More ideas to teach our young kids!!
These games and crafts are fun to play with the younger kids and will keep them busy while you teach another child. Of course you’ll have to have some one playing with the child and helping him/her. I have one of the older kids do this if I need to help another child. I used these games and crafts on my kids.
Matching ABC game!
Make a matching alphabet game! Make out of recipe cards, print small case letters and upper case letters on the cards. If you can see through the backs of card just color with a crayon. Now mix up the cards and lay them face down 5 across and 5 down or anyway you want, then have child and you take turns turning over and matching uppercases with lower case letters !! Be sure to have the child say the letters! Give a prize at the end of game!
What letter is in the bag game!!
Fill a bag with different things that start with sounds you want to teach your child. Things like ball, book, pin, doll, car, rock, apple etc. now show the child all the items in the bag, put them back in the bag. Next tell the child to find something in the bag that starts with an A in the bag and ask the child what sound(s) the A makes. Let the child reach in and try to find the Apple by touching it only, not by seeing. ( if the child doesn’t know the sounds tell him/her)
Counting around the house!
Find a bunch of stuff you can put in a bag and count! Like buttons, rocks, pins, pencils, spoons, paper clips, erasers, etc. then let child dump bag out on tray or table and count how many objects of each there is. This is good for younger children especially, helps them put a number with objects.
ABC Bingo!
Make your own bingo cards with construction paper. Write the ABC’s on it like in a bingo game. Use upper case and lower case letter also can mix in numbers! Learn two things in one game! Now to play the game call out the letter or number and the child can put a marker on the letter or number you call. When the child calls out bingo you can give the kids a prize! This also works with states and capitals or times tables.
Tissue paper letters
Using a large poster board draw a letter on the board and let the child tear up tissue paper and decorate the letter. Also can use finger paints to paint a letter on the poster board! Nice and messy!
Counting Book!
This is fun, make a counting book together. Buy one of those blank books at the dollar store or make your own with construction paper stapling the pages together or lacing them. On each page have the child trace or print a number. Now have the child draw that many items on the page! Also fun to find items and glue them on the page. These can be make of material also, just use hot glue. Also if you have a large family you can use pictures of the family to use as objects to glue on the pages! Also can do this with the ABCs!
A B C collage!
Buy a large piece of poster board(1$ at dollar store) and look through magazines, pictures, newspapers, etc for letters that begin with a,b,c,d,etc. make it a month long project! By looking for a letter a day and then paste them on the poster board with the letter under it! Hang it on the wall so everyone can see it. Also works with newsprint.
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Some ideas i use for the younger kids
Some ideas i use for the younger kids
1. using giant piece of cardboard or poster board, draw roads for there little cars, can draw in mountains, trees , people and houses. Mine would play for hours with this.
2.stencils, my younger kids would love to put stencils on rolls of newsprint (big paper we would get from the newspaper)then they would color them in. we did themes sometimes, using the little dover stencils, I used them for wrapping paper.
3. Using colored chalk on black or dark colored construction paper was always fun.
4.also using chalk on a side walk, or basketball court,
5. lacing with buttons, using these for learning how to count was fun also, and sorting them into different colors.
6. catching a bug in a jar and letting the child watch the bug, close up!
7. also stringing fruit loops cereal.
8. playing balloon ball with balloons
9. trying to jump rope
10. laying a large piece of paper on the floor, and letting kids color on it.
11. laying the child on a long piece of newprint and drawing there body, then let them finish!
12. include the child in what your studying, make him up his own little book or math or coloring etc and he only does this workbook when your kids do.
13. being consistant with not letting the younger ones interrupt the older ones helped a lot, they need to know there bounderies
1. using giant piece of cardboard or poster board, draw roads for there little cars, can draw in mountains, trees , people and houses. Mine would play for hours with this.
2.stencils, my younger kids would love to put stencils on rolls of newsprint (big paper we would get from the newspaper)then they would color them in. we did themes sometimes, using the little dover stencils, I used them for wrapping paper.
3. Using colored chalk on black or dark colored construction paper was always fun.
4.also using chalk on a side walk, or basketball court,
5. lacing with buttons, using these for learning how to count was fun also, and sorting them into different colors.
6. catching a bug in a jar and letting the child watch the bug, close up!
7. also stringing fruit loops cereal.
8. playing balloon ball with balloons
9. trying to jump rope
10. laying a large piece of paper on the floor, and letting kids color on it.
11. laying the child on a long piece of newprint and drawing there body, then let them finish!
12. include the child in what your studying, make him up his own little book or math or coloring etc and he only does this workbook when your kids do.
13. being consistant with not letting the younger ones interrupt the older ones helped a lot, they need to know there bounderies
Teaching A Young Child
this is what i did with my kids when they were young and just starting to do some academic learning, its funny but it was just everyday stuff that went right along with chores, cooking, living!
i started oldest daughter when she was around 4 with some academics so our subjects we did(i guess you could say) were phonics, reading, handwriting, math, bible, science, music lots of art, play!
I bought a lesson plan booklet, (sometimes I use just notebooks also,)In my lesson plan booklet it has blank squares, so I labeled the top of the squares with the subjectsOn The side I put the days of the week( i needed to do this because i would forget what i wanted to do, so i write every thing down! but if we didnt get to it that day, that was fine theres always tomorrow.
