How Do They Go?
You can help your child think about the differences in "how things go" by sorting pictures of vehicles. It is a wonderful math lesson and requires no elaborate workbooks.
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What to do:
- With your child, rip or cut out pictures of things that "go" from magazines.
- Make a pile of all the pictures.
- Let your child decide on categories: things with wheels, things that fly, things that float, and so on.
- When the categories are decided upon, label the envelopes and challenge her to place each picture in the correct category.
- One by one, begin to look through the pictures together, putting them in the correct envelopes.
- Encourage your child to look through the pictures again and choose her favorite vehicle.
- Then let your child paste it on a plain sheet of paper, and encourage her to draw herself in or on the vehicle in the picture.
Let's Talk: Ideas to Explore Together.
- Can you think of some things that have wheels, but do not move you from place to place? Let's take turns naming them.
- Besides using wheels, how else can things move?
While you are having fun together, your child is learning observational skills and sorting skills, both important in math.