Okay, here's the background info:
In general, I like math programs such as RightStart, Montessori, and Waldorf-style. Hands-on and active stuff based on true conceptual comprehension, not just rote memorizing or repetition.
My daughter is 3 (just turned a couple weeks ago) and seems (so far) to have some giftedness. I totally do not want to rush, push, or over-academicize (is that a word? lol) her schooling. She's young, she can wait. I did too much too soon with DS, and learned that lesson very well. Play, play, play... draw, create, imagine, craft, run, jump, dance. Most of her playthings are "educational" in a Montessori or Waldorf sense, not in a Baby Einstein sense heh...
But, like I said, she's got some giftedness and is ASKING to do stuff. She LOVES worksheets. She is reading simple 3-letter words. She is counting objects beyond what a 3yo "should" be able to count, and even doing things like "there are 7 french fries... what if I put one more on the plate? Now there are... 8 french fries!" She is starting to write letters too (can do m, i, c, o, v, does a decent job at 'a' and 'd' and 'h'...) and numbers.
So far, she has done worksheets along the lines of... circle the object that is bigger, colour the objects that match. Colour 3 of the balls blue. She loves cut-and-paste worksheets.
I printed out a sample from... uh, I think from Math Mammoth, where it was something like, here are 5 items, circle 3 in one group, how many are in the other group and circle those. She did those perfectly and was excited about it.
ANYWAY. We have RightStart A, and I've done a few things from there, but she's really too young for most of it. I'd love to find something that's intended for preschoolers but that isn't overly academic... most 'preschool math' that I found is either too repetitive or too easy for her, but the kindergarten stuff is too advanced. She's in an in-between no-mans-land lol...
I don't need for her to 'learn' from it, really... just for it to be something amusing for her that practices what she can do, maybe stretching her a bit. Something for an 'average' 4yo would probably be good.
I'm aware of Singapore EarlyBird, but looking through online samples, it looks like the same old stuff, no different than any other standard math program really.
And I'm also aware of math games and real-life math and all that... we do that too, I know it's "more" important than worksheets, etc etc, preaching to the choir here. It's just that I have a kid who is ASKING for worksheets so I'd like to give her some... just something APPROPRIATE.
I love the Waldorf math approach, but they don't start until age 7 so the pace is different and not appropriate for a 3yo, gifted or no...
Any ideas?
In general, I like math programs such as RightStart, Montessori, and Waldorf-style. Hands-on and active stuff based on true conceptual comprehension, not just rote memorizing or repetition.
My daughter is 3 (just turned a couple weeks ago) and seems (so far) to have some giftedness. I totally do not want to rush, push, or over-academicize (is that a word? lol) her schooling. She's young, she can wait. I did too much too soon with DS, and learned that lesson very well. Play, play, play... draw, create, imagine, craft, run, jump, dance. Most of her playthings are "educational" in a Montessori or Waldorf sense, not in a Baby Einstein sense heh...
But, like I said, she's got some giftedness and is ASKING to do stuff. She LOVES worksheets. She is reading simple 3-letter words. She is counting objects beyond what a 3yo "should" be able to count, and even doing things like "there are 7 french fries... what if I put one more on the plate? Now there are... 8 french fries!" She is starting to write letters too (can do m, i, c, o, v, does a decent job at 'a' and 'd' and 'h'...) and numbers.
So far, she has done worksheets along the lines of... circle the object that is bigger, colour the objects that match. Colour 3 of the balls blue. She loves cut-and-paste worksheets.
I printed out a sample from... uh, I think from Math Mammoth, where it was something like, here are 5 items, circle 3 in one group, how many are in the other group and circle those. She did those perfectly and was excited about it.
ANYWAY. We have RightStart A, and I've done a few things from there, but she's really too young for most of it. I'd love to find something that's intended for preschoolers but that isn't overly academic... most 'preschool math' that I found is either too repetitive or too easy for her, but the kindergarten stuff is too advanced. She's in an in-between no-mans-land lol...
I don't need for her to 'learn' from it, really... just for it to be something amusing for her that practices what she can do, maybe stretching her a bit. Something for an 'average' 4yo would probably be good.
I'm aware of Singapore EarlyBird, but looking through online samples, it looks like the same old stuff, no different than any other standard math program really.
And I'm also aware of math games and real-life math and all that... we do that too, I know it's "more" important than worksheets, etc etc, preaching to the choir here. It's just that I have a kid who is ASKING for worksheets so I'd like to give her some... just something APPROPRIATE.
I love the Waldorf math approach, but they don't start until age 7 so the pace is different and not appropriate for a 3yo, gifted or no...
Any ideas?
She also doesn't like writing her numbers over and over and over--this doesn't have much of that (some, but not much).
