Number Detectives
Guest Mail past Katie of Gift of Curiosity
I'm Katie, mom to a iv-year-former boy and a 3-twelvemonth-old girl. I'm so excited to be guest posting at I Tin Teach My Kid today in order to share a fun number learning game I call "Number Detectives."
QBoy has been really interested in numbers lately. He can easily count from 1 to 10, and he has merely about learned to recognize the numbers from i to 10 every bit well. XGirl does non recognize whatsoever numbers notwithstanding, but she does know how to count objects. I designed this Number Detectives action so that both kids could play it according to their developmental level.
I started past writing numbers in chalk upward and down our driveway.
Then I created cards for each child with dots on them. XGirl had the blue cards and QBoy had the yellow cards. As you can encounter, I wrote the numerals on XGirl's cards because she doesn't notwithstanding recognize them. So for her, the goal was to count and and then match the numbers. For QBoy, on the other mitt, the goal was to count and then recognize the numbers.
Once I had my materials prepare upward, I explained to the kids that I needed some detectives for a very important job. Were they upwards for the task? They assured me they were. :-)
I explained that all good detectives must carry a spray bottle in order to spray the bad guys. And then the kids prepared their spray bottles.
I then explained that all good detectives need tools to capture the bad guys. So the kids grabbed their hula hoops from the garage.
At that point we were ready to play, and then I handed each kid a card. They counted the dots on their card, and then had to find the corresponding number on our driveway.
In one case they found their numbers, they "captured" them by throwing a hula hoop around them.
And then they took out their spray bottles and squirted the numbers until they were gone.
This was such fun for them, because my kids get such a boot out of using the spray bottle.
Plus, all that spraying really develops the muscles of the hand.
Part of what fabricated this activity so successful was the detective scenario I created for the kids and the enthusiasm I expressed about "capturing" their numbers and squirting them with h2o. The kids happily ran up and downward our driveway capturing and spraying numbers for quite some fourth dimension. And I loved that they were having fun while simultaneously working on so many skills, such every bit counting, number recognition, gross motor, and fine motor skills.
Katie has worked in the education field for over 12 years, and recently completed her PhD in kid and adolescent development. Nonetheless, she finds parenting her two preschool age children to be the best education of all. She blogs at Gift of Marvel where she provide ideas and inspiration for fostering young children's development, learning, and marvel. You tin also keep upward with her on Facebook and Pinterest.
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