This morning Isaac was working on the alphabet. I would like to say that I have all of these organized "lesson plans" for teaching (codeword for keeping him busy and engaged, often independently), but in fact most of our learning fun is very organic and either comes through play or brainstorming with craft materials.
So, we have this big tub of foam letters that are sticky-backed. What do you do with a couple hundred foam letters? Hmmm...first of all, dump about 1/3 of them onto a cookie tray (to contain the mess). Second, let Isaac randomly rummage through the letters and stick them on a big sheet of paper. Finally, brainstorm! I copied numbers and letters onto a sheet of paper and he searched through the pile of letters for the corresponding figure to stick on top of the tracings.
This kept him interested for about an hour; complete with "happy dance" on the chair whenever he was able to find a letter and stick it on himself.
I love seeing Isaac really dig into fun activities like this. Another favorite of his is playing with little beads--stringing them onto yarn or pipe cleaners, counting them, sorting into different containers, etc.
He also likes pretend play; today we played "post office" with him bringing his wallet (my cast-off) and play money from a Life board game. I guess he's been to the Post Office with me quite a few times to mail packages for Bookmooch.com.
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