Can you rummage through your house and find all the lady bugs…or all the elephants, or hearts? Using your child’s puzzles, toys and books, find all the examples you have of a single subject matter.
“It’s interesting to compare the ways different illustrators depict the same thing,” rookie mom Becky wrote to us in an email, “and I think it helps children to learn to see various examples of trains in all the different contexts.”
When I pointed out to baby Julian that three of his different stuffed animals are all frogs and lined them up sitting next to each other, he seemed both intrigued and amused.
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We did this last night with a stuffed pig and some picture book pigs and I think Holden was a little surprised.
What a fabulous idea! I am going to call my sis-in-law and tell her to do this with my nephew – really cool!
my son thinks that a pig snort is hilarious so he immediately figured out how to do it and now will snort on command if i ask what a pig says. all excited about this, i found all the pig related things we have in the house and realized they look super different than each other. so i took him to a petting zoo so he could see the real thing. he loved it and it’s started him snorting even more! haha. i think putting all the related animals together to look at at once is a fantastic idea! something to do tomorrow!
Love this tip!! This might actually help with our latest arguments that go something like this:
R: What’s this?
Me: A volkswagon.
R: IT NOT A VOLKSWAGON!!!!
Me: Yes, it is!
R: NOT! NOT A VOLKSWAGON!!!
Me: What? Why? What do you think it is?
R (in disgust): It a CAR, MUM.