When I first started homeschooling this is what we did. Since we couldn't afford to buy any curriculum.
The kids were 4, 2,1, and baby. I started with my oldest daughter,we did lots of art stuff like:
gluing, cutting with her own special scissors(she's left handed)
scribbling on large paper(we bought newspaper ends from the newspaper office in our town, they were very cheap and very large). The younger kids would love scribble on it also with large crayons.
I had over the years collected used and cheap crayons, melted them down and made bigger crayons. This site tells how to do that. All the kids loved scribbling on that large paper! I would then use the paper to wrap any presents we gave to people.
For my oldest as she got more sure of her coloring, I would draw squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, different shapes, letters, numbers, on the paper and tell her to color them in. More of a controlled coloring. This helped a lot for when she started handwriting.
I made puzzles out of boxes and hard stock paper for them to put together, here's a site that shows how. All the kids liked doing the puzzles but the one year old loved it! I made number puzzles, ABC puzzles, Animal, plant, color, puzzles. Some of the pictures I tore out of magazines or catalogs I would get free at the library.
to be continued!!!! Gotta go wash dishes!hahaha
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Help for children 3-5 for reading readiness!
Here's some ideas I've tried with my kids and others to help them learn to read, or get ready for reading. These activities help the eyes get accustomed to seeing difference in color and shapes, like they would in learning phonics and letter or numbers.
1. Teach the child colors, use nature, or put up colored shapes on your walls.
2. Make some dot to dot pictures for the child to do, they are a lot of fun. The child can then color them in with the colors you call out! They will also learn some numbers! Also make a game by using little cars to go from number to number
3.Have the child copy a sequence of colors that you make, example : draw with a crayon three different colors on a piece of paper, next have the child pick out the right crayon colors and do the same thing. Use socks, blocks, marbles, buttons, etc.
4. Make a poster or scrap book of each color, let the child color pictures of that color or cut out pictures and place them on the poster or in the scrap book.
5. Draw the child some shapes like square, triangel, circle, rectangle etc. Let the child identify them with words or another object of the same shape.
6. Make some easy puzzles with different shapes and let the child put them together.
7. Once you've gone over different shapes with child ask him to visulize in his mind the shape and then draw it on a piece of paper, once the chilld can do this you can add color to the object your telling him to draw.
8. Put a bunch of colored objects on a tray or table and ask the child to pick out the colors you call out, this works for shapes also.
9. Hiding objects around the house while child is watching and then doing another type of lesson for 10 min. When done with that lesson ask the child to find what you have hidden. Also can have the child hide the objects. Do another type lesson and have him find the objects when done.
10. Placing 4 or 5 objects on a counter, ask child to look the other way while you take an object away. Then ask child what object is missing. You can make a game out of this and both of you can play it!.
1. Teach the child colors, use nature, or put up colored shapes on your walls.
2. Make some dot to dot pictures for the child to do, they are a lot of fun. The child can then color them in with the colors you call out! They will also learn some numbers! Also make a game by using little cars to go from number to number
3.Have the child copy a sequence of colors that you make, example : draw with a crayon three different colors on a piece of paper, next have the child pick out the right crayon colors and do the same thing. Use socks, blocks, marbles, buttons, etc.
4. Make a poster or scrap book of each color, let the child color pictures of that color or cut out pictures and place them on the poster or in the scrap book.
5. Draw the child some shapes like square, triangel, circle, rectangle etc. Let the child identify them with words or another object of the same shape.
6. Make some easy puzzles with different shapes and let the child put them together.
7. Once you've gone over different shapes with child ask him to visulize in his mind the shape and then draw it on a piece of paper, once the chilld can do this you can add color to the object your telling him to draw.
8. Put a bunch of colored objects on a tray or table and ask the child to pick out the colors you call out, this works for shapes also.
9. Hiding objects around the house while child is watching and then doing another type of lesson for 10 min. When done with that lesson ask the child to find what you have hidden. Also can have the child hide the objects. Do another type lesson and have him find the objects when done.
