Just before your child is ready to learn something (punctuation, multiplication, etc.), tape a poster on the subject somewhere where they will look at it often. It might not help too much, but it can't hurt!
From The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child by Linda Dobson
Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inspiration. Show all posts
Friday, September 9, 2011
Things to Do at the Grocery Store
- guess how much something weighs
- count fruit & veggies as you bag them
- teach per unit/per pound prices, have them compare
Games to Play
- 24
- chess/checkers
- chutes & ladders
- hive alive
- labyrinth
- learning wrap-ups
- presto change-o
- rack-o
- tangrams
- set
- uno
- take off
Ideas to Use
- animals
- holidays
- national symbols--4th of July
- magnets
- shapes--tracing/drawing
- superlatives
- sequencing
- counting
- other cultures
- safety rules/symbols
- plants
- metal, plastic, glass
- earth, moon, stars, planets
- measurements--longer than, more full, heavier (ruler)
- good foods
- stringing beads
- upper & lowercase
- patterns
- days of the week
- months
- over/under, closed/open, front/behind, above/below
- light & shadow (blacklight)
- lines--thick, thin, straight, curvy, zigzag
- instruments
- following instructions
- make play dough
- sky, water, earth, underground
- dinosaurs
- bugs
- catapults
- spiderweb tape
- sink the cork
- untangle twine mess
- balance beam
- hurdles
- bird feeder
- grow grass
- finger painting
- rain gauge
- tape measure
- leveler
- paintbrushes cut with different tips
- hinge & latch board
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)