Counting Game

Remember how in the last post I said I'd been having to get creative in teaching Josh?  Well, thanks to Pinterest, which led me on a goose chase to a great website, I made up this counting game!

It's a piece of colorful scrapbook paper with AWESOME shiny dinosaur stickers.  Place as many as your child is learning to count.  (Josh can currently count to 12 with no problem, but has trouble after that.)  So, I thought we'd aim for 20.  Then I got small wooden cubes and made one into a dice.  I debated back and forth on just using a dice, but I wanted him to learn to count higher than 6 or 9.  And....my thought was if I bought a bag of more than one cube, then I could switch up the numbers!  Then you have to have counters.  We're using some colored foam shapes that I found at Michaels.  You roll the dice, then place that many on each dinosaur.  So.....if you roll an 8, then you cover 8 dinosaurs with the shapes.  (Practicing number identification, one-to-one correspondance, and counting.)  I know that Josh has trouble counting to 13, so that was definitely a number on the cube.  I also included the number 0 because some kids don't understand that means NOTHING.  Then the other numbers are smaller numbers that I know he knows, such as 8, 3, 2, and 4.

We started to play the game and he was actually interested.

OK.  I got a little hopeful.

He wanted to keep playing.

Getting a little more excited.  Rolled a 13.  He was actually willing to tackle that number WITH me without too much encouraging!  Getting more excited.....

And then he was REALLY excited!  So I got REALLY EXCITED!  He wanted to keep playing even tough I had to go shower.  He WANTED TO LEARN!  He wanted help with the number 13!  He wasn't giving up! 

VICTORY!

WHO'S YO MAMA! 

YIPEE!!!