Learning Activities

[SammiBaby]

I have been trying to find home activites to help my little one learn. He's 3 and granted he knows a lot of stuff I'd love for him to be more into learning numbers and letters. I find it more difficult to get him to get interested in those type of things. He seems to be the type of kid who is more interested with the mechanics of things. Always trying to figure out how things work not which letter of the alphabet is next in line after D.

I have been trying to compile a good list of activities that I can use to help him learn these things he's having more difficulties with. Are there any other moms who are or have gone through this and if so what you did to help the situation.

All help and tips are much appreciated.

[LavenderMom23]

You really have to focus on just one letter or number a day at this age. Sing ABC song and ask him to sing along, he does sing, he won't catch on. 10 Little Indian song/ type songs for numbers. 

[MamaToLucas]

You really don't need to push that stuff at 3 :) Let him do what he's interested in...let him be 3 :)

[SammiBaby]

Thanks to both posts. I guess I just let what I see going on around me corrupt my mind on what my son should be doing or learning. I see many many 2 year olds with better vocabulary and such and I've just been worried that maybe he should be at their level. I keep forgetting I need to let him grow at his own pace and stop looking at the children around me.

[Mandiii04]

Quoting SammiBaby:

Thanks to both posts. I guess I just let what I see going on around me corrupt my mind on what my son should be doing or learning. I see many many 2 year olds with better vocabulary and such and I've just been worried that maybe he should be at their level. I keep forgetting I need to let him grow at his own pace and stop looking at the children around me.

My 3 year old is FAR behind in his speech, but he is super smart. He is mechanical like yours.  Every day I try to teach him something. Every moment is an opportunity to learn.  He picks up quickly on things, like he can count to 14, but he only knows the color blue. Every other color is purple. lol.  And with his ABC's, he knows O.  That's it.  He sings the ABC song with me, well attempts to, and he wants to learn more.  It just takes patience and willingness to participate on your son's part.  If he's not interested, he'll hate trying to learn.  My son is starting to speak spanish (from Dora)... maybe some secretly educational videos would work?

[MamaToLucas]

Way to go :) I mean, if he's actually way behind in milestones, that's one thing. But comparing him to babies/toddlers whose parents have pushed/encouraged letters and numbers and stuff will only frustrate you AND him.

Quoting SammiBaby:

Thanks to both posts. I guess I just let what I see going on around me corrupt my mind on what my son should be doing or learning. I see many many 2 year olds with better vocabulary and such and I've just been worried that maybe he should be at their level. I keep forgetting I need to let him grow at his own pace and stop looking at the children around me.

[JenniL05]

My son is also 3 and he knows most letters and what they stand for and he can even write and recognize his own name. He has one of those computer games that teach letters which has helped him a lot but mainly I just talk to him constantly. "Max look at this letter, it's an A for Apple." We are always talking about everything since Max is a little explorer. He has to know what everything is. Just keep reiterating to him what you want him to learn and he will pick it up no problem. My son has no interest in flash cards so we've never used them...just "real world" learning. ;)

[NikLvsNick]

 My son is 4 and we are still working on the ABC's. He knows about half the letters on sight. Tho I tried this game with him. I hold up 3 cards each with a differnet letter on them and ask him which one is letter a, b and so on. He likes that game a lot and it gets him interested.

[NikLvsNick]

 Oh and I make up a little song if we are just working on one letter. Like with letter A we sing "A for apple, A for acorn, A for Allie (that's his sister's nickname) A, A, A. B for bear, B for baby, B for bumblebee. B, B, B. and so on and so forth. He likes it when I sing too.