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School Ideas for almost 3yo
Hello all...
DH started back to Uni today. I am also doing a short business course for the next 5 weeks. With both DH and I back at school, DD is really excited by the idea of school. On the way home from taking DH to the train, the idea of DD having school at home. DD will be 3 in June. I will be her teacher. I want to introduce her to the idea of school, while making it fun to learn. The areas I thought we would cover is letters, numbers, colors and animals, to start off with. I will be making some worksheets, as well as downloading some off the net. She doesn't know how to write yet, but I thought I would let her have a scribble and try to make the letters and numbers. For colors and animals, I thought I could do some coloring pages. If this goes well, it would lean us more heavily towards homeschooling (which I really want to do). Anyone have ideas about what else to cover or how to cover these subjects? Books and website recommends would also be very appreciated. -- Daye Momma to Jayan and Leopold See Jayan and Leo: http://www.aloofhosting.com/jayleo/ |
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School Ideas for almost 3yo
"Daye" wrote in message
... Hello all... DH started back to Uni today. I am also doing a short business course for the next 5 weeks. With both DH and I back at school, DD is really excited by the idea of school. On the way home from taking DH to the train, the idea of DD having school at home. DD will be 3 in June. I will be her teacher. I want to introduce her to the idea of school, while making it fun to learn. The areas I thought we would cover is letters, numbers, colors and animals, to start off with. I will be making some worksheets, as well as downloading some off the net. She doesn't know how to write yet, but I thought I would let her have a scribble and try to make the letters and numbers. For colors and animals, I thought I could do some coloring pages. If this goes well, it would lean us more heavily towards homeschooling (which I really want to do). Anyone have ideas about what else to cover or how to cover these subjects? Books and website recommends would also be very appreciated. -- Daye Momma to Jayan and Leopold See Jayan and Leo: http://www.aloofhosting.com/jayleo/ She might be a bit young, yet, as there is the requisite hand to eye coordination for using a mouse, but when she's another 6 months or so, you could have her try the first three episode of Headsprout Reading Basics (http://www.headsprout.com -- first three episodes are free, so you can see if it even works). There's also a free mouse-training episode that you can do first, if you're not sure of her ability to use one, and maybe do it anyway, just for fun. For the record, we have had one child who, at age 2-1/2, completed all of Reading Basics. Her mother said she was reluctant to do the last episode, and actually cried because she didn't want it to be over (we had not yet released the next phase, "Reading Independence"). Yeah, I have sort of a vested interest -- I'm one of the programmeers at Headsprout. I took the job just because it was such a wholesome mission -- teaching kids to read -- instead of the usual stuff I was doing in the graphics industry, which, a good deal of the time, consists of deliberately misleading people (y'know, advertising stuff). I've seen this program work for kids all over the world (we track all the learner interactions so we can see who, if anybody, is having problems, so we can try to figure out why and fix it). -- "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numbers and those who don't." ----------------------------- Byron "Barn" Canfield http://www.headsprout.com "Where kids learn to read." |
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"Daye" wrote in message ... [] Anyone have ideas about what else to cover or how to cover these subjects? Books and website recommends would also be very appreciated. I recommend _Before Five in a Row_ for ideas about activities for children that age. See: http://www.fiveinarow.com/before/ (The name means it is before the "five in a row" program for older children, using a similar format. The parent reads a picture book to the child and does five days in a row of activities related to that story before going on to the next one. The books are classics of the genre.) Jayne |
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:41:07 EST, Daye wrote:
The areas I thought we would cover is letters, numbers, colors and animals, to start off with. I will be making some worksheets, as well as downloading some off the net. She doesn't know how to write yet, but I thought I would let her have a scribble and try to make the letters and numbers. This was what I used to do with my oldest boy when he was little. I would make a letter on a pad of paper and have him copy it. The first word I taught him to write was him name and we did the alphabet and colours and pictures of different animals. For colors and animals, I thought I could do some coloring pages. There are also flash cards out there for these things. Try finding them at Walmart and teacher's stores which you can also shop in.....you do not need to be a teacher to do so. Anyone have ideas about what else to cover or how to cover these subjects? Also teach your DD to write and memorize her name, your name, her phone number and address. It will be useful if she ever needs to know that information. I for one believe that a well informed child has a good start in life and still do this day even though my boys are 13 and 19 years of age, teach them things such as banking and laundry and cooking etc, etc. Have fun. I sure did when my boys and I did this when we were preschoolers. Oh...and read to her too....even if it just a small picture book of her choosing before bed each day. You can always sit for a half hour on the side of her bed while she is tucked in and talk about the pictures or answer any questions she has....and it is nice to have that rapport in later life with them. :-) They love it. |
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"Daye" wrote in message .. . [] Anyone have ideas about what else to cover or how to cover these subjects? Books and website recommends would also be very appreciated. It sounds as though there are two things going on -- satisfying her need to "play school," and actually teaching her something slightly academic. I really doubt that worksheet-type activities are the best way to accomplish the latter. You might do some as an amusement, but with small children, the real learning tends to take place in a much more holistic fashion, just as learning to walk and talk does. When my son was three, he was in a sort of a preschool (I just called it a playgroup). The kids were occasionally given worksheets to color, and I noticed that they were way above what the kids could interpret. Things like "circle all the number nines on this page." Well, at three or three and a half, my son was actually somewhat precocious about numbers. He could read a nine, he could count nine objects, all of that, but sit down and circle all the nines on a page? No WAY. That was a whole different kind of skill that he just did not have yet. --Helen |
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Daye wrote:
Anyone have ideas about what else to cover or how to cover these subjects? Books and website recommends would also be very appreciated. Hello Daye and MKM, First, I'd like to introduce myself. I've been lurking here for a bit, and post somewhat regularly in misc.kids.pregnancy and misc.kids.breastfeeding. My 1st child is almost 2, and I've got the second on the way. I wanted to add to this thread, since I have two ideas from our (admittedly short) experience which might be useful: -- When DS came home from daycare singing the alphabet song a while ago, we pulled out a puzzle with the upper case letters. He really liked playing with the puzzle, and now can recognize all the letters. We went and got a lower case one now -- DS really likes looking at pictures on the computer. What we do is ask him what he wants to see, and do an image search for that with Google. Google defaults to "safe" mode, so in months of doing this, we've only turned up one pornographic picture, and just moved along quickly, no harm done. I think that this activity lays the foundation for valuable skills relating to finding information online or in a library. -- Emily mom to Toby 5/1/02 #2 EDD 7/19/04 |
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Hi Daye!
