Mouse
24-10-2012, 11:34 AM
I have a lo who is coming up to 3. He is really interested in numbers at the moment. A month or so back he started pointing to the numbers & telling me what they were.
I printed out & laminated some number cards & we played various games with them (where is number 6, what's this number? etc). I did big & small cards so we could do matching games etc. He loved it & pretty soon could recognise & name all the numbers 0-10.
I then moved on to counting. I printed off picture cards with the number written at the bottom (ie. 10 cars & a number 10 at the bottom). He could tell me how many cars there were, but I realised it was just from reading the number, not actually counting the cars. I did some more cards, leaving off the number, and tried to encourage him to point to each picture & count it.
At that point he lost interest!
I decided I'd jumped too far ahead, so took it back a step & printed him out a colourful number line. He was happy to move his finger along the line, saying each number as he went. To me this was a more appropriate step and was encouraging him to count in sequence. We're counting all the time anyway (let's do your buttons up, 1,2 ,3, 4 etc), so I know he'll catch on when he's ready.
He loves his number pack (I keep it all in a folder for him) and takes it home each weekend. I haven't put anything in new for a couple of weeks and need some ideas for what else I could put in now. Do I stick to encouraging counting, or switch to the numbers 11-20 and get him recognising those as well? Or what about the number word word recognition (one, two etc)?
Any ideas for number games with bits I can print off?
I printed out & laminated some number cards & we played various games with them (where is number 6, what's this number? etc). I did big & small cards so we could do matching games etc. He loved it & pretty soon could recognise & name all the numbers 0-10.
I then moved on to counting. I printed off picture cards with the number written at the bottom (ie. 10 cars & a number 10 at the bottom). He could tell me how many cars there were, but I realised it was just from reading the number, not actually counting the cars. I did some more cards, leaving off the number, and tried to encourage him to point to each picture & count it.
At that point he lost interest!
I decided I'd jumped too far ahead, so took it back a step & printed him out a colourful number line. He was happy to move his finger along the line, saying each number as he went. To me this was a more appropriate step and was encouraging him to count in sequence. We're counting all the time anyway (let's do your buttons up, 1,2 ,3, 4 etc), so I know he'll catch on when he's ready.
He loves his number pack (I keep it all in a folder for him) and takes it home each weekend. I haven't put anything in new for a couple of weeks and need some ideas for what else I could put in now. Do I stick to encouraging counting, or switch to the numbers 11-20 and get him recognising those as well? Or what about the number word word recognition (one, two etc)?
Any ideas for number games with bits I can print off?