Learning to Learn….

April 14, 2010 By Cassandra
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It’s so hard not to compare your children. Miss Frugal was so eager to learn and Master Frugal has, up until recently, shown no interest at all in learning to write. I’m not worried too much as he’s only just turned five but I have been a bit stuck for ideas on what I could do to help him learn.

All of a sudden it seems to have clicked a bit for him. He wants to learn and over the last couple of weeks he has gone from a unrecognisable scribble to being able to write his name reasonably clearly.

I keep trying to get him to pick out letters from the words we see everywhere and for the first time he is taking an interest and can recognise a few of the letters so we decided to go on an alphabet walk this afternoon.

I wrote all of the letters of the alphabet in his best Ben 10 notebook, armed him with a pen and we set off….

We had fun ticking off as many letters as we could and would you believe the letter we saw most off was apparently K.

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Jen · 781 weeks ago

Thats a fantastic idea, I am filing that one away for future use :D Jen.

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themadhouse · 781 weeks ago

What a lovely idea, my two are far too eager to learn! Mini read audiology at the hospital this afternoon!

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magicmummy · 781 weeks ago

have fun with it x

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magicmummy · 781 weeks ago

I think that's why I've found it a bit hard with him because my little girl
was so early to do everything. He's on his way now though ;-)

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PrincessL · 781 weeks ago

That is an ingenious idea!

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magicmummy · 781 weeks ago

Thanks ;-)

It's kind of what the school do but they just set them one or two letters
every week or so and the children have to see where they can see it in the
house.

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Notes From Lapland · 781 weeks ago

oh that's clever! and the letter K, really? am now trying to think of all the things that start with K now.

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Notes From Lapland · 781 weeks ago

ahhh, that'll be it then

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magicmummy · 781 weeks ago

Lol - I live near a village called Kirkleatham Village, it has a museum
called Kirkleatham Museum and the road leading up to it is Kirkleatham Lane -
I suppose K was inevitable really ;-)

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Single Motherhood Challenges · 781 weeks ago

Excellent idea! Its wonderful watching our children develop isnt it, and being able to assist them :D

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magicmummy · 781 weeks ago

I know, I love knowing that I've taught them something - It'll be the other way round in no time though lol

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Jules · 781 weeks ago

In my experience boys are more or less always less enthusiastic that girls when it comes to reading or writing (esp when they are younger). They key is to find something that ignights their imagination and the Ben 10 book is a fab start.

The boys I work with love football and cooking and so I base a lot of the literacy activities around that. We read through recipes, write our own recipes and even make them some times. So they almost don't know they're learning.

I'm on The Book People website at the moment and there is some great books for boys of all ages.

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magicmummy · 781 weeks ago

Hi

Thanks for your comments. I would definitely agree that boys are less
interested in learning and I'm pleased that he's getting a bit more interested
now ;-)

That's a really good idea about the recipes as he loves to bake with me - I
think we'll be writing a simple recipe in his Ben 10 book soon.

Thanks again, I really appreciate your ideas and thoughts x

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magicmummy · 781 weeks ago

I'm off to the book people website now to check it out ;-)

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Muddling Along Mummy · 781 weeks ago

That's a great idea - am going to note that one down for the future

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magicmummy · 781 weeks ago

Have fun x

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Luschka · 779 weeks ago

an alphabet walk? What a great idea! I love the thought of making education fun.

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Magic Mummy · 778 weeks ago

We needed to try making it fun to get him interested - seems to have done the trick as well ;-)

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