Hello Parents! 🧤
The word digit comes from the Latin word for finger. 🖐️
That’s why we call the numbers 0 to 9 digits. Your kid’s first calculator? Ten little fingers.
Warm up with this short counting video 🔢. Then the numbers get all mixed up, and a slow tortoise makes saying goodbye last forever.
Worksheet of the Week ✏️
The numbers are in a jumble! Your kid looks through them, finds the number asked for and circles it.
It’s a hide-and-seek game for numbers. Kids practice number recognition, focus and careful looking.
Story Time 📖
See You Later, Alligator (Rhyme Time Animals)
Tortoise has his bags packed for a big adventure. There’s one small problem. He has to say goodbye to every friend first. Every. Single. One. 🐢
The rhymes are silly and the pictures are bright. By the third timid mouse, you might wonder if Tortoise wants to leave at all.
Anyone who has tried to leave a playdate knows this feeling.
Trivia 🤔
I’m a number. Turn me upside down, and I become 3 bigger. What number am I? 🙃
(keep scrolling to find out)
Burn Some Energy 🏃
Remember those digits from the top? Time to put them to work.
This Pinkfong dance-along mixes finger plays with a number song. Wiggle, count, dance, repeat. 🎶
Bonus challenge: Number Freeze 🧊
Pause the song and shout a number from 1 to 10. Kids freeze and hold up that many fingers. Slowest finger-counter does 3 frog jumps. 🐸
Word of the Week 💭
Scramble means to mix things up so they are out of order.
Example: “My baby brother scrambled all my puzzle pieces!” 🧩
Challenge: Put 5 toys in a row. Close your eyes while a grown-up scrambles them. Can you put them back in the right order?
Your Corner 🌸
Move: 10-minute low impact cardio from Fitness Blender. No jumping, so the napper stays asleep. 😴
Stretch: 10-minute yoga for beginners with Yoga With Adriene. For the back that bent over the laundry basket 40 times.
Brain Gym 🧠
Tortoise and 5 friends meet to say goodbye. Every animal hugs every other animal once. How many hugs in total? 🐢
Answer 🤔
6! Flip it upside down and it becomes 9
One last thing…✨
Circling a 7 counts. Holding up 4 fingers mid-dance counts. Counting goodbyes to a row of stuffed animals counts.
Small moments add up. (Sorry. We had to.) 💛
Talk soon,
The Worksheet Club Team
