{"id":3508,"date":"2019-04-08T04:12:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T04:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2019-04-08T20:39:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:39:56","slug":"swat-number-recognition-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/04\/08\/swat-number-recognition-game\/","title":{"rendered":"SWAT\u2014Number Recognition Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><br>Large piece of white paper<br>Paper cup<br>Black marker<br>Small stickers (optional)<br>Fly swatter<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/SI-Manufacturing-Giant-Foam-Dice\/dp\/B0042SQX3E\/ref=sr_1_3?crid=QUKKVNKVOIYY&amp;keywords=large+foam+dice&amp;qid=1554696687&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=Larage+Foam+D%2Caps%2C157&amp;sr=8-3\">Oversized foam die<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Directions:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Draw the numbers 1 through 6 randomly on the paper using the black marker. Make the numbers about 3 inches high. Use the paper cup to trace a circle around each number. Place the correct number of stickers on the circle outline for each number so your child can count them if she\u2019s having trouble identifying the numbers.\u00a0 <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Show your child how to drop the die between her legs (while sitting on the floor). Have her count how many dots are showing on the top of the die.\u00a0 Look for that number symbol on the sheet. When she finds it, let her swat it with the fly swatter. We try to swat the number the right number of times\u2014i.e., if her number is 3, she swats it three times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/04\/SWAT-Ellie-1-584x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/04\/SWAT-Ellie-1-584x1024.jpeg 584w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/04\/SWAT-Ellie-1-171x300.jpeg 171w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/04\/SWAT-Ellie-1-768x1346.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2019\/04\/SWAT-Ellie-1.jpeg 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Large piece of white paperPaper cupBlack markerSmall stickers (optional)Fly swatterOversized foam die Directions:\u00a0\u00a0Draw the numbers 1 through 6 randomly on the paper using the black marker. Make the numbers about 3 inches high. Use the paper cup to trace a circle around each number. Place the correct number of stickers on the circle outline &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2019\/04\/08\/swat-number-recognition-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SWAT\u2014Number Recognition Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":3514,"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-3508","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\/3508","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=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3525,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}