Tactile Discovery Box 2007 Directors' Choice Award winner! Help children explore their sense of touch and enhance their shape letter and number recognition.

Puppet & Flannelboard Stories for Numbers, Shapes, and Colors Book or eBook Use finger plays, flannelboard stories, and puppets to hold young learners' attention while they learn basic concepts. Stories, directions, and patterns for the puppets and flannelboard pieces are provided along with many activities.

Counting 0 to 31 Bulletin Board This handy teaching aid helps children learn numbers, colors, shapes, and counting. Includes 34 pieces, a 4-page Teacher's Guide, and shiny, protective coating for durability.

Felt Pieces

Early Math Concepts Felt Set These felt pieces help Illustrate early math concepts. Set includes numbers geometric shapes and starfish sand buckets and other beach-themed items. Comes with lesson/activity guide that covers addition subtraction multiplication and more. Felt pieces intact. Ages Pre-K and up.

Beginners Counting Felt Set Ladybugs panda bears puppies - oh my! Practice counting and beginning math skills with this super math set. 132 vivid pieces include: 10 each of 10 adorable figures 2 sets of numbers and symbols and lesson/activity guide.

Counting Books

Counting Books at Amazon.com
Rainbow Fish Books
Ten in the Bed / There Were Ten in the Bed / There Were Ten in a Bed at Amazon.com

10 by Keith Haring (Counting to ten is as easy as uno, deux, drei...)

Roll Over! by various Authors
Ten in the Bed by various Authors

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

A Fair Bear Share (Mathstart) by Stuart J. Murphy (making a pie; regrouping - groups of tens and ones & addition)
Missing Mittens (MathStart) by Stuart J. Murphy (odd and even numbers)

Cow Books using Numbers

Counting 1-10 Books
       
     

Music
Descending Order
My Lesson: Roll Over (There Are Ten In The Bed)

Alice (or Sally) the Camel five humps, four, etc.

The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins

For younger children, have them count how many children are at the table plus the children at the door (by one's).For children a little bit older, look at each page and ask them how many children are there? So there are __ children + __ children = __ children,...

For older children, look at each page and ask them how many children are there? How many cookies are on the plate? So there are 12 cookies and how many children are there? Keep on doing this until all the children have come into the house. So (1.) 12÷2=__ (2.) 12÷4=__ (3.) 12÷ 6=__ (4.) 12÷12=__

Word Problems told to the child or on a handout:
1.) If there were 2 kids and 12 cookies, how many cookies would each child get to eat?
2.) If there were 4 kids and 12 cookies, how many cookies would each child get to eat?
3.) If there were 6 kids and 12 cookies, how many cookies would each child get to eat?
4.) If there were 12 kids and 12 cookies, how many cookies would each child get to eat?
5.) Grandma brought 66 more cookies to your house, with all the kids at your house (12 total) how many cookies would each person get?
Answer: (12x5=60 and 6 left over so 5 1/2 cookies.)

Extension Activities:
For younger children: Count the number of children on each page. Have the child gather dolls or stuffed animals (family members or friends) to be the visitors. Make chocolate chip cookies or pretend cookies using brown construction paper and have the child color black chocolate chips on each cookie (see below note). Have the child make a doorbell sound as the doorbell rings. Have the child divide the cookies (real or pretend) between the visitors. If you don't have real visitors, have the child decide who to give the cookies to and divide the cookies into containers to give to them later.

Note: To make pretend chocolate chip cookies, trace 12+ circles using a 2 1/2 inch cookie or biscuit cutter onto blank index cards. Color them brown and color black chocolate chips. Write some math problems onto index cards.

Cooking: Make chocolate chip cookies. Count the chips as you put them in the batter.

Music & Rhymes
Enchanted Learning - The Ants Go Marching
Enchanted Learning - Baa Baa Black Sheep Rhyme / Song with Pictures and Printout to Color
KiDiddles - Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (lyrics & music)
Five Little Speckled Frogs and Printout to Color
Enchanted Learning - Hickory Dickory Dock
KiDdiddles - Hickory Dickory Dock (lyrics & song) I always use the words "the mouse ran down"
Enchanted Learning - Hot Cross Buns
Enchanted Learning - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Enchanted Learning - Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Men in a Tub and Printout to Color
Enchanted Learning - This Old Man