Shapes and Colours Activities for Toddlers: Before Tracing Even Start | EarlyChildhoodEduNet Shapes and Colours Activities for Toddlers: Before Tracing Even Start The morning I put a pencil away I sat my youngest down with a tracing worksheet one morning, one of the same story-based pages her older sister loved at that age, and within…
Math Games for Kids: What the Research Actually Says About Play-Based Learning Math Games for Kids: What the Research Actually Says About Play-Based Learning A cheap board game and a two-week study that changed how researchers thought about early maths In 2007, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University ran a study that’s still cited constantly in…
Shape Activities for Kids at Home: Building Real Geometry Skills Through Play Shape Activities for Kids at Home: Building Real Geometry Skills Through Play The moment my daughter insisted a square wasn’t a square I held up a square piece of paper, turned it slightly so it sat on one corner instead of flat on…
Number Sense Activities: Helping Children Understand Quantities and How Numbers Relate Number Sense Activities: Helping Children Understand Quantities and How Numbers Relate The argument that taught me more than any worksheet could My girls once had a full scale disagreement over a bowl of grapes. Not about the grapes themselves, about who had more of…
Number Activities for Kids at Home: Building the Full Toolkit of Early Number Activities for Kids at Home: Building the Full Toolkit Why “number activities” is bigger than just counting When people ask me about number activities, most of them are really only thinking about counting. Can my child count to ten, can they count…
Pattern Activities for Kids at Home: Teaching Little Learners to Predict What Comes Next Pattern Activities for Kids at Home: Teaching Little Learners to Predict What Comes Next It started with a game my daughters invented, not one I taught them My girls used to play a game on the walk to the letterbox. One…
Counting Activities for Kids at Home: How Daily Routines Build Number Confidence Counting Activities for Kids at Home: How Daily Routines Build Number Confidence The problem started with something I noticed at home When my two girls were young, I spent a lot of time thinking about how children learn. At the same time, I…
How to Make Learning Fun: A Nature Scavenger Hunt for Early Childhood Development | EarlyChildhoodEduNet Learning at Home A Nature Scavenger Hunt That Doesn’t Need a Backyard On footpath weeds, borrowed time, and what actually counts as nature. No backyard, no garden, no time The place we lived in my first year in Melbourne was…