recipe for fun – Early Math Counts https://earlymathcounts.org Laying the foundation for a lifetime of achievement Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:50:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 183791774 Recipes for Fun https://earlymathcounts.org/recipes-for-fun/ https://earlymathcounts.org/recipes-for-fun/#respond Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:23:08 +0000 http://www.mathathome.org/blog1/?p=2305 Sometimes, it is fun to take a concept – RECIPES – and show children that there are many ways of thinking about it.

If a recipe is a list of ingredients with directions for putting them together so they turn into something,  then there a whole lot of things we can make recipes for.

A Recipe for Fun

Ingredients

1 Teacher

5 Children

5 Rubber Balls

2 Laundry Baskets

Have the children set up the laundry baskets on opposite ends of the large group rug.  Bounce the 3 rubber balls into the center of the rug.  Encourage the children to bounce, throw, and play. Observe how they make up their own games with the balls and baskets.

Good Friends Recipe

 Ingredients

All the Children in this Room

Nice words

Smiles

Kindness

Lots of Playing

Mix together all day long and friendship will result.

A Recipe for a Good Day

Ingredients

Not too hot and not too cold weather

A little bit of sunshine

Good friends all around

A morning snack

An afternoon nap

A delicious lunch

Lots of time outdoors

Play, play, play

A teacher who loves us

Books, books, and more books

Make sure you check off each of the ingredients above to create the perfect day!

 

 

 

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