Learning Everywhere Book

This book has a subtitle: A parent's guide to early learning at home, in the community and on trips. My husband picked it up at the Barnes & Noble $1 sale, and it was a good find. It groups learning activities into sections, for example, kitchen, bedroom, post office, beach, etc., and it has modifications for younger children. I am always looking for more activities to teach abstract mathematical and space awareness concepts, and this book offers a lot of them. One example is sock matching while sorting laundry. Anna tries to find all the socks - small, medium and large, and then she matches them by color and size. Most of the activities don't require elaborate preparation, and a lot of them are simple games that we just forget in the middle of dinner preparation or house cleaning. It's truly about learning by doing, and in my opinion it's the best way to learn.