Alot of the time the kids would just start doing something like looking at the globe or map on the wall and start asking questions so we'd be doing geograpy for a while! well one thing is out of geography you can teach all the school subjects!
well anyway heres a sample of what we would do dailyMonday(We started at 9am usually, after breakfast and morning chores)
Phonics- practice 3 letter sounds ab and cI will write each one on a recipe card so she can see them individuallyPractice the sounds of the 3 letters with herLet her form words if she canUse each letter and look around the room to see if we can find something that begins with that letter(I write it down in my notebook)Let her trace the letters with her fingers, (if there was steam on windows I would have her form them on her own on the window.) a chalk board works good also!
Reading- ( I made little booklets up with words and latter senctences for her to read using recipe cards.)Read the words or the sentences,I would also read her a short story and let her follow along with meThen we would read the little booklet again(sometimes throughout the day she would go over and over that booklet!)Ask her to tell me what the story was about and she'd tell someone else what she read just to anchor it in her mind. that seems to help them remember.
Handwriting-Teach her to write bou’(I wrote it on a large piece of paper so she could trace it,)On same paper have her write her name with crayons, doesn’t have to have lines, I just let her be creative about it.She would draw a picture using her name(usually she just wrote her name a bunch of different ways!)Also on large paper with her name I would have her write the letters we learned in phonics abc, separately and in words( when all the kids were older i taught them the italic method of writing)
Math-(I made up math problems for her)Count from 1 to ?How many fingers and toes ?How many pennieshow many rocks or bugs or...........................How many pieces of candy are here? And when I take 2 away now how many are left(Stuff like that) (if you want to use a math book rod and staff have some great ones that teach the same way.)
Bible-She would learn to memorize a bible verse a week, kids this age are very good at this, I would give her a prize at the end of the week.(on Friday )
Art-She’d do some kinda craft or drawing, whatever she wanted to. Sometimes I’d have certain things but others I just let her do what she wanted.
Science- run around out side looking for bugs, plants, digging in the dirt for worms for dh, picking berries, feeding the animals, collecting eggs, planting the garden, etc
music- we'd learn songs, the other kids all had an instument they learned, we only did practise for about 5 min. at a time. its worked! they can all play piano, guitar, manolin and violin.
i started oldest daughter when she was around 4 with some academics so our subjects we did(i guess you could say) were phonics, reading, handwriting, math, bible, science, music lots of art, play!
I bought a lesson plan booklet, (sometimes I use just notebooks also,)In my lesson plan booklet it has blank squares, so I labeled the top of the squares with the subjectsOn The side I put the days of the week( i needed to do this because i would forget what i wanted to do, so i write every thing down! but if we didnt get to it that day, that was fine theres always tomorrow.
Alot of the time the kids would just start doing something like looking at the globe or map on the wall and start asking questions so we'd be doing geograpy for a while! well one thing is out of geography you can teach all the school subjects!
well anyway heres a sample of what we would do dailyMonday(We started at 9am usually, after breakfast and morning chores)
Phonics- practice 3 letter sounds ab and cI will write each one on a recipe card so she can see them individuallyPractice the sounds of the 3 letters with herLet her form words if she canUse each letter and look around the room to see if we can find something that begins with that letter(I write it down in my notebook)Let her trace the letters with her fingers, (if there was steam on windows I would have her form them on her own on the window.) a chalk board works good also!
Reading- ( I made little booklets up with words and latter senctences for her to read using recipe cards.)Read the words or the sentences,I would also read her a short story and let her follow along with meThen we would read the little booklet again(sometimes throughout the day she would go over and over that booklet!)Ask her to tell me what the story was about and she'd tell someone else what she read just to anchor it in her mind. that seems to help them remember.
Handwriting-Teach her to write bou’(I wrote it on a large piece of paper so she could trace it,)On same paper have her write her name with crayons, doesn’t have to have lines, I just let her be creative about it.She would draw a picture using her name(usually she just wrote her name a bunch of different ways!)Also on large paper with her name I would have her write the letters we learned in phonics abc, separately and in words( when all the kids were older i taught them the italic method of writing)
Math-(I made up math problems for her)Count from 1 to ?How many fingers and toes ?How many pennieshow many rocks or bugs or...........................How many pieces of candy are here? And when I take 2 away now how many are left(Stuff like that) (if you want to use a math book rod and staff have some great ones that teach the same way.)
Bible-She would learn to memorize a bible verse a week, kids this age are very good at this, I would give her a prize at the end of the week.(on Friday )
Art-She’d do some kinda craft or drawing, whatever she wanted to. Sometimes I’d have certain things but others I just let her do what she wanted.
Science- run around out side looking for bugs, plants, digging in the dirt for worms for dh, picking berries, feeding the animals, collecting eggs, planting the garden, etc
music- we'd learn songs, the other kids all had an instument they learned, we only did practise for about 5 min. at a time. its worked! they can all play piano, guitar, manolin and violin.
How to Tell if Your Child is Ready to Read!
If you are in tune to your child you will be able to tell when he/she is ready to learn how to read. They have different ways of letting us know when the time comes.
1. Some of the kids learn the favorite books we read to them by heart and like to sit pretending to read them.
2.Some children ask us about words or letters. Whats that word say or whats that letter or how do you make that letter.
3.To see if the child is ready teach him/her to write or pronounce one or more sounds. Does he/she want to learn , seem interested in learning them? or does the child resist?
1. Some of the kids learn the favorite books we read to them by heart and like to sit pretending to read them.
2.Some children ask us about words or letters. Whats that word say or whats that letter or how do you make that letter.
3.To see if the child is ready teach him/her to write or pronounce one or more sounds. Does he/she want to learn , seem interested in learning them? or does the child resist?
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