into Kindergarten

Readiness
Monday: Go on a Farm Book Picture Walk Pre-Reading Skills, Vocabulary Building

Materials: A book that is new to your child

Grab a new farm-themed story from the shelf or from the library and go on a picture walk with your preschooler. Start with the first page
and look only at the pictures together, chatting about what you see. Go through the entire book this way. This is a wonderful opportunity for
building vocabulary as well as for introducing children to a reading strategy. Using the pictures is a great way to help us figure out what a
word might be if we are stuck!

Tuesday: Build Farmyard Pens with Popsicle Sticks and Clothespins Fine Motor Skills

Materials: Clothespins and popsicle sticks

Use clothespins and popsicle sticks to build some farmyard pens or structures. Clothespins can pinch two popsicle sticks together, allowing
wonderfully creative “things” to emerge! Using clothespins is a wonderful way to strengthen little hands and build muscles. You can
challenge your child to make a road as wide as his bedroom or to use the clothespins and popsicle sticks to build a tower!

Wednesday: Go on a number hunt Number Recognition, Counting

Materials: None!
Go for a walk in your neighbourhood (or visit a nearby neighbourhood) and go on a number hunt. With your child, look for the numbers 1 to 9.
Try to find them in order on license plates, addresses, or signs. If your child is unclear on the number you are looking for, use a stick to draw
it in some dirt as you are walking.

Thursday: Swat the Balloon Pre-Reading Skills, Syllable Awareness, Letter Names and Sounds

Materials: Balloons, tennis racket or paper towel tube, painter’s tape

Blow up some balloons, then tie a string to each balloon and hang them from the ceiling with painter’s tape. Say a word, and have your
child swat the balloon with each syllable. Your child can use a tennis racket, paper towel tube, or just their hand. The slow movement of the
balloon coming down naturally helps children to stretch out words, hearing each syllable. Try some animal names, such as: cat, rooster, or
alligator. (This same activity can be used to practice letter names and sounds!)

Friday: Match and Count the Clothespins Fine Motor Skills, Colours, One-to-One Correspondence

Materials: Paper cups and clothespins

Colour Animals

Grab some cups and pop the printable Colour Animals into the bottom, one animal per cup. Take some matching markers or paint and
colour the ends of your clothespins. Have your child match the coloured clothespins to the different cups by colour, clipping the clothespins
to the side of the cups. He would match all the pink clothespins to the cup with the pink pig inside, and so on. When done, have him count
the clothespins on each coloured cup. Which colour has the most clothespins? The least? Let your child practice each colour name as well!

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 Printable

Colour Animals

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Duck Duckling

Pig Piglet
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 Cow Calf

Horse Foal
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 Thank you!
I hope the Number Formation Cards and sample week of activities from Play into
Kindergarten Readiness are helpful to you.

Don’t forget, you still have access to your special discounted price if you would like
everything simplified into one 20-minute activity a day! I have done all the work, so
you can rest assured all skills are covered—easily and through play.

Grab Play into Kindergarten Readiness right here:

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xo Sarah