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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: When did you start teaching your baby to read?
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on: March 25, 2016, 01:16:05 PM
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I started exploring with my twins when they were six months old. I used the Doman flash cards, dot cards, and available online resources. What I learned from them in the process is that they love to learn, which they continue even today at 5 years, which is great. Early learning goes a long way in nurturing love of education  |
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child - Other Topics / Free Homeschool
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on: March 15, 2016, 04:43:09 PM
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Hi Moms, I am a mom of two (twins, boy/girl). In the process of collecting learning resources for them, I ended up developing a website www.afreehomeschool.com I have worked on the prenatal, baby and tot sections right now and working towards more. It is a free website, so please do visit and check the resources if they are helpful to you. Also, kindly give suggestions |
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Re: Suggestion for Math Manipulatives for a 2 year old?
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on: August 01, 2013, 02:42:05 PM
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Few suggestions: Walmart and Target: Walmart and Target have sales after Easter, Halloween, Valentine's Day and Christmas. Prices are marked up to 90% down. I love these sales, you can pick up foam stamps, plastic spiders, bouncing balls, Easter eggs, cookie cutters, baskets and use them for you math tub. I picked up most things for a dollar or less and they have been of great use. And oh, every time I visit these stores for my grocery shopping I sneak in a Hot Wheels car which costs only 97 cents. But over a period of time you collect a lot of them. They have magnetic alphabets and numbers priced for only $1.27, much cheaper than Melissa and Doug.You can also use them for sight words. Dollar Tree: This is a treasure house of manipulatives. Pom poms, erasers, ping pong balls,stickers, marbles..the list goes on. Check their kitchen section for spoons, scoops, tongs, turkey basters, kitchen timers, divided trays, egg platters, trays, placemats, ice cube trays to use along with your manipulatives. orientaltrading.com : This site has a good collection of educational stuff. The prices are good, they have frequent sales, and few days a month they have free shipping days. I ordered an assortmenment of vinyl finger puppets from them, but was not happy with the repetitions and they refunded me the whole amount and I could even keep the puppets. They have good customer service. I also use jelly beans, fruit loops, gummy fruit and so on, as we were also doing colors, motor skills etc. You can use them if your kids dont know its candy, mine dont so they dont eat . And whatever else you can collect, bottlecaps etc. |
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Re: Which abacus should I buy?
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on: July 29, 2013, 11:30:58 AM
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Thanks pokerdad, seastar, skylark and tamsyn, this forum is great . I have one more question. I bought the book Marshmallow math and beginning to read it. But I could not open the link to the abacus e-book from mathstart.com, (they say I have to be a member, I already am). Anyways, can anyone suggest me a good book or website for abacus, as I am new to it? Or can anyone share the link to the free mathstart ebook which opens? |
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Which abacus should I buy?
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on: July 24, 2013, 08:34:22 PM
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I was thinking of buying an abacus for my 28 months twins. Yesterday I saw a Melissa and Doug abacus at T J Maxx for $9.99. I was tempted to buy it, but was wondering if there are better ones available. This is just an additional activity for my kids because they love to count. Right now they count from 1 to 20 ( mostly 1 to 16 as we have 16 stairs in our house  ), but later I am thinking of starting more math activities. Right now we are concentrating on reading. Is Melissa and Doug abacus a good one for toddlers and which activities should I do with them besides the usual counting. Which book should I buy for abacus related math (I am planning to buy Marshmallow Math for math otherwise..too many good reviews on BK  ) Please advise me. |
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EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: John Taylor Gatto - review & discussion of his ideas
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on: May 24, 2013, 11:45:30 AM
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My two cents. I'snt schooling really unschooling. I taught in some schools in UK, and barring the schools in inner London (if we continued to live in London and start our family there, we would have sent our kids to a private school, the schools there are really difficult with high incidences of violence, bullying and cops assigned to monitor, wonderful cops though), most other schools are good. We talk so much about empathy, but nowhere is it more evident than in the classroom, where Down Syndrome kid, a gifted kid, an ADD kid, a dyslexic kid sit together, play, learn(?) , argue. Kids learn a lot of empathy, than I would think in any other setting. They have to manage the bully, run for that next class just to reach in time, at times ride the public transport, manage their lunch money...lot of skills in exercise. It is debatable how much learning takes place in a school but life skills are definitely learnt, so in a way is unschooling not happening in schools? We now live in the US, where homeschooling is an option. Both me and my husband are from India, and have been schooled. I loved my school and my husband didn't. We have twins who are 2 years old, so schooling is yet couple years away, and we have not yet decided whether to homeschool, send them to a public school or a private school. But schools do serve some purpose, and I wouldn't be too negative about them. |
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