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December 14, 2005
Bright Lights
Okay so yesterday your children counted Christmas packages and ornaments. Today they can do more counting.
Around Christmas time, we'd take a drive around town or over to Chico from Orland or to buy a Christmas tree. It didn't matter where we went, we just went somewhere in the evening.
The game was to see how many lighted houses you could find before we got home. Powers of observations, strategies to figure out how you could find more than the others who were sitting next to you, as well as simply counting were the learning actvities for this one.
When we first started it, the kids were little and they just liked the locating and the counting of the houses. As they got older, strategy to find more than the others became involved.
It was fun. We laughed a great deal and I'll bet if I had all four of mine in a car today, they'd be counting lighted houses on the way home trying to see who could find the most.
Posted by Dr Joni at December 14, 2005 07:28 AM