As grandparents, we’re used to early wake-up calls when Daisy visits us. The fleeting peace of the morning is broken by my granddaughter's demands for a story, or for us to witness her play acting as a dragon. Last weekend she bounced excitedly into our bedroom to inform us that “the thing in the bathroom”… Continue reading Building preschool mathematics: from 1 to 100
Category: Mathematics
Mathematics involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems; and to describe shapes, spaces, and measure.
The Value Of Simple Board Games For Young Children
Now that we're not all dashing about with appointments and work commitments we're all finding we have more time to do things. And although Daisy's Mummy and Daddy have plenty to do each day with their various schedules, taking turns to participate in Daisy's home learning gives them more time with Daisy each day than… Continue reading The Value Of Simple Board Games For Young Children
Counting on repetition: helping your grandchild to master numbers
Daisy first started to learn about numbers from rhymes and action songs then last year she started to watch Numberblocks programmes on Cbeebies. This series of programmes has really improved Daisy's understanding of numbers. Over recent months, with the help of Mummy, Daddy and her childminder, Daisy has learnt the names of numbers up to… Continue reading Counting on repetition: helping your grandchild to master numbers
Conkers for Counting
This week the fine Autumn weather tempted us to the local park with Daisy, while Mummy and Daddy did more boring things at home. As Daisy ran along the tree-lined path to the playground a strong gust of wind shook the branches overhead and conkers dropped from the sky, one bouncing of Daisy’s head (no… Continue reading Conkers for Counting
Going Shopping to Develop Writing and Counting Skills
Writing The skill of writing develops over several years and young children first learn about writing by observing adults writing. A few months ago we started to introduce Daisy to the process of writing by including her in one of our routine activities that requires writing We explained that we were going to go shopping… Continue reading Going Shopping to Develop Writing and Counting Skills
Pumpkin maths
Have you noticed the array of pumpkins and colourful squashes at your supermarket or greengrocers? And have you bought some to decorate your home or your doorstep? Pumpkins and squashes are brilliant additions to our homes at this time of the year and you can also share them with your young grandchild. Before you even… Continue reading Pumpkin maths
The Language of Numbers
Daisy uses a mixture of signing, gestures and speaking to communicate with us. She's started to put two words together to make little sentences like "Where ball?" and with her intonations we're able to understand. Then last week I spotted Daisy tracing one of her fingers around her palm saying "Round, around" and adding "One",… Continue reading The Language of Numbers
Granny Smith's Diary 