So sorry we missed the math Monday post last week. I was recovering from flu mist, apparently. Anyway, we had an easy week of life school, unschooling, whatever you want to call it, since I didn’t feel well.

We read some more living books.

We did some fun activities that I found on Pinterest.

Food shapes math!

I love this printable chart and the girls had great fun!

She has suggested foods for the shapes. We had different crackers and candies that represented different geometry shapes. {I didn’t have any cheese balls so we used M&Ms, work with me here!}

And the best part? Snacks after the page is completed!

I downloaded a fun math pack from The Moffat Girls. Some of it was beneath the girls now that they’re oh so grown up, but they still love the dice games! On this one, they only used one die. Tori won.

Domino addition is another fun game that they could do on their own while I was busy planning our next activity, cleaning up, or working with Alex and Tot School.

The girls so graciously asked me to play with them on this dice game. They needed both dice to play this. They added them together. Tori won again.

The girls continue in Life of Fred and Singapore Math as primary math texts.

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We read through some books about telling time and did some foldables for math notebooking. It was great fun!

Math journaling about telling time!

The girls glued their pages and foldables into their math journals and we reviewed what we’ve done the last couple weeks.

Oreo Math: Mean, Mode, Median, Range

You can get the fun Math notebook here. A plethora of math ideas to have fun!

We learned about averaging. Alex colored and listened.

We stacked Oreos and worked with the numbers of our highest stacks.

We figured out mean, mode, median, and range.

I did a little extra work with Elizabeth later.

It’s harder than it looks.

We began Jazzy Journals for review and they’re fun and will make an awesome gift for Grandma!

We read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and counted letters. Letters on the tree and letters on the ground.

I searched for “coconut tree” and got an outline for the girls to color and cut out.

We used letter stickers. I had them go through and pick a color for each letter of the alphabet and place it on the tree or on the ground to look like the book.

The girls had so much fun choosing the colors for each letter in ABC order.

Later, we worked on lesson 5 of Life of Fred Apples.

The girls were tickled to draw 7 elephants. Fred’s elephants looked funny!

We read many living math books this week and have math journal work based on the books we read. We did some lapbook printables I made with time and measurement. We doing the basics with Tori and Katie and review with Liz on these basic concepts.

We measured our height in ancient Egyptian methods: cubits, spans, palm, and digits.

Katie was quick to point out that everyone is different and the measurements wouldn’t be standard. I love that child. She’s five and got that right away!

We read a book about the Princess and the Pea but it was “mathemagical.” We read a fun art book with math combinations in it. The girls really liked that one – and Dad and I did too!

We use these notebooking resources in our math journaling…and every other subject!

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We did a lot of games and manipulatives this week

but not so much on paper…

Tori and Katie with clock works (heehee)

I found the clock flashcards and foam clocks from Target dollar spot last year sometime. I cannot for the life of me remember where I got the clock cards that Tori has. If you know, please tell me!

Don’t you love the crowns? They were a history project.

I introduced some three-part cards with time references. They were a bit lost but I helped with the reading.

Here is the completed work.

Tori and Katie are learning multiplication and skip counting.

The filled in a “counting by fives” card for their math journals. I helped them do it on the board first and then they copied it.

Our cat, Rubeus, gave Tori moral support.

I got the CUTEST Hello Kitty packs online for free and Katie is completing one of the math pages here.

Alex is loving our new math apps. He’s playing iLiveMath Animals here.

Alex likes to play with tangrams. He’s getting so much better keeping his work on his mat and cleaning up!

He still loves our little piggy bank

Liz had to research to fill in her math foldables. These were review, and she obviously needed it!

We worked on Life of Fred too.

Elizabeth still loves it and reads parts of it to me so we can share a laugh. It’s SO fun!