To teach a 3 year old
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Topic: To teach a 3 year old
Posted By: busymum
Subject: To teach a 3 year old
Date Posted: 22 March 2007 at 12:45pm
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Hannah and I have been doing a 20-30 minute slot of "school" for the last couple of weeks, most days. It helps give us Hannah and Mummy time (and often Briona joins in if she's not sleeping) and extends her learning. Most of you know I intend to homeschool but what I thought I'd do is update on here what we've been doing because it's not limited to would-be-homeschoolers.
A couple of weeks ago I went and bought her a book ($7) on shapes, we have been doing 2-4 pages per day (she loves it!) on recognising shapes, finding particular shapes in a picture, colouring in, and even tracing. She is not fully comfortable with a pen-hold yet (although Briona has automatically picked it up on her own?!?) so that's something I'm working on. While Hannah is exploring shapes, Briona and I colour in a picture of her colouring-in book (I got about 100 page one for $4 yay!) which is her "school" 
On Tuesday we went grocery shopping and she held and "beeped" the scanner for me for the first time... after that though we went to the Library for our "school" slot. Apparently learning to rhyme (mad dad sad etc) is a good head-start into reading so I went and got some good old Dr Seuss books  for us to read together at home. The girls really enjoyed going there, I think I'm going to make it a fortnightly thing.
Today we looked at ice. I had 4 icecream containers half-full of water set up outside and the girls helped me load a full two trays of ice into them. We explored whether they melted faster if they were left, stirred with a wooden spoon, in cold water or warm water.... I added some water from the (hot) kettle into one of the containers and taught her about hot and cold making warm. Sometime in the near future I'll be introducing colours. We have two ice trays so one of them just has regular water/ice in it but in the other one I have put coloured water: some blue and some yellow. I'm sure you can figure out what we're going to do with them I think it will actually be a good amuser tool for pre-dinner tonight 
More to come, but feel free to add your own! -------------  |
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 22 March 2007 at 12:57pm
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As Andrew is at preschool he has already learnt so much. He can count to 10 and knows the alphabet, he know knows his colours and shapes and can recognise his name. So we are moving him onto learning numbers by how many are in a group instead of just counting the numbers. We have his "numbers" poster up in the hall so he can see it all the time and lst night I put his trains into groups (always good to do it with things that they like) and he was counting up how many was in a group. Andrew also "helps" DH when he makes dinner. He stands on his chair and has his own pot that he cooks with. Don't know how much helping is done but he is learning while watching. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 22 March 2007 at 1:00pm
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Wow I'm really impressed, it sounds like your girls are having a great time learning. You have some really good ideas there, I may just steal some.
I may just have to get of my backside and start being a little more pro active with Abigail. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 22 March 2007 at 2:36pm
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he he, it's fun doing that stuff aye. I loved making the goop for the girls.. its great for exploring textures because it becomes hard when you squeeze it in your hands then once you let hand open it runs out hand again.
Another neat way to learn the colours is to put a few drops in the bath. The girls like to pick their colours, sometimes they take turns other times they both choose a colour and see what colour it makes. they are pretty good now with knowing which colours they need if they want green or orange or purple.. (or brown. ) collecting different size boxes, or different colour lids is a good way too to learn colours and seriation.. ie biggest to smallest, putting them into groups at first by colours, and then as they learn more they can do it by two denominations.. ie big red ones, and small red ones, big blue ones, etc. Hey another thing your balcony would be great for Is filling ballons with different things and seeing which is heaviest - by dropping them. two at a time off the balcony onto the grass area.. teaching her heavier and lighter by which falls the quickest. one thing i have found great is the leapfrog phonics fridge magnets - i got them for paris, and she uses them, but ayja loves them, she pick up letters now and goes D, daddy, A for ayja, P for paris M for mummy, that's about all she knows as yet, but we are moving on to n for nana and B for bailey at the moment. they were a little pricey but well worth it i think. soundsl ike you gys are having heaps of fun.it's been a while since i took the girls to the library, think that's something we need to do again soon. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 22 March 2007 at 3:34pm
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I love those alphabet magenets from leapfrog, my friend has them and she said she was going to get them for Andrew for his birthday - so hoepfully she does. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 22 March 2007 at 3:56pm
wow - we do nothing here to teach the kids...mine will be the dunces at school i guess... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 22 March 2007 at 8:07pm
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am sure you do in ways that you probably dont even realise.
