Here is an easy way to teach your children how to remember the “greater than” and “less than” symbols in their Math lesson!
First, draw one of the symbols, like this:
Now, make that symbol into a big fish’s mouth like this:
The fish has a BIG mouth that loves to eat the most he can get: the largest numbers. So the big, open part of the mouth always faces the largest number.
Question:My kids are having a hard time in reading and writing lower case “b” and “d” and are always mixing them up. How do you help kids keep this straight?
I teach them “b”. Leave “d” alone—it will take care of itself once they learn “b”.
Every day I walk in the river bottoms, across the road and down the country lane from my house. It is so breathtakingly beautiful and peaceful there. I am all alone, and very rarely see another person in the 45 minutes that I am wandering through cornfields and along the banks of the river. What I do see, however, is wildlife! As I come home and describe what I have seen to my children, they take great interest in each day’s discovery. I have even taken them along, one by one, in hopes that they might happen upon the red fox and her 2 babies frolicking in the morning sunshine, as I once did.
There’s work to be done when you raise a family! It is possible, however, to turn time spent in routine chores into time well invested in helping a child practice skills or building memories. Have you tried the “Mary Poppins’ Method”? I don’t think a spoonful of sugar is very healthy for making the medicine […]