Does she know her shapes? I think it's recommended that they learn those, and then progress to letters. Solid shapes of different colors would help you work on both at the same time. One of my DD's favorites was a set of foam bathtub letters. In fact, I'm sure they're still around here in one of the closets. ;-) Dena "Daye" wrote in message ... Hello all... DH started back to Uni today. I am also doing a short business course for the next 5 weeks. With both DH and I back at school, DD is really excited by the idea of school. On the way home from taking DH to the train, the idea of DD having school at home. DD will be 3 in June. I will be her teacher. I want to introduce her to the idea of school, while making it fun to learn. The areas I thought we would cover is letters, numbers, colors and animals, to start off with. I will be making some worksheets, as well as downloading some off the net. She doesn't know how to write yet, but I thought I would let her have a scribble and try to make the letters and numbers. For colors and animals, I thought I could do some coloring pages. If this goes well, it would lean us more heavily towards homeschooling (which I really want to do). Anyone have ideas about what else to cover or how to cover these subjects? Books and website recommends would also be very appreciated. -- Daye Momma to Jayan and Leopold See Jayan and Leo: http://www.aloofhosting.com/jayleo/ |
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School Ideas for almost 3yo
In article , FibbersCloset wrote:
Hi Daye! Does she know her shapes? I think it's recommended that they learn those, and then progress to letters. Solid shapes of different colors would help you work on both at the same time. One of my DD's favorites was a set of foam bathtub letters. In fact, I'm sure they're still around here in one of the closets. ;-) My son's foam bathtub letters are still next to the tub, though he now reads about 300 words per minute in the same fantasy books that I read. He doesn't play with the foam letters often any more, only about once every couple of months, and then usually in a game of some sort with me. (He makes up the rules as he goes along, and I can't remember what they were last time.) -- Kevin Karplus http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus life member (LAB, Adventure Cycling, American Youth Hostels) Effective Cycling Instructor #218-ck (lapsed) Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz Undergraduate and Graduate Director, Bioinformatics Affiliations for identification only. |
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"Kevin Karplus" wrote in message
... My son's foam bathtub letters are still next to the tub, though he now reads about 300 words per minute in the same fantasy books that I read. He doesn't play with the foam letters often any more, only about once every couple of months, and then usually in a game of some sort with me. (He makes up the rules as he goes along, and I can't remember what they were last time.) My daughter is eleven, now, so the memory is fading, but I remember that funny aspect, games that had rather elaborate rules that evolved as the play went on. -- "There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numbers and those who don't." ----------------------------- Byron "Barn" Canfield http://www.headsprout.com "Where kids learn to read." |
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Age is a big issue in teaching her through worksheets and things off of
the net. A great deal of the value of preschool is the socialization and the hands-on kind of learning IMO. We have our oldest (who will start kindergarten in the fall) in preschool this year. She has learned to count, write her name, letters, numbers, colors, and animals at this point (in preschool and at home), but the way that they have been taught is through crafts and activities. In fact, very little "sit down" type of activities have been used for academic learning. This is for children at the age of four. Expectations for three year olds should be scaled down appropriately. I do not discount the social skills that she has learned during this school year. We opted not to put her in preschool at 3 as she had a younger sister (15 months younger) to socialize with. However, the preschool environment has broadened her social skills perceptibly. She is not bound by my expectations or other family members. As a result, she has made friends and developed attachments to a broad range of new people in her life. I consider these skills to be a very valuable part of her preschool education. The feedback to me as a parent has also been helpful. Homeschool curriculums do exist for preschool, but there are other ways of "preschooling." Library story hours are a good place to start, as are regular trips to the library. Reading books about numbers, letter, colors, and animals and giving your daughter lots of access to paper, pencils, scissors, crayons, paints, and playdough are IMO a better way to lay a foundation of learning. I am a "neatie." That is one of our words to describe the fact that I don't like to have fun making a mess. It is very challenging for me to keep the playdough out for more than an hour or so. I do like to color, but only if the crayons are kept in the crayon box when they are not in use. Our 3 year old (will be four in the Spring) just figured out that scissors are for cutting things out. She used to just cut paper into smaller and smaller pieces. What a mess! Anyway, the reason I mention this is that it is hard for me to let them explore in many of the ways that the preschool prgram is equipped for. You may want to factorthat into your decision to start homeschooling at this age. Karen G |
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