Flashcard Shuffle

Flashcards can have many functions.  You may remember from last October that we played Hide and Seek with the flashcards.  This was a great way for Little Man to practice his letter recognition.

Well, he's got letter recognition and sounds down, but it's always good to practice.  We are also trying to learn to recognize numbers past 10.  So I decided to do a little flashcard shuffle.

First, I laid out the flashcards in a random order and had Little Man put them in the right order.  This is the beginning stages of alphabetic order and he did great.  We started out with half the alphabet.  He did so good at it, so we went with the entire alphabet. Again, he did great.

So we moved on to numbers.

We did 1 through 15 and he did great at it.

I started out easy, but my goal is to use games like this to get him to be counting to higher numbers AND to be able to recognize them when he sees them.

This is a good way to step away from the workbooks and make a game out of learning.