We just counted everything. I have some very lovely counters which are nice just to play with, move about, make patterns with and so on. Sharing/adding/etc biscuits/raisins/etc. At family dinners count how many people/noses/eyes/hands/fingers/etc round the table.
Money is good to play with too :) Cuisenaire rods, or a Base Ten set. Stuff like Hama beads too. What about computer games? Plenty of them about - Ernest played Zoombinis from her age.
The preschool workbooks with lots of stickers in are sometimes fun, sometimes useless - have a look and see what appeals. Dot-to-dots etc. Oh, I used to make little worksheets for Violet with numbers down one side and different amounts of things down the other side, for her to match up. And looking back on my blog, I did the same for Ernest at 3-and-a-bit, by then with the added bonus of laminating them for him to do over and over again and apparently he liked that a lot :) Enchanted Learning have lots of number and counting type books to print out.
I think you'd have a hard time hot-housing Linnea against her will ;-) If she's eager to learn, I don't think it counts as hot-housing (or not in a 'bad' way anyway).
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Date: 2007-07-29 11:38 pm (UTC)Money is good to play with too :) Cuisenaire rods, or a Base Ten set. Stuff like Hama beads too. What about computer games? Plenty of them about - Ernest played Zoombinis from her age.
The preschool workbooks with lots of stickers in are sometimes fun, sometimes useless - have a look and see what appeals. Dot-to-dots etc. Oh, I used to make little worksheets for Violet with numbers down one side and different amounts of things down the other side, for her to match up. And looking back on my blog, I did the same for Ernest at 3-and-a-bit, by then with the added bonus of laminating them for him to do over and over again and apparently he liked that a lot :) Enchanted Learning have lots of number and counting type books to print out.
I think you'd have a hard time hot-housing Linnea against her will ;-) If she's eager to learn, I don't think it counts as hot-housing (or not in a 'bad' way anyway).