Early Math Project

Topics: counting, counting down, time, patterns

​​

Activities To Do Together:

• Write down your child’s nighttime routine. Include the time your child starts, the amount of time each activity takes, and your child’s bedtime. 

• Find all the places a number is written in the book.

• Create a number line from 0 to 10. Practice saying and writing the numbers together. Try writing the numbers from 10 to 0 too!

• Reread the story a few times, see how many new things you spot each time.

• Encourage your child to pick 5 different activities such as bouncing a ball, writing the numbers 1 to 10, or jumping up and down. Ask your child to estimate how many times they can do each activity in one minute. Set a timer for one minute and find out!

​​

Extension Questions: 

1. Can you spot the hamsters that are wearing the orange-striped jerseys numbered 1 to 10? See if you can count all ten on each page!

2. How many times can you find a gorilla in this book?

3. How many hamsters spend the night?

4. How many different activities does the boy at 1 Hoppin Place do during his 10 minutes before bedtime? 

5. Do you think that everything that happened in this book could really happen in ten minutes? Why or why not? 

​​

Vocabulary for Building Math Concepts:  

1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, all, eight, five, four, minutes, more, nine, one, seven, six, ten, three, two

​

Please check out the Book Guide for 10 Minutes till Bedtime for more!

​

Online External Resources for 10 Minutes till Bedtime:

• Math Picture Book Guide from Dreme Stanford

​