I thought I’d share with you a simple little learning activity
which I’ve been doing with T this Christmas.
As he’ll be starting school in less than 10 months (eeeeeeeek!) we’ve
been doing a few more learning activities lately alongside our crafty or
creative activities.
This one is to start to introduce the concept of graphs and
charting with a little one, without them really having to understand what it is
they are doing!
I created a very simple graph with numbers along the Y axis,
and along the X axis we added some Christmas stickers to denote the Christmas card
type.
Quite simply, each time we receive a Christmas card, T gets
to open it and then he adds a sticker next to the relevant sticker on the X
axis. We have a little elf on the end
which is where we add all the cards that don’t fit into any of the other
categories.
T is loving doing this little activity and I’m hoping it is
giving him the starting steps to recognise what a graph is when the time comes.
On the maths learning subject, I’ve noticed that T now knows
all his numbers all of a sudden. Now I’ve
been working on these with him for the longest time and he can never
remember. Well it would seem that when
he has to identify the correct number on his advent calendar he can manage it,
the little monkey! Sometimes he pretends
he doesn’t know things when he really does, does anyone else notice this with
their little ones?
