What are you doing with your 2 year olds for math?

[Kerileanne99]

Did I mention FREE book downloads are among some of my favorites!

I came across this fantastic vintage book of simple math stories for children when I was looking for other books similar to MathStart...we have started playing with it, and planning quick demonstrations (she is in charge of teaching her stuffed hen!) as we go... Gets progressively harder but starts at counting!

http://archive.org/details/everydaynumbers00longgoog

[nadia0801]

Keri, I MUST see a pic of her stuffed hen. It's getting famous now

Thank you for the link to the books! I cannot get Mathstart here in my country though I desperately want it! I'm constantly looking for a children's book that my daughter will read on her own that teaches math. Thanks again!

[Kerileanne99]

Nadia0801-
There must be a way to make it my little picture   I will see what I can do!

Have you tried the Life of Fred math books? They are SO much fun, Apples has Alex giggling, although there are still things I have to do some pre-work on before we read a chapter!

[aangeles]

@ nadia0801,

I was just going to suggest the Life of Fred books. They are quite silly and should be right up Cammie's alley. Ella loves them. I have seen them in National bookstore in paperback.

[Mandabplus3]

Nadia here are the math start books with free world wide delivery
http://www.bookdepository.com/search?searchTerm=Stuart+Murphy&search=search
I grabbed some from the library today and my kids devoured them! Jaykob happily counted out, even the level 3 books. Don't bother buying any about money as obviously it is in another currency.
The library doesn't have many sadly

[nadia0801]

Thank you so much for the info aangeles and Mandabplus3! Isn't this the happiest forum ever

[nee1]

Did I mention FREE book downloads are among some of my favorites!
I came across this fantastic vintage book of simple math stories for children when I was looking for other books similar to MathStart...

http://archive.org/details/everydaynumbers00longgoog

Keri, thank you so so much for this book. It looks very good. I'll print it out and we'll use it as part of our read aloud. Please keep posting whatever excellent but free books you find, especially those from archive.org. I love free books too.

Thank you, thank you, and thank you.  I'm very grateful.

[Kerileanne99]

Today we had SOOO much fun playing math, for one very simple reason:

We bought number stamps!

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Resources-Jumbo-Numbers-Operations/dp/B0007CXGZW/ref=lh_ni_t

Alex seems to want to fly in math, but has really been held back from so much of what she wants to do by her inability to write her numbers well...even the ones she can do turn the math lesson into more of a handwriting lesson, with her getting upset because she wants to do 'Maff'.  RS is great that you can use the abacus to show answers and tally sticks, but she often wants to do other parts of various math supplements, and doesn't like to have to tell me the answers on the JJ worksheets-she wants to do it.

Also, she LOVES using the 1-stamp to make her RS tally marks! She can do those by hand, BUT....some are a cm long whilst some seem to approach twice that She is such a perfectionist that this will give us some breathing room and time to work on her handwriting without losing her love of math.

[Kerileanne99]

I happened to be revisiting Ellen MCHenry's Basement Workshop site regarding her Elements book today, and came across one of her free downloads for math...so much fun! She has written a series of games and adventures of Professor Pig, to teach LOs their math facts up to ten...I thought some might like to take a look. Whilst you are there, take a look at all her other free downloads and materials. Some really great ideas.

http://www.ellenjmchenry.com/homeschool-freedownloads/math-games/professorpigmath.php

[Mandabplus3]

I love this site! its truly full of wonderful stuff! love the brain hat! so cool.
 I have tried twice but I cant open the professer pig files. 

[Kerileanne99]

Manda-
I had trouble doing it on my computer as well. There is a note at the bottom of the downloads page about updating browsers, Adobe,etc., and whilst I didn't want to deal with that in the wee hours of the morning, I tried opening them on my IPad and into the Kindle App...
SUCCESS!   (it was rather slow...)

[Kerileanne99]

Hooray!
Website with a fantastic list of favorite fun-filled books to read to children on math ideas, organized by topic and level!
http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/math-for-kids.html

[Mandabplus3]

OH wow! Wow! WOW! What a find! Do go and check this link out! These books are actually readily available! Love it! Thank you!

[nee1]

To everyone who's used Singapore EarlyBird Kindergarten series with toddlers and prewriting kids, please how did you modify the exercises to your prewriting kids?

 I've seen samples of the book here (http://www.singaporemath.com/Earlybird_Kindergarten_Math_STD_Ed_Txbk_A_p/ebstdta.htm) and here, (http://www.christianbook.com/earlybird-kindergarten-math-textbook-a/9780761470151/pd/470151?item_code=WW&netp_id=830372&event=ESRCG&view=details). And it appears to require a lot of penmanship which tiny kids may not be able to handle yet.

And I found that Singapore even has another Kindergarten book called 'Essential Math Kindergarten A and B' (http://www.singaporemath.com/Singapore_Math_Essential_Math_Kindergarten_A_p/emka.htm) .  I googled to find what parents say the differences between EarlyBird  and Essential Math was, and most parents said they prefered Essential Math over EarlyBird as it was cheaper (I love cheaper), more straight to the point, and their child liked it more. Most of those kids were aged 4 and above, hence they were able to deal with the extensive writing required.

 I have checked for samples of Essential Math here (http://www.christianbook.com/essential-math-kindergarten-a/9781932906141/pd/906141?product_redirect=1&Ntt=906141&item_code=&Ntk=keywords&event=ESRCP). Again it requires a lot of penmanship. Granted, the child may know the right answers to questions asked but because the writing is not there yet, I get confused on what to do. Kerileanne99  has mentioned number stamps, but apart from that, what else would one need to use the book with a prewriting child? How about the tracing and coloring required?

In summary my questions are:

1) Please how did you modify exercises in EarlyBird for prewriting kids?
2) Would you prefer Essential Math over EarlyBird? If yes, why? If no, why?
3) I like Essential (it's cheaper and had more positive reviews), but it seems to require a lot of writing and tracing one line to the other, something the child may not be able to do yet. Any recommendations on how I could solve that problem?

Thank you so much for your responses. I am grateful for any suggestions.

[Korrale4kq]

First I like to butcher my books. I rip out all the pages. Then I do several things. I go though the pages with James and have him just answer me verbally.
Or I slip the pages into plastic protector sleeves and he tries to write on them with dry erase marker or crayon.
I also have a set of wooden numerals and I have James select the numeral for me as he says it. Sometimes I write in answers he gives me.
I also use little magnetic numbers. I lay the worksheet onto a cookie sheet (most are magnetic) then I have him put the magnetic numeral where it needs to go.

I do want to get stamps like Kerileanne suggested too.

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