Fun with numbers: counting games for Class

The aim is to avoid tedious. Showed many cases, repeating the song count is a fun way how to teach the basics, for example. You can break through physical exercise for children.

The following are some good tips and ideas that may include some games as the basis for your:

Or themes:

Do you have a lesson plan specifically around certain visual aid or activities that count.

ForExample:

Taking the theme of apples. Maybe you could have the children eat slices of apple as a snack during your class. Tell each student that he or she get apple slices have four, count the windows.

If the class is more advanced, you can say, 'OK, we have 48 apple slices completely. There are twelve of us in class. So tell me who can get as many apple slices for each of you? "

Or maybe you could try something less complicatedas if we need ten slices of apple, and every apple is cut into five slices of apples. How many apples do we have apple slices or ten? "And if the group is older, you may ask," How about twenty? "And so on.

This type of counting games for children, in a case like this, Apple could also be used as a method of teaching children to compare color colors - like the others, the colors, the apples are, therefore, what colors the apples are, etc.

ORepeat:

Repetition is very important when learning any skill at all. However, children is the repetition of particular importance for learning numbers, colors, letters, etc. games, activities and stories in which the figures are repeated a good game for counting.

Games and lessons with repetition is also a foundation for children and their successful educational experience for the rest of their lives - a basic model for allenhance learning.

If you like the games count in the classroom, trying to use games to play on a regular basis. Choose games that use it regularly, based on children's response to several games that first introduced.

It 's a fact that more children (or anyone for that matter) Repeat the same information, the more likely they will retain in his memory.

O Rhymes

I believe that rhyming is one ofabsolutely the best way to use students as a game for your count. Just as children learn the alphabet by rote methods of rhyme and / or voice are tools for learning by heart as never before.

For example:

Sing a song about numbers with your students as follows:

Sing:

"One, two, three

Scrape your knee

four, five, six

resolved

seven, eight nine

Punctual

ten, eleven, twelve

for nicheBell! "

You can even hand movements with this kind of counting games for children, children often learn faster if you use the track of hand movements, makes the game more fun!

hand movements also makes the children from their homes for a while '- a little' break from sitting at a desk - which is good for them.

Example of a fun song to include an additional:

This song, "The Bakery" is what I remember as a timePrevious - though I can not even use it in class, must be very emotional and one of many counting games for children:

"Down by the School of bakery

there were nine little donuts with sugar on top,

Along Came (child's name) all alone

(He or she '), red and ran home.

Then, of course, repeat until you are down to zero. This kind of games can be fun, so keep your studentsAttention. It 'very exciting because you sing the name of a child is different each time.

If the class is too large for you to waste the name of every child, without too much time singing classes - turned. Sings half of the students change the name of the song in one day, and so the other half of the class may again be a next time.