The week of November 4-9 the Discover More! Store will have a 20% discount on Sands Alive. We will also be offering a 20% discount on all bath toys. Activities as simple as pouring and playing with sand and water are ways for children to begin learning about math skills. Parents can help to promote early learning of math skills by encouraging some of the following activities: · Let kids practice pouring and measuring. Keep safe containers of various sizes around and give children well-supervised time in the bathtub for playing with water. Play guessing games by asking your child to estimate how many small containers will be needed to fill up a big container. Extend this kind of play to different settings (outdoors, at the beach, in the kitchen, while doing laundry) and with different safe and age appropriate materials (e.g. sand, pebbles, potting soil, coins, beads). Kids may also enjoy pouring and measuring some foods like frozen peas or corn and with close supervision, they can use these skills to help prepare meals. · Combine reading time with math time. There are many wonderful children’s books that feature counting or math concepts as part of the story—creating an effective way to combine lap reading with arithmetic-centered play. You can find plenty of titles by Googling “counting books” and similar phrases. Other good titles can be found in consultation with the children’s librarian at your public library or at your local specialty toy store. One word of warning—some books in this genre use not-so-healthy food products such as Oreos or M & M’s as the item being counted and some parents may wish to avoid those snack-centered “stories”. · Play counting games—anytime, anywhere. Many of us grew up with rhymes and song-games that helped us learn how to count. Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed and One Two, Buckle My Shoe come to mind. Some of these classic ditties have been made into board games of varying quality, but parents should keep in mind that all they really need is a playful spirit and a simple everyday occasion like a car ride or waiting in line at the grocery store to engage your child in those types of counting play. Of course, age appropriate board games are also great ways for kids to learn counting skills and some online games are effective and fun.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:05:01 +0000
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