Hi, I'm still on my summer break there are 17 holy days of vocation , I don't really want to post school plans or whatever's connected to school, besides I haven't even thought what I'll teach about this year. But I understand that my son's turned 5 and we are aproaching to school age, so we need to prepare. We need to learn how to count and read (at least we'd better learn the letters). He is more eager to learn the numbers than the alphabet, but I'm cool with it. He likes numbers, so we do a lot of counting activity while walking on the street. I usually ask him to count how many cars are parked near our house, or how many air conditioning systems are there on our house (we live in block of flats). It's interesting and amusing.
I'm sure that the process of learning should be exciting, not borring and should answer the demands of curious child.
If my son likes counting more than reading I'm ready to teach him how to count and I'll focus on it more.
So that's what we've done last Saturday and today (Tuesday, 5)
1.Math colouring.
As we tried to combine useful with pleasant, we had to colour and to have breakfast. We were successful in both activities and everybody was pleased, especially me. :)
Kostia really liked this activity, he had to colour the picture according the numbers, but it wasn't as easy as you think. There was some math too, he had to add or to subtract and than to find out what colour to use.
2. Learing signs "greater than'', "less than'' and "equals"