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How does she do with nonacedemic things? Is she dressing herself, eating with utensils, etc? Is she running, jumping, hopping, tumbling, and brachiating?
If she's very far ahead in some areas and on level or even behind on others, it would make the most sense to give her lots of opportunity to improve the weak areas, while keeping her challenged in the other areas.
Knowing number names after twenty follows a pattern until one hundred. If she didn't intuitively know that thirty-one follows thirty then it's not time to move into those numbers yet. I would go back and do more addition and subtraction with the small numbers that she knows well. You could even introduce multiplication as serial addition. IE There are three groups of two, how many are there in total? 2+2+2=6
For reading, try teaching her a few CVC words, and then use sight word flash cards to teach enough words to read easy readers. Starfall.com has some simple stories, as well as reinforcement of letter sounds.
Melissa and Doug have 12 piece wooden puzzles. They are recommended for 3+, as most puzzles are, because technically a child could choke on a puzzle piece. If your daughter does not put things in her mouth anymore, it shouldn't be an issue. Once those are mastered M & D have puzzles up to 48 pieces.
I wouldn't worry about review very often, most skills are cumulative (One cannot master the second level without knowing the first) But if she starts struggling learning a new skill, it would be worthwhile to do some sleuthing to see if something was missed or forgotten.
HTH!
If she's very far ahead in some areas and on level or even behind on others, it would make the most sense to give her lots of opportunity to improve the weak areas, while keeping her challenged in the other areas.
Knowing number names after twenty follows a pattern until one hundred. If she didn't intuitively know that thirty-one follows thirty then it's not time to move into those numbers yet. I would go back and do more addition and subtraction with the small numbers that she knows well. You could even introduce multiplication as serial addition. IE There are three groups of two, how many are there in total? 2+2+2=6
For reading, try teaching her a few CVC words, and then use sight word flash cards to teach enough words to read easy readers. Starfall.com has some simple stories, as well as reinforcement of letter sounds.
Melissa and Doug have 12 piece wooden puzzles. They are recommended for 3+, as most puzzles are, because technically a child could choke on a puzzle piece. If your daughter does not put things in her mouth anymore, it shouldn't be an issue. Once those are mastered M & D have puzzles up to 48 pieces.
I wouldn't worry about review very often, most skills are cumulative (One cannot master the second level without knowing the first) But if she starts struggling learning a new skill, it would be worthwhile to do some sleuthing to see if something was missed or forgotten.
HTH!
Thanks you very much for the comments ; I should have been more specific : my 'concern' is not so much my child's ability to read time from a normal display, but rather that she is able to progressively learn the notion of time passing, time remaining, and that she can associate key moments of the day (meals...) with moments in time. That is why I was intrigued by that pictogram watch and their claim that their method was helping children place themselves in time (http://www.watch-kids.com/). Anyone knows of that method?
