colours, counting, alphabet

[jobekal]

at what approximate age should they know their colours, learn to count, learn the aplhabet

tori32, you clearly took offence to my posts. I think you need to remember I was referring to young children, not adults. When I said 'know the same' I was refering to knowing colours/letters/numbers. Not the finer points of biology or something. Obviously we all know different things. That would be stupid to say that.

I see what you mean about learning, that is what I was trying to say, in my way But I don't call that teaching. That is the way dd learns(as will ds) but I don't call it teaching. DD's preschool asked if I taught dd all the things she knows. I said NO. I don't activily teach her anything. If she asks a question I tell her the answer. Then I know she'll retain the info

It's interesting actually that dd knows lots about colours/letters etc etc but has difficulty remembering things like when you go to the toilet you must wipe your bottom Guess it's a question of wanting to listen and remember.

I think you should read my posts again with reference to the question asked.

thank you boo64, exactly

Eddas- reckon ar**wiping must be a whole lot less interesting to a 2/3 year old than looking at pictures in nice books!

can anyone suggest any good toys to help her? i know theres no substitute for sitting down spending lots of time talking to her bout colurs, showing her letters and numbers etc but with three children under 4, and no help looking after them i dont manage anywhere near enough time with them

i do lots of stories and singing when i am breastfeeding the baby but cant manage much more than that,

i have a puzzle with different coloured shapes but then i think she cant understand whether you are "teaching" shapes or colurs

also if you are introducing ( i suppose thats a better term than teaching) them to the alphabet do you do lower case letters first?

i thought about magnets but again they are different colours so that may confuse her?

are these leap pad or baby enstein or vtech products etc any good

I wonder if you can just set aside 30 mins or an hour a day to spend just with her to do some nice activities so that you feel she is getting some stimulation? I don't mean formal teaching but maybe reading books with key concepts in them/ talking about colours of the things she is playing with? I'm not keen on Vtechs etc.

Most schools seem to start with lower case letters - unfortunately ds has 'learned' to recognise upper case so no idea how I'm going to explain lower case to him but I've plenty of time before he starts school!

BTW is it unusual for a just over 2 year old to be able to count things (not just recite) - ds has now sussed when there are 1, 2 and 3 of things in the last day or two (he's been doing this where there are 2 things for a while). Just curious (and clueless) so pls no-one have a go at me for asking.