Tuesday, April 10, 2012

What's the word?

Day 28: Teach your child a new word.

Our word today that we worked on was "between."  My soon to be sister-in-law is going to college for early childhood education and had to do a development study on a preschool aged child.  She did it on my son after Easter dinner, he did awesome with the different tasks.  He had trouble explaining to her and I what was between.  He knew above, under, next to, and on top of; but not between.  So today I took that opportunity to focus more on this word.  We started by just practicing saying it.  I love hearing him try to say a new word that he doesn't think he can say.  After practicing to say it I started using it in context over and over and over!  Later I asked him if he knew what "between" means.  He knew it but when I asked about 4 items he didn't know which one was between.  Yeah, yeah, this was kind of tricky but I wanted to test him.  We then watched this video.  He loved it and we watched it a lot and by the 3rd or 4th time we knew the song and were able to sing it with the video.  We had so much fun doing this and I love teaching my children!

This is an old picture but G man was 7 weeks old at our college graduation.  He was between us!!!!

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