Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Counting Activity: Rolling Dice

We're covering numbers and  counting in our curriculum, as you already know.  I found these really cool dry erase dice at Dollar Tree-- for one dollar each- to use with the boys. I thought I'd share our activity of rolling dice. 
Because we're on number 1, I put one on all of the sides and let them roll it. When they get to 2, it'll say 1 & 2. And when we get to numbers like 16, it'll have two 16s & four random numbers that are less than 16.  
The red die has the actual number, the yellow one has dots. Kid A has the number block when he rolls Kid B has to find that amount of dots on his block. Then Kid B rolls and Kid A has to count the dots and find the corresponding number on his block.  Then they switch blocks: Kid A has the dots & Kid B has the number. Kid A will roll, & Kid B has to count the dots & find the number on his die. Then kid B rolls and Kid A has to find that amount of dots on his die.  I called this a "round"; we did three rounds.
My 3-year-old really liked the game and completely understood the rules. 
My 2-year-old enjoyed the game too.  Aside from erasing the side facing up every time he rolled, he did a pretty great job of following the rules too!  
As you see I tried to make a "circle" for them to roll the dice in (using a belt, how pathetic!), but that just distracted them.  They did better just sitting and rolling on the open floor 

The only downfall of this activity was the fact that I had to keep putting the dots and numbers back on them-- Thanks, Azariah!  And that's probably going to get a bit tedious when we get to bigger numbers, but HOPEFULLY, by then I'll have him convinced not to erase my hard work every roll. Other than that. it was really a fun activity, and I even got a few turns.  We will be doing this weekly, for sure. 

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