1 - The Question Game
2 - The Walking Game
The Walking Game
Suggested Age
• Pre-Kindergarten
• Kindergarten
• Standard I
• Standard II
Educational Goals
• To encourage children to count
• To encourage children to estimate measurements
Directions
1. Stand at one end of a room, with your child standing at the other end, facing you. Explain to her that you will ask her to move forwards and backwards, and that she should count out loud the number of steps she takes.
2. Say - "Take four steps forward.” Count to four with your child as he or she walks forward.
3. Say - "Take three steps backwards.”
For younger children, count to three – 1, 2, 3 – as your child walks backwards.
For older children, count backwards from three – 3, 2, 1 – as your child walks backwards.
4. Next, have your child tell you how many steps to take. Remind him or her to tell you to walk either forward or backward. Count the steps together as you take them.
5. Take turns telling each other how many steps to take until you meet.
6. Play the game again. This time, tell each other to take long or short steps. Discuss the difference between short and long.
Additional Activities
• Have your child count how many steps he or she takes as he or she goes from room to room. Have your child take both short and long steps.
• Ask your child to guess how many steps he or she needs to get from one point in the room to another. Then ask your child to count how many steps it actually takes. Help your child count if necessary. Together, compare the estimation with the actual number.
• Instead of walking forward and backward, have your child jump, leap, crawl, dance, etc.
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