oh awesome, thanks for that

I really should read that How To guide!

Is there anywhere I can download a list of the words used in Little Reader to print some flash cards.

I'll type them if I need to but just thought they might be available somewhere.

Progress has been really slow going as we havent been doing it every day. I thought maybe looking at the cards in a different format might help

thanks

Just wondering if you knew what the cartoon DVD with the Do, Do, Do rollercoaster first song was? thanks

We have been using the trial version and much to my surprise my 17 month old called out Do, Re and Mi when the respective notes were shown on the staff. Totally took me by surprise as I didnt expect any recognition for at least a couple of months. Not sure if it is the colour or the position, or a combo, but how awesome still working on the pitch - she doesnt sing them, she says them but I'm very impressed with the software

thanks, yes she definitely did that. And then this afternoon she poked holes in play doh and for each hole she poked she counted 1,2,3,4,6,7 (missing the elusive 5). We will keep on practicing and maybe 5 will get included at some point

Oh that's a good idea. I don't think we quite have the ability to leave something in a line yet - she would want to play with it and examine them etc

This morning she took the gears off a toy she had. She took one off at a time and she counted for each one: 1, 2, 3, 4, (i said 5 when she took off the 5th one), 6

She totally has the concept, right?

eta I mean obviously we need a lot more practice but she is on her way

We have had some really good progress in just 1 week. We started watching Starfall numbers and counting more objects in general.

Now my daughter starts at 1 when she counts and counts once per object. Her counting is not perfect yet (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 - still missing 5), or sometimes (1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2 etc).

Previously when I asked her 'how many' of something (say a pair of shoes) she would always just say '3'. Now she counts 1, 2. Also she saw 2 little dots on something and said 2 without counting

But I am really impressed with the progress in such a short amount of time.

I meant that the 1st object is number 1, and the 2nd object is number 2 etc. Realising that counting you are counting something and each object is 1 thing

Is that called bijection?

thanks for your reply.

I do like the idea of starting slowly. And using the themes whilst playing

It seems we do have a Alliance Francaise centre in my city and they have children's classes etc, but starting from 3yo. I might get my MIL to enquire about them, as she is a French teacher for another group. It would be good to see what resources are available

Where did you buy your board books from?

I will check out the youtube link and your blog for more information

thanks!

thanks for the tip. I might try that out and see how it goes

Oh those look like great ideas to try! I'm going to have to start making a list. I've come across so many fantastic ideas today that my brain is overloaded

thanks again!

No i haven't concentrated on teaching numerals as yet. She is exposed to them and can recognise an 8, but that is all so far. I wasn't sure if teaching them would confuse her but I like the idea of putting dots on them. We also play with foam letters and numbers in the bath but I haven't gotten them all out yet, just 1, 2, 3. I might put some wall stickers in the bathroom. That is where we have our letter stickers and how she learnt all of her letters, so it seems to be a good environment to learn in the bath tub,

I also like the idea of counting amounts of cheerios etc. I thought about making laminated cards with circles to put the cheerios in to start off with (like their play book, which I've ordered but it hasn't arrived as yet). The card would have say a number 3 on it and 3 little circles to put the objects in.

I also bought a jigsaw that has the number on one side and the dots/objects on the other side and you have to match them up. I haven't given it to her yet but maybe I could just get out the 6 pieces needed to count 1, 2 and 3.

Is there a way to mark threads as favourites? So I can come back and read them later. I have found several fantastic ones and if I bookmark them in the browser I cannot access them from different locations. I was wondering if there was someway from within the forum to mark them as favourite and have the list displayed?

thanks again. I will try to follow the tips in the excerpts

I see Marshmallow Math is available for Kindle so I think I will buy it for my phone - nice and cheap too!

So you wouldnt worry about trying to do any other activities on non-counting based things? I thought I could include seriating and classifying. I've tried to get classifying happening before but my daughter doesnt seem to show much interest in grouping in any particular way. Maybe she is too young? I have mainly just provided coloured objects and bowls of the same colour. Or made piles of her blocks based on colour

I've never thought to let my daughter try with a joystick. I'll have to see if I can find some sort of basic moving around game on either the pc or ps3. What game did you use?

We have a ps3 but havent used it in the past year or more.