Kids Coop - numbers

 
<center> <a href="http://www.tamingthegoblin.com/search/label/kids%20coop"></p> <p> <font color="#808080" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/FkLk8.jpg" title="Hosted by imgur.com" alt="" /></a></font></p> <p> <font color="#808080" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></center> Its Kids Coop time again, please link up your kids orientated posts and check out what others have been up to. This week I'm linking the following:

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(Goblin is 43 months)

Goblin can count but he doesn't know his number symbols. He is also not particularly interesting in learning them. I know a lot of children do know them by now but I don't think he will be damaged by getting there later than some. But I am trying to ensure that he is exposed to them regularly through play. 

And the other day I found a perfect opportunity. I laid out some handkerchiefs that I'd stuck sticky black felt numbers and corresponding dots to. Goblin was playing with his truck and I asked him if he could make some deliveries.

I told him each person was at a garage and they needed the right number of flat marbles delivered to their unit. He happily took the challenge and drove his truck round. I voiced the little people giving him instructions to leave the marbles and helping him count out the right number.

He did a great job with the low numbers, but by the time he reached the bigger ones he realised he could just leave a pile of marbles and get the little people to take as many as they needed. I tried insisting that the delivery driver needed to take back the extra ones, but he wasn't falling for it. Bt it wasn't a total bust because we still got to talk about the numbers.

And now to the linky.

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