[5 Year Old HATES Handwriting]

8 hours ago, MotherGoose said:

Meanwhile get him doing all the fun fine motor stuff other people mentioned in play. It also helped mine to write on dry erase boards, sidewalk chalk, etc versus pencil and paper.

Dry erase boards and side walk chalk are good ideas. This reminded me of how crazy kids go over drawing on sidewalks, I'll try it with my child too. 

[How to Teach Counting to a 3 y.o.]

11 hours ago, AnneGG said:

I was totally the mom doing totschool with my 2 year old, so I completely understand wanting to do lessons with a young child. I have loads of activity recommendations, but the bottom line is  to just focus on fun and input. I don’t put any pressure on kids that young to give me answers/output. 
 

Before Five in a Row is really relaxed and gentle totschool/preschool program that doesn’t require output. 

Thank you for the suggestion! I will look at Before Five in a Row. 

[How to Teach Counting to a 3 y.o.]

17 hours ago, Not_a_Number said:

I like teaching my kids to count, but I'd absolutely do it with actual objects or in fun counting books 🙂 . And I'd show them how to show numbers on their fingers -- that's a useful ability. I tend to unconsciously model it because I'll show numbers on my fingers, too. 

Great idea! I'll try to model counting more too. 

[How to Teach Counting to a 3 y.o.]

19 hours ago, sweet2ndchance said:

Gently, yes, she is doing it on purpose. She is trying to show you that she is not quite ready for this kind of work. She will get there but right now, she's not ready and she avoids it as a result. She needs time and more practice with real life situations

That is called rote counting and is a completely different skill than one-to-one correspondence or matching numerals to sets.

It's great that she likes worksheets but they really are not developmentally appropriate for a 3yo. At her age, if she wants a worksheet to do, then great print her some preschool or kindergarten worksheets to do but I wouldn't worry about her completing them. Let her do as much as she wants or  as little as she wants. Right now, counting everything in her world (steps, chairs, plates, birds, dolls...) is developmentally appropriate. The Preschool Math at Home book mentioned above is awesome and full of developmentally appropriate math activities that a 3 or 4 yo would love to do.

Thank you for the detailed advice! I purchased the book, but I think we will actually give counting a break. I tried counting giraffes on her playmat last night after reading everyone's advice, poker cards that she was playing with, and fish from a fishing game, and she was completely avoidant of that too. 

[How to Teach Counting to a 3 y.o.]

1 hour ago, Arctic Bunny said:

Besides regular day-to-day counting (how many plates do we need? Can you find two blue blocks for the tower? How many eggs in the cake? How many legs does the (animal/insect in picture) have?), the most intentional counting I can remember doing is up and down steps (which I later used for negative numbers) and hopscotch.

These are great ideas! Thank you! 

[How to Teach Counting to a 3 y.o.]

19 hours ago, medawyn said:

Kate Snow’s book Preschool Math at Home

Thank you for the suggestion! I bought it last night on Amazon. 

[How to Teach Counting to a 3 y.o.]

Sorry! 😦 I just figured out how to attach pictures. Here it is: 

[How to Teach Counting to a 3 y.o.]

Help! I think my daughter has an aversion to counting. Below is an Imgur link of her morning work. She is able to count above three when I work with her, but when she is doing work independently, she avoids any number above three. In other words, I think she's doing this on purpose, because she knows what four items looks like and can count five if she tries. Also, when she doesn't have to do one-to-one counting, she can recite #1-10 just fine. Her overall attitude to worksheets is positive (except for counting), and likes to try worksheets such as tracing, matching, and circling. 

What's going on? 

https://imgur.com/a/iUqjjYA