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Love2play -> Learning Activities (8/14/2008 11:45:24 AM)

What kind of activities do you use for your children that will help them learn, but have fun at the same time?

I am going into an early childhood education program in college and the students need to come up with ideas for the children.
Any idea would be really appreciative :)



creationtalk -> RE: Learning Activities (8/15/2008 8:28:14 PM)

I have always found that games are fun.

For math: Animal-opoly, Dino-opoly, Bug-opoly (themed Monopoly games--also educational in science since they have information about the animal/dino/bug on the "property" cards and quiz questions on draw cards as well. When we were first starting out learning addition, I would have him count the number of dots then say so 3 + 4 is 7. As he got better with addition, I started having him add the points himself without counting. Now, knowing 10 places per side, he has to guess where his player will go after he adds the points without counting (then count to confirm).

Also our personal version of "Rummycube"--he has to add the points he puts down and his total

Spelling/reading: Scrabble. At first I would help him find words and then he would have to read the words if he could not tell me what it meant, we would read the definition from the dictionary. Now he's getting a little better, I still help some, but I am teaching him to use the dictionary to look up words that he can spell with his letters and letters on the board. If he gets the word on his own, we double it's value (incentive to do it himself). This also doubles for practice in math since he has to figure out the points for his words and add his total.



OneOfHisJewels -> RE: Learning Activities (8/17/2008 7:15:44 PM)

I'm not a home school mom, but I used to teach preschool.

I've used divided pans and beads to teach fractions.
You can "thing paint." You put paper in the bottom of a dishpan, and then put paint on the object, put it in the pan, and let them jiggle the pan. Use several objects and several colors, and then you have a colorful variety filled painting.

Put leaves under paper, and have them rub crayons on them.

Of course, the usual painting, coloring, etc.

I have done animal and transportation units with kids. While doing the animal unit, let them set up their own little "zoo," with toy animals and wood blocks.

Those green strawberry baskets can be used for so many different things: pretend baby playpens, weaving yarn in, pretend animal cages, etc.

Cotton balls, also, go far for many many crafts.

You can also take a toilet paper roll, glue it upright on cardboard, paint popsicle sticks, glue the sticks on, and boom, you have a vase.

Dot to Dots are good.

And if you don't have a workbook handy, you can write letters and numbers in highlight marker for the kids to trace.

I could go on and on an on. Methinks I need to find you some links.
Here, Here, hands on Bible activities here, oh, I almost forgot, music cd's and tapes are GREAT learning tools for pre schoolers.

Also, when I was growing up we had a wooden alphabet, which we loved.

Also, Michael's, Wal Mart, and Dollar Tree Stores All have things that a person can put to educational use. Also, don't forget about educational puzzles. Lol, this thread could fill a book.


Oh, yeah, when I taught Sunday School, and used a flannel board, I used to let the kids take turns putting the flannels on.



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