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This post has been co-written with Ben Wolfson, a full-time educator and assistant principal in the USA.
Whether we like it or not, our students are going to grow up in a world where they will need to be global citizens; able to understand different viewpoints and traditions as part of being able to make trades, deals and compromises with their colleagues all over the world. This work needs to start as early as possible with exposure to different cultures and ideas right there in your kindergarten classroom, which makes these Chinese New Year Count and Color Worksheets a great way to celebrate the lunar new year on the other side of the world.
Using Counting Worksheets For Kindergarten
Your kindergarten students have to leave your classroom being able to accurately count a group of objects. This skill is also known as one to one correspondence, and it’s the strategy where a student will touch an object and say the correct counting word in order. This Chinese New Year count and color packet is a great way to combine cultural appreciation with math skills, as students will count sets of different objects that are typically associated with the Chinese New Year such as lanterns and dragons. You can use these Chinese New Year games for kids as a way to discuss what the objects are, how they are used in Chinese New Year celebrations and how they compare and contrast to our own celebrations.
Preparing Chinese New Year Count and Color Worksheets
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Extension Kindergarten Activities for Chinese New Year
As your students practice, they’ll quickly master these counting worksheets for kindergarten. This is helped by the self-checking nature of the cards, where students can mark the correct answer and then look on the back to make sure they’ve got it right. To extend their learning, try some of these activities:
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Remove the answers – the first challenge for these Chinese New Year count and color is to remove the 3 options from the bottom of each card. This removes the possibility of students just guessing each answer and forces them to practice their number formation skills at the same time. If you print off spare copies, you could cut out each Chinese New Year item and create your own counting worksheets for kindergarten using the same concepts and pictures.
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Error analysis – when you’re teaching math to younger grades, error analysis is a great way to show students common mistakes that they’re making without making them feel like you’re criticizing their performance. For these Chinese New Year activities for kindergarten, simply give them one of the pages where you’ve completed the worksheet already with some of the answers being incorrect. Your students then need to find the ones that are correct, and fix the ones that are wrong.
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Create comparative sentences – for those students who show early mastery of one to one correspondence counting, you can move them towards comparative number sentences. To do this, give them different pieces of the Chinese New Year count and color worksheet and ask them to complete sentences with the words “more” or “less”. For example, “there are ____ lanterns than fireworks”. After a few rounds led by you, you can can challenge them to create their own comparative sentences.
Get More Chinese New Year Math Activities:
This pack contains 5 fun math centers that you can use in your classroom to celebrate Chinese New Year!
1. 2D shape mats – print and laminate to use with playdough or for a classroom display. 10 common 2D shapes included (circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, star, octagon, pentagon, hexagon and trapezoid).
2. Counting clip cards – print, laminate and cut into individual cards. Students will count the number of coins in the envelope from 1-20 and mark their answer using a clothespin.
3. Ten frame mats – print, laminate and cut apart the ten frame cards. Students will pick a card and show the number on the blank ten frame mat. You can use red pom poms, balls of playdough for ‘oranges’, coins or other manipulatives.
4. Find, count & graph – print and laminate the sheets you need. There is one for graphing to 5 and one for graphing to 10. Students can mark on the graph as they are counting with a dry-erase marker. Answer provided.
5. Number formation cards – print, laminate and cut apart. Practice number tracing 1-20 with dry erase markers, combine with a sensory writing tray, use the cards for number ordering, sorting odd and even, etc.
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