Counting or Alphabet: First thing that your child must know.

I taught 3 year old preschool, 4 year old preschool and kindergarten for many years. We did time with the alphabet and time with numbers each day. No matter what you start with repetition is a key factor. I used songs and visual aids. Little singsong sayings like for the sound of a letter, B say bu as in boy, B say bu bu bu 1 little 2 little 3 little Indians or whatever example you want to use. I suggest a bulletin board that a child can help decorate with letters and numbers....saying each as they put it on the board. Also, don't use to many at a time, as they learn 3 or 4 well, then move on to the next ones By the end of the year, I had my 3 and 4 yr olds reading simple books.

As far as I am concerned, psychologists advise to teach children the ABC and to count simaltaneously. Well, I've got no experience in that, my kid is too little, but I saw my sister-in-law, who is a teacher by profession, how she taught my niece the Russian alphabet and also figures. There should be some good books about that I guess.

I started my son with his alphabet first, we had the alphabet wallpaper for him and he took to it very quickly.

You must teach the alphabets first, the numbers are easy to grasp, specially if you teach the first ten numbes the rest is quite easy o follow

Of course every child is different in learning. My daughter learned her shapes and colors first. When it came to numbers and letter, I tried to teach them at the same time. However she picked up on her numbers quicker, she has always been able to recognize them easier. She knows how to write them better as well. It is a tought decision. Just go with what they naturally take too. It is also easier to add numbers to a conversation. You can always count something easier than you can spell something. Have fun! mommy of Layla-baby and Shaan-bubba http://lassdev4.team2succeed.com http://just4fun.moms4netprofit.com

I think we should develop first of all an aptitude of child by sounds & figures that would attract him. Its good to make him or her familiar with daily life things having the toys model. The shapes of numbers are so easy in a way that languages may be different but numbers are almost same globally.