Circle Day

Materials

• Round parachute
• Kiddie pools
• Circular toys, such as bubbles, hula hoops, Frisbees, and assorted balls

Instructions

1. Send a note home to parents explaining that their children will be learning about circles. Ask the parents to let their children bring in balls, hula hoops, and other toys that are circles, making sure their names are on them. It would be helpful to have parents volunteer to help with some of these activities. Someone should be supervising the water play at all times.
2. Following are some ideas you can try:
   • Play parachute games.
   • Blow bubbles.
   • Have water play or sand play in kiddie pools.
   • Play “Ring Around the Rosie,” Duck Duck Goose,” and “Here We Go “Round the Mulberry Bush.”
   • Teach the children how to throw Frisbees.

More to do

• Art: Make potato prints with tempera paint.
• More Art: Put a little tempera paint in with the bubbles and encourage the children to blow bubbles and let them pop onto a light-colored piece ofconstruction paper.
• Snack: Serve round sandwiches, cookies, crackers and cheese, and other snacks that have been cut with a cookie cutter.

Instructions

1. Divide several cardboard circles into six equal sections. On each circle, draw
black dots, from one dot to six dots.
2. Draw matching black dots on clothespins.
3. Give two, three, or more children cardboard circles. Demonstrate how to
attach the proper clothespin with the matching section in the circle.
Note: Careful supervision is needed so children can learn to manipulate the
clothespins without pinching their fingers.
More to do
More Math: To enforce number identification, use numerals instead of dots.