Numbers

Since starting pre-school, going on holiday with Lucy, and thinking about Jamie starting 'real' school this time next year, I have begun to wonder about Jamie's intellectual development.  I admit to letting him watch too much TV and so decided this week to try to limit TV and increase his reading.

This didn't last very long as a DVD I had bought him of Superted (remember him?) arrived and then we ended up borrowing another DVD of Dora's Halloween from the library (well we do need to get in the mood for the party!)

We stayed quite a while at the library on Monday and I was able to pick up a number of books relating to numbers and the alphabet (Ladybird First Steps abc and First Picture Dictionary).  Daddy has been teaching Jamie the letter J but any further than that and we are struggling. 

We are however, having better luck with the numbers.  A few months ago I bought a BBC magazine for Jamie and it came with a set of 'NumberJacks'.  Jamie enjoys playing with these and he has started to recognise what they represent.   He even asked to watch NumberJacks yesterday but unfortunately it is not on the i-player. I have just however, discovered they have their own website at:  www.numberjacks.co.uk/kids/ 

Jamie still has a tendency to just count very quickly once he is past 4 and then all numbers seem to merge into each other.  I think this is just a lack of concentration and possibly being lazy.  However, after only a day or two with the new book - Making Numbers: A Very First Counting Book, published by Andromeda - I do believe the numbers are beginning to make sense to him.