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Parenting after 35
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Type A question for toddler SAHM's
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Do you have a "teaching plan" for your LO's? I don't mean an actual teaching plan, but something more than reading, Scout and letter blocks?
I've been doing alphabet flash cards and French flash cards a couple times a week, and there's the reading, counting and alphabet recitation, but I'm wondering if I should add some more stuff now that he's almost 2.
Should I try to make sure we have a few minutes each day of more organized learning? I was actually thinking of getting a white board but stopped myself thinking that his Hot Wheels etch-a-scetch thingy will do for now.
What do you do? What do you think?
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Re: Type A question for toddler SAHM's
You are way more organized than I am already! Outside of the signs, all I do is play with her. We do have alphabet Duplos, and while we're playing I ask her which letter something is... and sometimes we count things. Sometimes I ask her to "read" something to me, like Hop on Pop.
Rom speaks only French to her now, which I think helps her.
See, I wish my French was better so I could speak more of it to him
Stupid mono-lingual household!
But in that vein, I got him a book that teaches about house stuff in Mandarin so we can learn together
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Cool!
I'm trying to get Rom to ask his mom to find videos of T'Choupi or Caillou so she gets a bit more French... If she finds some, I'll see if I can send you some, too, if you want.
Would love them! You are so sweet! How are you feeling BTW?
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Boy, I'm a slacker.
I try every day to do a little bit of learning. We have a shape sorter that he's finally getting the hang of.. Plus lots of books. Right now it's mostly counting.. he can get to 10 sorta. (4 and 5 are missing a lot and he rarely does them in order). He also has some picture books that we look at and I "drill" him on that stuff.
But I swear he gets more out of Sesame Street (when I let him watch it) than anything I try to do with him.
I really like the Productive Parenting Website for educational activity ideas. They have activities for different ages with a short lesson plan, including objectives and supplies. The activities are nothing out of the ordinary, but include things I wouldn't have thought of.
you can sign up for a daily email. I was getting them, but I prefer to go right to the site, and find activities myself.
https://www.productiveparenting.com/
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Maddie has learned a lot through just playing. I gave her crayons when she was 1 and she would bring them to me to draw for her. At first she liked me to draw shapes for her, so she learned her shapes and colors pretty quickly through that and just identifying the shapes and colors we were drawing everywhere else.
My mom gave her a LF fridge alphabet toy when she was 18 months and between that, reading and writing letters for her (and her trying to draw them) she now knows all of her letters and sounds. That was all through play, however, it was her favorite thing to do and we did this a lot through out the day.
She is also still using signs and learning new ones. I don't have a specific time or anything or show her videos, I just use them with her. We have started asking her to "show us -blank- sign" and she usually does. Sometimes she surprises me and pulls out one that she never really used or took to and so I dropped it after a few attempts over 6 months ago. I am always surprised she stores them away. Even if you don't have a teaching curriculum/schedule, Mikey is learning and storing so much away through play and will use when he wants.
I just reread your post and you mentioned counting. I count things casually when I see them and also "add" with her. You have 2 monies (coins) how many will you have if I give your one more. To her, it's a game. She either knows and we clap, or she doesn't and I tell her at and she usually (but not always) repeats it and we clap. No pressure, always fun and we are finished "playing" when she is.
I never know how much she is understanding and retaining, but she shows us every now and again. For example, we were coloring and she made 5 lines and said "five" and gave it a high five. Her brother drew four lines and asked her how many she needed to add to have five and she drew one more. So, she is getting something on some level, but not always in the way I would have expected or in a way I would have known to evaluate her, if that makes sense.