Sidewalk Chalk numbers

I was feeling a bit stuck in what we were doing.  So a God-inspired idea came to me to use sidewalk chalk on the deck.  I wrote the numbers 1 through 10 on our deck, gave the kids different items to use as counters (checker pieces, bottle tops, felt stars, and the ever famous cars), and sent them to count away.  The kids really enjoyed it, with the exception of the heat, and G even look out the window whenever the Leap Frog music CD played songs with counting or numbers in them to look at our deck numbers. 

K and G working together

G working on her own

We also attempted to do some basic addition, subtraction with K like we've done with the cars and numbers I addressed in this post.  K was not really into going from number to number because he does not like the heat at all.  So I stood on the numbers giving him addition word problems, and I had him tell me what number I needed to move to.  He watched me out of the window.  That way I did all the sweating ;).