Fun Butterfly Fact:
Butterflies rely on external heat sources to regulate their body temperature. When you see them basking in the sunlight - they're warming up. Encourage your students to warm up for math today with a quick place value game using the new butterfly cards in the Math Kit!
Butterfly Ten Math Game
- butterflies have special scales on their wings that help them absorb sunlight and convert it into energy - tell students they will collect ten of these scales on their butterfly before lift off and flight (scoring a ten block for the center of their card)
- students roll a 1-3 dice and add the matching number of blocks or counters to a wing on their card
- they keep rolling and adding cubes until they reach 10
- stop them periodically and ask them to tell you how many they have so far and how many more they need to make ten
- when ten cubes have been collected, they trade for a ten
- extension idea: keep playing to build a 50 or 100 (switch to a 6 sided dice)
To further your children's learning in place value - have them:
- count objects in groups of tens and ones (take a scoop of counters or buttons and sort them into tens with the remainder being ones - find the total)
- match numerals to groups of objects (use the number cards from the math kit to label a set made from place value blocks)
- engage in more fun printable card games and worksheets