Early Math Project

Will Omu have enough stew to eat for dinner?    

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Math Connections: 

      Patterns                Spatial Relationships

      Size                      Cause and effect

      Comparisons

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Activities To Do Together:

• Talk with your child about patterns that happen in everyday life. Can you and your child find patterns that happen around you?

• Encourage your child to find the pattern(s) that happen in the story.

• With your child, go back through the story and write down Omu’s guests in order.

• Explore cause and effect with your child. Remember, this is when one event makes another event occur. 

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Extension Questions:

1. How many people did Omu feed throughout the day? 

2. Why does Omu run out of thick red stew before dinner?

3. How far do you think the smell of Omu’s thick red stew traveled? Why do you think that?

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Vocabulary for Building Math Concepts:

big, down, empty, in, inside, most, on, out, second, small, top

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Please check out the Book Guide for Thank you, Omu! for more!

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Online External Resources for Thank you, Omu!:

• Activity about Patterns for Infants and Toddlers

• Teaching Patterns to Preschoolers

• Exploring Everyday Patterns