Themes & Concepts
Grab some sidewalk chalk and a glass of lemonade while you spend a sunny day filling your driveway and sidewalks up with math activities.
Explore math questions based on this special prayer.
Choose a board game or card game to play and explore how that game uses math and then journal about the experience.
Make lemonade and set up a lemonade stand, exploring measurement, volume, counting money, and being a good steward of earned money.
Lucky Child chooses a summer math pen pal and invites them to answer their written math questions and send a letter back with math questions for them to answer.
Use water balloons to explore math.
Make homemade playdough and use it to explore measuring, geometry, and fractions.
Choose an area park to visit and use the equipment and space to explore math-related activities.
Visit a local library to read and journal about math-related books. Each booklet includes an extra math-related activity.
Choose a Catholic church to visit and explore ideas like pattern, order, and symmetry in a sacred space.
Make math fun this summer!
Your Lucky Child should walk away each week feeling happy and looking forward to next week’s special time with their Math Mentor.
- Go to an area park and swing through your multiplication facts
- Throw a water balloon up in the air and recite as many multiples of 11 as possible
- Create a coordinate grid on your driveway and use rocks to mark the ordered pairs
- Make playdough and explore fractions, perimeter, and area