Bible: The Beginner's Bible
To be used judicuously with a grown-up version without pictures. Start in the beginning and read aloud. Genesis is a very interesting book, you know.
Also, The Equuschick uses (sparingly, it actually starts at kindergarten grade) a very fabulous homestudy curriculum called "Our Spiritual Heritage" that she can't find a link to at Amazon, but you should google it.1-2-3s, ABCs, Shapes, Coulours & Etc. Sidewalk chalk. A sidewalk. Rocks, dandelions, etc. A dry-erase board and marker, for rainy days. Directions for all of the above: Draw a square, circle, and triangle on the sidewalk. Tell a small person to jump in the middle of the square, the circle, and the triangle. Draw numbers. Put three rocks by the 3 and etc. Draw letters on the sidewalk, have little person help you draw them. Jump on them too. If the two year old can jump on it, the two year old will love it.
Mouse Paint
Adorable little book that speaks for itself. Ya'll should get it. "Once there were three mice who lived on a white piece of paper..." and then they fall into jars of paint and become a red mouse, a blue mouse, and a yellow mouse. Then they dance in the puddles and mix up the paint. You can read this one while the little person paints and it is a lot of fun. (What? Did the little person spill the paint? Of course not. The Equuschick spilled the paint. It is the story of her life.)Ten Terrible Dinosaurs (Picture Puffins)
Dinosaurs and numbers. Self-explanatory.A to Z
To be used side-by-side with the sidewalk chalk or the dry-erase board.
Misc. ducks don't get wet
Chickens Aren't the Only Ones (World of Nature Series)
Inflatable Earth Globe Beach Ball 16" -Blue Oceans
Ok, this is not actually what the DPG has. But it was The Equuschick wishes she had purchased instead of the small animals of the world globe. If you ever run across that, don't get it. The print is practically illegible and the pictures of the animals are awful. You have to squint and sometimes you still can't tell what you're looking at.USA Place Mat
To be used with stickers or photographs. Where do you live? Put a sticker there. Where do your relatives live? Put a sticker there.Well, anyway. That's what The Equuschick uses to keep the DPG busy. What do you use?
Puzzles. Alphabet puzzles. Number puzzles. Firetruck puzzles (self-explanatory).
ReplyDeleteThe alphabet puzzle is sometimes used as just a puzzle (dump pieces in heap and assemble), and sometimes I "assign" a group of letters or hand him letters one at a time. Once it's assembled, we go through and read the letters.
With the number puzzles, we sometimes put the pieces together and sometimes just sort them. Other times we pair pieces with the appropriate number of coins/beans/small objects.
We also use Starfall.com for letters, and I google "counting games" for online number practice. If it moves, he likes it.
We use number and alphabet picture books for review and assessment.
Oh I do love Mouse Paint! Sweet little book!
ReplyDeleteAlphabet Under Construction by Denise Fleming, jellybeans for counting practice, tempera paints for colors and color mixing, food coloring, pipettes, and glasses of water for fine motor skills. color mixing, and distraction, Press Here by Herve Tullet for following directions and fun, How Do Dinosaurs Count To Ten? by Jane Yolen and a few nearly wordless books like The Knight and the Dragon by Tomie de Paola or Goodnight Gorilla because he likes to pretend to read these to me, his dad, his grandparents, or the dog.
ReplyDeleteMy guy is 3 though.
'colour kittens' by Margaret Wise Brown, is another fantastic colour book, similar to the one you described. Two little kittens start out with 3 cans of paint, and by spilling them together, create the other colours.
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