Thursday, February 23, 2012

Simple pattern matching game

We had borrowed from library a Finnish book on numbers and pictures corresponding to the numbers.
The picture below is a page for number 100 listing 100 items.

While Barathraam enquire asking names of each objects, slowly he also started identifying that there are more dogs, bears in it and started recognizing the patterns.
Then I realised how wonderful game it was for him to identify star shapes, dog shapes in this picture of random objects.

And I thought I could share here, for kids of all ages would love to recognize patterns and locate objects. Try it out and share your ideas.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Introducing Numbers - fun way

One day, we just came across the number train rhymes in youtube website and it became Barathraam's one of the favorite videos. He could count from 1-10 in Tamil & English now.. So I just thought of making a number train at home using color charts, that way he could associate the numbers he tell with the way it is written.
And, it turned out to be good that he could now point to the correct number as he tells it [ah, yes provided he is in a good mood :-)]

I read in "Baby Minds" by Linda Acredolo et al, that kids find it interesting to see patterns in what they see.. To aid this skill, they suggested drawing some simple figures from numbers and alphabets. I could come up with my limited creativity the below figures associating it to numbers.. Barathraam does enjoy it and hope he could come up with better ones as he grow.





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Friday, February 10, 2012

Introducing days

I just came across some website which mentioned a fun way to introduce days to kids..

I thought I could introduce the days to Barathraam along with the significance of the day by representing a God deity.

Here it goes,





In the small carboard box we used to put the current day's significant deity  while telling name of the day..
like for example, picture of sun and tell that it is Sunday..
We can alter it slightly with any specific activities like music/reading/drama and let them guess name of the day..

Try out and do let me know if you have any suggestions..

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