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Question

of providing and itemized list of the household equipment that can be used as a home learning tool and how you would use each of them ..

Answer 1

Here are some things I did with our children when they were pre-school age.  Hope they help.

To teach colors and help with dexterity --

Buy a bag of colored popcorn and pour some into a small bowl. Place it on the table along with a muffin tin.  Have the child sort the different colors into each section of the muffin tin and name the colors.

To teach counting & number recognition --

Give the child a deck of playing cards and ask the child to sort by putting all the 1's in a pile, 2's in another pile and so on.  The child could also lay the cards out in a row by number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on.

Another idea for counting & number recognition --

Cut  2 old pages from a calendar.  Leave 1 page intact.  Cut the squares apart on the second page.  Have the child place the loose numbers on the page to match the numbers.  The loose numbers can also be used to place in numerical order.

To teach writing numbers, letters or name --

Spray some shaving cream on the kitchen table and smear it around.  Let the child write in it with his finger -- easily "erase" by smearing over it.

To teach sorting by category --

Cut pictures out of magazines and have child sort into groups -- animals, plants, foods, transportation, clothing, etc.

To teach printing of name --

Print the name of the child, but use short dashes -- not solid lines.  Then have the child trace over it following the dashes to write the letters, until the child learns how to form the letters.  Then you can print the name in solid letters and just have the child copy it below.