As our four-year-old son works to polish off his mastery of numbers 1-10, his preschool teacher recommended we spend extra time helping him with the most frequent offenders: numbers 6, 8 and 9. While brainstorming a way to help him keep clear on the symbols that represent six, eight and nine, I came up with the following:
Mr. Six
Mrs. Eight
Mr. Nine
How do you (or did you) teach your children to memorize their numbers???
2 Comments
November 19, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Through repetition, but you my lady are awesome. Those are really cool rhymes.
November 20, 2008 at 9:58 am
I agree, very cool idea. I think the visual combined with the spoken rhyme is particularly helpful to come at it from a couple of angles.
I don’t remember! My little dude of course doesn’t know his numbers, but his older sister (6 years) sings the numbers in her own little happy song sometimes, so I am wondering if the others just taught each other… but how did I teach the first? It was so long ago!