First Grade Activities for Home
- Divide a deck of cards evenly between players. Each player flips over a card, the player with the highest card wins the cards. Continue until one player has all cards in the deck.
- Put different items into groups and talk about which group has more or less items using the terms greater than and less than.
- Roll dice and create numbers. Say what is 10 more or 10 less than that number.
- Roll single digit numbers and add them together.
- Roll 2-digit or 3-digit numbers and add them together.
- Give your student an addition or subtraction number sentence and ask them to make up a story problem to go with the number sentence.
- Keep track of your child's growth each month by measuring his/her height using standard and non-standard units of measurement.
- Show your child the time on an analog clock and have them write what the time would look like on a digital clock.
- Use toothpicks or popsicle sticks to show tally marks.
- Go on a shape hunt outside, ask your student to name the shapes of doors, windows, bicycle wheels, etc.
- Ask your student to identify the shapes of various road signs while traveling in the car.
- Build with blocks. Discuss what shapes were used to create the structure.
Summer Math Packet
