How to teach shapes to a preschooler
Shapes are a looking skill before they are a naming one. What to do first, the order that helps, and why it matters for reading later.
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Shapes, colours and counting
One skill runs under all of these: noticing that two things are the same, or that they are not. Naming comes last, and it arrives on its own once the noticing is solid.
Teaching colours: what to do before the names
Children sort by colour long before they can name one. The order that works, the question to stop asking, and one thing worth ruling out.
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Counting games for three and four year olds
Saying the numbers and counting things are two different skills. Here is the gap between them, and the games that close it.
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What memory and matching games actually teach
Not a better memory. Something more useful than that, and a clear reason to start with four cards rather than twenty.
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Teaching a preschooler about recycling
Skip the planet. At three and four, recycling is a sorting game with a real bin at the end, and that is enough.
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