{"id":353,"date":"2017-02-23T17:18:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=353"},"modified":"2017-03-23T17:20:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T17:20:48","slug":"sorting-and-matching-candy-conversation-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/02\/23\/sorting-and-matching-candy-conversation-hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting and Matching Candy Conversation Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Materials<\/h3>\n<p>Construction Paper in the colors of candy Conversation Hearts<br \/>\nCandy Conversation Hearts<br \/>\nGlue<\/p>\n<h3>Directions<\/h3>\n<p>Cut out one color construction paper heart for each color of candy heart. &nbsp;Glue all hearts onto a larger piece of construction paper. Place about 20 conversation hearts in a small bowl. Invite your child to take one heart out of the bowl at a time and place it on the correct color paper heart. &nbsp;Once all the hearts have been sorted, ask your child to count how many hearts there are on each paper heart. &nbsp;What color heart has the most? &nbsp;What color heart has the least?<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson Extensions:<br \/>\nYoung Toddlers:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Simplify activity by only having two different color hearts in the bowl and two hearts cut out of construction paper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Preschool: &nbsp;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>After sorting the hearts, encourage your child to make addition and subtraction problems with the hearts (i.e. 4 green hearts and 2 pink hearts = 6 hearts)<\/li>\n<li>Create patterns with the colored hearts<\/li>\n<li>Line the hearts up 2 by 2 and practice counting by 2&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Make groups of 10 with candy hearts and practice counting by 10&#8217;s. &nbsp;Can you count to 100 by 10&#8217;s?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Construction Paper in the colors of candy Conversation Hearts Candy Conversation Hearts Glue Directions Cut out one color construction paper heart for each color of candy heart. &nbsp;Glue all hearts onto a larger piece of construction paper. Place about 20 conversation hearts in a small bowl. Invite your child to take one heart out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/02\/23\/sorting-and-matching-candy-conversation-hearts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sorting and Matching Candy Conversation Hearts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354,"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-353","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\/353","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}