{"id":2067,"date":"2018-03-19T03:16:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T03:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2018-03-23T03:47:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T03:47:14","slug":"counting-and-stacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/03\/19\/counting-and-stacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting and Stacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2071 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/03\/pool-noodles-on-a-numberline-1-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/03\/pool-noodles-on-a-numberline-1-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/03\/pool-noodles-on-a-numberline-1-768x954.jpg 768w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/03\/pool-noodles-on-a-numberline-1-825x1024.jpg 825w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2018\/03\/pool-noodles-on-a-numberline-1.jpg 1969w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Materials<br \/>\n<\/b>Styrofoam pool noodle, cut in 1 inch slices (from the Dollar Store)<br \/>\nLarge number line or number cards from 1-6<br \/>\nOne die<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<br \/>\n<\/b>Using a shart knife, cut a styrofoam pool noodle into 1 inch slices. Lay the number line or number cards in front of your child. Go over the numerals together. Invite your child to roll the die, count the dots on the die, and then find the matching numeral. Have him make a tower with the correct number of styrofoam pool noodles on the matching numeral. Continue playing until all the numerals have been covered.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For preschool and kindergarten age children, use two or even three dice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Styrofoam pool noodle, cut in 1 inch slices (from the Dollar Store) Large number line or number cards from 1-6 One die Directions Using a shart knife, cut a styrofoam pool noodle into 1 inch slices. Lay the number line or number cards in front of your child. Go over the numerals together. Invite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/03\/19\/counting-and-stacking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Counting and Stacking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":2068,"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-2067","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\/2067","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=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}