🟣dot the numbers 🟣⠀
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Adding a hands-on experience and giving your child “something to do” with a number can be so beneficial, especially to those visual and tactile learners. ⠀
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This multi-sensory activity is so easy to set up and there’s so many ways to adapt it based on what supplies you have at home! ⠀ ⠀
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Set Up: ⠀
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🟡 On a piece of paper, write a number three times (we focused on numbers 3-5). Make sure the numbers are a decent size. I had 3 different numbers 3 times each on an 8.5x11 paper and the size was perfect. ⠀
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🟡Lay out @doadotart markers, q-tips, paint, glue and pom poms. ⠀
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🟡On the first number, have your child dot with the dot markers the same number of times as the number itself anywhere on the number (3 dots on the number 3, 4 dots on 4, etc.)⠀
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🟡On the second one of the same number, have your child dot with q-tips. ⠀
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🟡On the third one of that number, dot by gluing that number of pom poms on it. ⠀
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🟡 Continue dotting the three different ways for each number! ⠀
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🟡If you don’t have all these supplies, here’s other ways to dot the numbers: ⠀
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*pom pom dots (pick up a pom pom with a clothespin and dip it in paint to dot) ⠀
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*coloring dots with a marker ⠀
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*dot stickers ⠀
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Extension Ideas⠀
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🟣 Have your child say each number while touching each dot on that number. This is the “something to do” portion that I talked about that is so beneficial for learners. This simple touching and counting can really help deepen the understanding of the number. ⠀
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🟣 If your child is ready to begin addition, use these numbers and try it! It’s a great way to give a built in manipulative right on the paper! Ex: If you ask them what 3+4 is, they can count the three dots on the 3 and the 4 dots on the 4 to help them get to the sum of 7! ⠀
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🟣 These can also help with subtraction! ⠀
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If you like hands-on math you should definitely try this one out at home! I would love to see it when you do😊
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