On one hand I feel like she gets more than enough stimulation at daycare, but on the other hand I want to encourage a learning environment at home. But, it is hard to figure out the balance. What do you do?
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Nothing structured. I try to mention colors and count when I'm moving or putting things away. We talk about shapes when there are shapes to talk about. I try to use a lot of sensory bins and let her learn through those. Ice and creatures frozen in them, treasure hunt through colored rice, sorting things.
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LO is 16mo. We don't do much. We do some signs because LO likes gestures. When we're at the dog park I like to talk in comparisons: big/little, fast/slow, white/black. I rarely think to do it elsewhere. We also read three books at bedtime. That's pretty much it.
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We read a lot. Draw letters. Flash cards that he likes w shapes colors etc. It's at random mixed all in w our general play time
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We like to "play school", which mainly means we put stickers in " learning" books and count and name colours, work on letter recognition. LO is 2-1/2. I'm not very consistent about it though, and mainly I follow her lead.
Also I sometimes get it in my head that i want to be the one who teaches her something specific, like how to spell her name. So then I'll work on that consistently.
Also, we read a few books every night. Depending on her mood and the time, we'll do letters, colours, emotions, etc while reading.
As she gets older I intend on increasing what we do (stay tuned).
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We read a lot and I ask him to point out different shapes, colors, etc. if he gets one wrong I just say 'oh silly that's a green circle!' Nothing too structured. We are all pretty wiped by the time we get home and we like to play more than anything. While we play with cars or trains I'll ask him to hand me the green car or something like that, just to help him recognize things.
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DS is 16 months and loves reading. I try to get him to point to things in his books. I count things, say shapes, colours or body parts. Nothing is structured or consistent though.
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Just reading. We just play and have fun at home. And she toddles after me while I clean and stuff.
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We read books, try to make an effort to point out colors/shapes etc... hopefully we'll do a bit more as he gets older - but for now since we don't have too much time in the evening we usually just play.
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We read a lot. And try it incorporate learning in regular every day activities. I noticed he's much more receptive when he's being taught lessons in a more natural setting. We also use concepts like same/different or more/less. I noticed that both of my kids were able to learn words and concepts faster when used in familiar context. Definitely nothing too structured.
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I guess it depends on what you mean by "educational." We don't have theme weeks or units or anything like that, but I do set up stations in the house where my son can do practical life activities, which I view as educational. The focus on more of the daily activity things, like sorting, organizing something, folding things, etc.
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At our DCP we get a daily sheet that says what was done that day and then suggestions for things to do at home - such as "take a walk and see how many different leaves you can find" or "take out money and practice counting and sorting"
During the summer months there isn't any work per say during the day so I am working with my 3yr old on tracing/writing as suggested by her teacher.
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I agree with @looch: we try to do more life application learning at home. Things like emptying the dishwasher (match the silverware to where it goes in the drawer), help peel potatoes, cut up fruit, make a sandwich, sort the laundry, etc.
I also try to let her have a good deal of "free play" at home because I feel like a lot of their day is structured at daycare and she doesn't really get much independent play. At age 3, I am still trying to encourage her to go read a book by herself, or play in her room by herself, or even play out in the yard! I think its just hard because she's so used to having people around that she just isn't comfortable playing by herself, but keeping herself entertained is a skill she's going to have to learn.
I also try to do some one-on-one time with her and focus on areas she may be struggling with like letter sounds.
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I only work on things that she isn't picking up on her own. She naturally learned letters/colors/numbers/shapes from incidental learning and daycare (she is 26 months), but she is slow on building, shape sorter type activities and fine motor stuff. But even then, we don't really structure the interaction, I just make sure to have those kind of activities out.
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Reading. Saying what something is when she grabs it. Saying the color. Not much.
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We play school, she'll be the teacher or I'll be the teacher. I also buy her learning games that we play. This is a recent one I bought. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006RQ8U8A/ref=ox_ya_os_product_refresh_T1
I also taught her to spell her name and we're working on her writing it.
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