Re: Daily Routine
- From: "Donna Metler" <dmmetler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:48:57 -0500
"Sarah Vaughan" <nannyogg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Beliavsky wrote:I'd also look for trade books which involve math and science concepts. My DD
In addition to the activities others have suggested, you can try
instructing your 4yo in reading and math. Even in an hour per day you
can accomplish a lot. My wife have been doing so with our son, who is
almost four, and I'd estimate he is at the 1st grade level. Math and
reading workbooks are not too expensive.
The risk here (and I am not saying this is what's happening with the
OP's son, because I have no doubt that there are children who really do
enjoy this kind of thing) is that setting out to do this as part of the
day can make it into a chore rather than playtime. There's a real risk
that this can end up in a situation where the child sees reading as a
job that has to be done rather than as something to do for pleasure.
Sure, they learn to decipher words sooner - but they might also pick up
an attitude to reading that might ultimately hinder the amount of
reading they want to do.
Rather than getting workbooks, I'd get books. Story books that your
children are likely to enjoy. Make time to read these together so that
your child learns that reading is something fun. But, as far as
actually learning to read is concerned, I would follow your child's lead
and see whether this is something that interests him or not. My son is
fascinated with letters and what they say, and can read all his letters,
and because he's always pointing out the words in books or other places
it's quite easy for me to be always telling him "That says..." in a way
that's responding to his interests rather than sitting him down and
teaching him. I think he'll almost certainly be reading early - but
that's the way he wants it. If he wasn't interested in knowing what all
those words said, I would stick to reading to him and not push the issue
at all. With math, as well, rather than sitting down with a workbook
I'd work with real-life situations that come up - two socks and two
shoes to go on two feet, three cookies so each of you gets one and we
have one put aside, little things like that. It stays fun and relevant
and doesn't turn into a job to be done.
has discovered the "MathStart" series in our library, which is a series of
short storybooks, each of which introduce a math concept. They're levelled,
with level 1 being largely preschool/kindergarten, both in text length and
math concept, level 2 being early elementary, and level 3 being middle
elementary. The Magic School Bus series, both the books and the DVDs, are
also popular here and often turn into science exploration outside or in the
playroom.
She has picked up a lot of math concepts from these books, which she is then
able to apply (more less, relative size, doubling numbers, simple addition,
sets) in play.
She's a very symbology oriented kid, so a magnetic set with numbers and
symbols has led to my demonstrating how to make math sentences, and, again,
as she learns the concept, she's able to start applying the symbols.
The only thing we're doing at all formally is some pre-writing, trace the
shapes, follow the paths type pages, and that's on her own initiation. She
"writes" all the time where she scribbles and tells me what she's writing,
and when I asked if she wanted to practice writing, she jumped on it, and
asks me if she can write in her writing book. I figure as long as she's
asking for it, it's meeting her needs.
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