Go Go JiJi School to Home Connections - ST Math
Go Go JiJi School to Home Connections
Objective: Getting to Know JiJi
Welcome! We would like to introduce JiJi the penguin, a new friend who will be helping your child
learn math. JiJi is a penguin with places to go! Your child will help JiJi move along by completing fun and educational games on the computer.
We will be sending home activities for each new math topic the children are learning. Look at the card and vocabulary words below for the first activity you can use together: a song about JiJi the penguin!
Go Go JiJi
At school we read a book and sang a song about our new friend JiJi. Here is another JiJi song called Go Go JiJi. You and your child can sing it together!
Tune: Fr?re Jacques/Are You Sleeping/Martinillo
Go go JiJi, go go JiJi, move along, move along. How can we help JiJi, how can we help JiJi, move along, move along.
Math Words: y Penguin, JiJi
Copyright ? 2016 MIND Research Institute. All rights reserved.
ST Math TK: v.13
Spaghetti Shapes School to Home Connections
Objective: Shape Features
We are now exploring shapes with JiJi. Your child will practice looking closely at shapes to see similarities and differences. Your child will also learn basic shape names. You can help your child practice this skill at home.
Spaghetti Shapes
y Cut pieces of uncooked spaghetti (or any straight, stick-like items such as straws or skewers, with sharp parts removed) into several 2" and 3" pieces (for straight sides).
y Have your child use the 2" and 3" pieces of spaghetti (or a substitute) to make a square, triangle, and rectangle.
y Next, ask your child to make circles and ovals with a piece of cooked spaghetti, yarn or string.
y Discuss the differences and similarities among all the shapes. Squares, rectangles and triangles have straight lines. Circles and ovals have curved lines.
Extension: y If your child can confidently make shapes out of spaghetti, next provide paper and pencil or crayons, and ask your child to draw each shape. Encourage him/her to draw the shapes in various sizes.
Math Words: y Shape, same, different, circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval
Copyright ? 2016 MIND Research Institute. All rights reserved.
ST Math TK: v.13
Copycat Patterns School to Home Connections
Objective: Intro to Patterns
We are now exploring AB patterns with JiJi. Examples of AB patterns include "red, green, red, green, red, green" or "small plate, large plate, small plate, large plate." Your child will practice reading patterns, making patterns, and completing patterns. You can help your child practice these skills at home.
Copycat Patterns
y Gather 6-12 each of household items such as spoons, forks, buttons, paperclips, or bottle caps to be arranged in a pattern.
y Line up the items to make a pattern for your child such as button, bottle cap, button, bottle cap.
y Help your child "read" the pattern by pointing to and naming each item. y Encourage your child to copy the pattern that you created. y Ask your child to make a different AB pattern for you to copy.
Extension: Once your child is comfortable copying and making AB patterns, have him or her determine what comes next in a pattern. In other words, your child will try to extend an existing AB pattern created by you. Encourage your child to create different types of AB patterns using features of items such as size, color and orientation.
Math Words: y Pattern, copy, same
Copyright ? 2016 MIND Research Institute. All rights reserved.
ST Math TK: v.13
Cereal Sort School to Home Connections
Objective: Grid, Sorting and Classifying
We are learning about sorting and classifying with JiJi. Your child will practice looking for objects that share a specific quality and grouping them together. We will practice sorting by shape, color, and size. You can help your child practice this skill at home.
Cereal Sort
y Gather colored cereal, fruit snacks, or candies such as M&M's or Skittles. You may also substitute food items with other colorful things, such as buttons, marbles, blocks or paper clips.
y Give your child a small pile of any of the items above, and help him/her sort it by color - red in one pile, green in another, and so on.
y Find more objects in your house to sort into groups by color, such as socks, dishes, or shoes.
y Next, sort by size, perhaps small socks and large socks, or small, medium and large plates.
Extension: Try sorting by other qualities. Ask your child to sort spoons into metal and plastic spoons or cups into tall cups and short cups. Discuss how items are the same/different.
Math Words: y Quality, same, different, sort, group
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ST Math TK: v.13
Counting Jar School to Home Connections
Objective: Number Sense to 5
We are now exploring numbers 0-5 with JiJi. Your child will practice recognizing the numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and also learn that the number 0 means zero objects, 1 means one object, and so on. You can help your child practice this skill at home.
Counting Jar
y Let your child assist you in collecting a variety of materials for hands-on counting. Small items like stones, old keys, plastic bottle caps, and buttons all work well.
y Save the items in a container, such as a basket, jar, or bag. y Allow your child to remove the items from the container, then arrange and
count them. y Help your child compare amounts. For example, are there more bottle caps
than keys? How can you tell?
Extension: Once your child is comfortable counting small amounts, make numeral cards by writing 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 on index cards. Add these cards to the counting jar, so your child can practice matching the correct numeral to the set of objects.
Math Words: y One, two, three, four, five, count, amount, more, less
Copyright ? 2016 MIND Research Institute. All rights reserved.
ST Math TK: v.13
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