10. Placing 4 or 5 objects on a counter, ask child to look the other way while you take an object away. Then ask child what object is missing. You can make a game out of this and both of you can play it!.
Teaching young children math
ruth beechick talks about this in her book 'an easy start in arithmetic"!
The best way to begin teaching a young child math is with manipulative, such as bugs, rocks, pennies, marbles, m & ms, socks, any objects you can count with. It can be taught anytime throughout your day, when your doing laundry, putting socks together, counting them, setting the table, counting the silverware, glasses, plates etc. Remember to make it fun for you and the child!!
Using manipulative like this, the kids can then figure out some very hard problems! Just holding and seeing the objects clicks in their young brains. When most kids are young they don’t think of a math problem as we do 1+3=4 , they need something more hands on so they can touch it and feel it to understand its value, once they learn this way of doing math the other steps wont be as hard. This is the first step of how other types of math will be understood.
After the child gets use to using the manipulative she/he will be able to picture the things in their head, he/she will be able to see them and work out the easier problems. When he/she is ready to move on to the next step, you’ll know because the child will not be using the manipulative as much, she/he will start picturing the problem in her head, finding a faster way to figure math problems out!!! Then it’s on to step 2!!!
From ruth beechick booklet "an early start in arithmetic'
Levels of thinking about (example 3 + 2 = 5) or any other numbers
Manipulative mode-
Real objects, with touching and moving: three plates or spoons, marbles, jacks, rocks, bugs etc, put two more with them. now there are five
Real objects, with only sight: 3 jacks in this group, 2 jacks in another group, there are 5 all together
Transition-
Pictures: picture of 3 jacks in a group and 2 in another group. 5 total
Symbolic pictures: 3 dots in this group and 2 in another group. 5 total
Mental image mode-
Touchable objects: think of 3 jacks and 2 jacks. they make 5 all together. (story problems)
Non-touchable ideas: a team won 3 games and lost 2 games. they played 5 games all together.
Symbolic mode-
Digits only: 3 and 2 are 5
Digits and signs: 3 + 2= 5
ruth beechick talks about this in her book 'an easy start in arithmetic"!
The best way to begin teaching a young child math is with manipulative, such as bugs, rocks, pennies, marbles, m & ms, socks, any objects you can count with. It can be taught anytime throughout your day, when your doing laundry, putting socks together, counting them, setting the table, counting the silverware, glasses, plates etc. Remember to make it fun for you and the child!!
Using manipulative like this, the kids can then figure out some very hard problems! Just holding and seeing the objects clicks in their young brains. When most kids are young they don’t think of a math problem as we do 1+3=4 , they need something more hands on so they can touch it and feel it to understand its value, once they learn this way of doing math the other steps wont be as hard. This is the first step of how other types of math will be understood.
After the child gets use to using the manipulative she/he will be able to picture the things in their head, he/she will be able to see them and work out the easier problems. When he/she is ready to move on to the next step, you’ll know because the child will not be using the manipulative as much, she/he will start picturing the problem in her head, finding a faster way to figure math problems out!!! Then it’s on to step 2!!!
From ruth beechick booklet "an early start in arithmetic'
Levels of thinking about (example 3 + 2 = 5) or any other numbers
Manipulative mode-
Real objects, with touching and moving: three plates or spoons, marbles, jacks, rocks, bugs etc, put two more with them. now there are five
Real objects, with only sight: 3 jacks in this group, 2 jacks in another group, there are 5 all together
Transition-
Pictures: picture of 3 jacks in a group and 2 in another group. 5 total
Symbolic pictures: 3 dots in this group and 2 in another group. 5 total
Mental image mode-
Touchable objects: think of 3 jacks and 2 jacks. they make 5 all together. (story problems)
Non-touchable ideas: a team won 3 games and lost 2 games. they played 5 games all together.
Symbolic mode-
Digits only: 3 and 2 are 5
Digits and signs: 3 + 2= 5
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