This week our neighborhood had ‘Touch a Truck Day’, which is a time when all city vehicles (police, army, fire, ambulances, ice cream trucks, etc.) are on display for the kids to climb in and pretend to drive. The kids love going and sitting in the ambulances and the police cars. This year there was a real fireman hose and the kids got to put out a pretend fire with the real hose – clearly the highlight this year for them. For me the best part was the mobile police headquarter van, which was straight out of any heist movie you’ve ever seen. Super cool. Anyway, at the event the girls were given, among other things, rulers and they were dying to use them. So after they got up from their naps on touch a truck day I set out to teach them how to use a ruler. This is a great and fun way to practice visual number recognition (versus rote counting) and addition. I point out each number from 1 to 12 along the ruler to the kids. Th...
I am teaching my kids everything from math to reading to manners, and blogging about our weekly thinking cap adventures.