{"id":1669,"date":"2018-01-12T20:16:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2018-01-12T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:16:06","slug":"mitten-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/01\/12\/mitten-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitten Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Craft foam mittens (you can make these yourself or purchase pre-cut mittens)<br \/>\nSnowflake stickers or counters<br \/>\nPermanent marker<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Using a permanent marker, write a numeral 1 or 2 on the bottom of several mittens. Provide stickers or counters (ex. buttons) and invite your toddler to place 1 sticker or counter on the mittens that have the numeral 1 written at the bottom and two stickers or counters on the mittens that have the numeral 2 written at the bottom. &nbsp;Continue to reinforce numeral 1 and numeral 2 with your toddler. &nbsp;Look for those numerals around the house.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lesson Extension for Preshoolers<\/b><br \/>\nUsing a permanent marker, write a numeral 1-10 on the bottom of each mitten. &nbsp;Invite your preschooler to place the correct number of stickers to match the numeral on each mitten. &nbsp;Once each mitten has the correct number of stickers, ask your child to arrange the mitterns in correct numerical order.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Similar games can be made by printing an upper case letter on one mitten and it&#8217;s corresponding lower case letter on another mitten. &nbsp;Invite your preschooler to match upper case and lower case letters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Craft foam mittens (you can make these yourself or purchase pre-cut mittens) Snowflake stickers or counters Permanent marker Directions Using a permanent marker, write a numeral 1 or 2 on the bottom of several mittens. Provide stickers or counters (ex. buttons) and invite your toddler to place 1 sticker or counter on the mittens &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/01\/12\/mitten-math\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mitten Math&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":1670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}