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cynthia -> RE: Prek/kg in NC (4/29/2008 10:57:21 AM)
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Is she reading at all yet? If she is ready to begin sounding words out on her own, I would get a cookie sheet and magnetic letters to put small words together and help her sound them out, then read books that have those sounds in them. I liked this method for my children. We also played matching games with small words like bug, rug, cat, etc., once they had learned the sounds that correspond with those letters. I wrote the words on index cards. If you don't know how the matching/memory game works, this is what you do. Place all the cards face down in a grid. Lift two cards up to see if they match. If they do match, that player keeps the match. If not, she turns it back over. When they are quite little, like your gd, it also works to leave the cards up and when she lifts a card, she looks to see if it matches any of the cards facing up. If not, she can turn over another card. This sounds too easy, but for someone who is still sounding out words, it's not, as she will be trying to match cards that she has to really think about whether they match or not.
Lots of exploration play is good. Nature walks where you examine plants, bugs, etc. Trips to the zoo. Easy science experiments. I wouldn't get into too much form academics yet. Keep it to games like math games, rather than more formal work. Children learn better that way for the most part and will retain it. If you present information in a way that they feel like they are playing a game or playing outside, they will absorb it well and it increases their thinking skills. With my children, I started them in Math-U-See in first grade. Math-U-See is a math program that I love. My kids enjoy it too.
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