Helpful Mom

Now that I am thinking I’ll try my hand at homeschooling the girls I’ve begun to see learning opportunities everywhere.  Katrina has begun wanting to kiss me 20times before bed.  Well what mom isn’t going to take that while it lasts ;P  And I began to realize that it was a great chance to help her with her counting at the same time.  Now we have gotten as high as 40 with no tears or formal learning times.

Dot to Dot activities are great too for learning number order and hand control for future writing skills.  Helping put silverware away can be sorting and classification, as can sorting laundry items.  Everything can be counted, and you can do shape of the day and have them look for that shape all over.  And another easy one to tuck away for one of those moments when they are bored and losing it in the car it to try to find the entire alphabet-one at a time in order, on signs, cars, store fronts, whatever.  It gets them working as a team looking for those letters and it reinforces letter order.