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First Math Lesson

I mentioned two days ago that Levi had a little "school" time on the couch.  This is more about training him to sit quietly with me than it is to learn academic skills (and, about training me to schedule focused activities into our day!).  Here's what we did:

I brought to the couch a muffin tin, number magnets 1-6, and a small bowl of colored pompoms (the same ones we've used before to sort by color).

I asked Levi to come sit on the couch with me.  He was intrigued enough to obey.

We spoke (okay, I spoke, but he counted along with his fingers) the rhyme "1, 2, Buckle My Shoe" two times.  (He likes to show numbers 1-5 with his fingers, so we've been trying to teach him how to do 6-9.  It's tricky, doing different numbers in each hand.)

I had him put one number in each muffin tin (well, six of the twelve), in order.

Then we tried to put the same number of pompoms in each tin as the number it contained.  This is the hard part for Levi.  He loves matching things up 1:1, so he really wanted to put one pompom in each tin and be done.  I ended up doing most of them, but by number 5 he caught on and did a few himself.  We did this twice, though he paused to rearrange the numbers in the tins before the second time.



We finished by speaking the "Buckle My Shoe" rhyme one more time.  The whole thing took about ten minutes.  I intended to put our supplies away immediately, but he wanted to stay on the couch moving pompoms around some more.  Fine with me!  :)

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