another thing i have done - out of sheer necessity cos they always fought and got things mixed up, is to label their chairs, and their drink bottles - their chairs have the full name on it, and their drink bottles - (usually just the plastic throw away sippers) i stick a P or an A on them.. paris already knew her name.. but now ayja will pick it up and check to make sure it has her letter on it before she drinks from it. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 22 March 2007 at 10:09pm
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Ooo this is a fun thread! I forgot about your girls having coloured baths Janine, I still haven't done that with my girls. And Becks, if you want to there are some really good puzzles out there with numbers/letters, which is a great way to learn because the kids get to touch. I saw some at Bright Sparks store around the corner from Michael Hill, last month. I think the Warehouse has the letters one too. ------------- |
Posted By: Glow
Date Posted: 23 March 2007 at 7:32am
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I get the coloured bath fizzes or bath graffiti to make the bath different colours. I find food colouring stains a wee bit.
Brae and i visit the library once a week. He loves the doctor seus books, hairy mcleary, or books by margaret mahy. I found some really great maths books at the book store. 4 books in a set, sizes and shapes, numbers, measuring and counting. QED start maths its called. Most of it is a bit beyond Brae at the mo, but we'll get there. He loves reading time. Thats what learning is all about. ------------- Mummy of Two Boys B: 2004 K: 2007 |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 23 March 2007 at 11:01am
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I got the letter puzzle from the warehouse when it first opened (the new one). I have told a few people (family) that if they want to get Andrew anything for his birthday to get puzzles. We (well DH does) read to Andrew every night before he goes to bed, in doing this he can now recite the Hungry Caterpiller book to you word for word (that book has now been hidden ) and he gets to choose the book he gets read to him as well. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 23 March 2007 at 1:22pm
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Becks that's why I love the library so much! I'm so not into reading one particular favourite book (whichever one it is at the time) 100 times in a single week!! ------------- |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 23 March 2007 at 8:10pm
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he he, yeah paris memerized the hungry caterpillar too. the cute thing is she reads it to ayja. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 24 March 2007 at 2:22pm
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Kiya memorised Hairy Maclary! So cute! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 24 March 2007 at 7:58pm
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aw felt so proud of paris today, we were playing her bugs life computer game, (which is $10 from the warehouse and pretty good for 3 yr olds.. not too hard and learn heaps about bugs!) and we got to the start part, and she just started typing in her name. She got the P, then the A, then couldn't find the R but thought the B looked similar until i showed her where the r was. then went to go straight for the S.. (had to remindher there's an I in there.. ) it really took me by surprise. just had to share that.. was really neat. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 24 March 2007 at 9:08pm
Oh yay for Paris! 
Hannah knows "H" for Hannah, "B" for Briona, then you ask her what is for Mummy and she says "T"... oh yea - Teresa. Caught me offguard the first time, I couldn't get how she got the mmmm sound so wrong!  She was spelling my name (Teresa) out the other day with her uncle/my brother/our boarder, he instructed all the letters and she typed them on the computer. Then she got to the end and thought an "h" on the end would make it look better - obviously to make it look a bit like her name lol ------------- |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 25 March 2007 at 8:20pm
| Thomas the tank engine is FANATSIC for teaching little boys especially colours and numbers- "thomas is blue no. 1 engine" |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 26 March 2007 at 9:14am
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Liz I have a Thomas fanatic here, he knows all the engines names, colours, and getting the numbers sorted now. Andrew has a Thomas computer game that he plays with DH which is helping him more. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |