Homeschooling ADD Kids

                                                

 

We chose sheep for our unit study this week because kids seem to love them and also because there are people who still rely on sheep as their livelihood. In view of today’s economy many people are looking into ways to live of the land and owning sheep and/or goats really can help. They provide food (milk) and clothing (wool) and they are super-interesting creatures. Did you know that there are over 200 different kinds of sheep?

 

Lets begin our unit study and see what else we can learn!

 

Reading, Spelling, History, Art, Animal Science

If you’ve been using my unit studies for a while, you probably are already familiar with my advice on how to teach children with ADD or other learning differences how to read. If not, read our post " Tips to Teach Your Child How to Read Better ". 

 

First, find a book about sheep that fits your child’s reading level.  You might wish to purchase one from Amazon.  Here’s a list of books about sheep that you can buy online and have delivered to you.

 

If your child is very young, you might want to read the free online version of Baa Baa Blacksheep (originally written in 1880!).  Or try this other free online children’s book (1840) called The Flock of Sheep, or Familiar Explanations of Simple Facts.

 

Read one of the books that you ordered or downloaded and then talk about it. If it was a book that was just a cute story about a sheep ask your child what they thought it says about the personalities of sheep. Do they like sheep? Would they want to own a sheep?

 

Well, if you are really into the idea, you can actually adopt a sheep .  Please let us know if you do this and how it works out!

There is a lot of variety among sheep.  Here are pics of some different kinds of sheep:

 

 

 

These are some of the pictures we found online, but you may want to search for more. However never leave your child unattended to scout out pictures of anything online. When Googling something, be sure to add “for kids” or something like that. When you do find your pictures go through them and ask your child to determine what sheep he thinks best pictures the sheep you read about. Now go find your sheep! See where it lives and where it came from. Wikipedia has a section all about the different breeds. Use Pronto.com to get a printable map of the world if you don’t already have one and find the country that the sheep comes from. What is the climate in that country and how would that affect the sheep and farmers of that area?

 

Have your child draw a picture of some of the different sheep you find and have them write the type of sheep it is under each picture and the country of origin. When writing the name of the sheep have him say the name out loud and then spell the word also out load as he writes. This process allows for visual and mental recognition of the words.

 

A few more sheep facts

Female sheep are called ewes, baby sheep are called lambs, and male sheep are called rams. A group of sheep is called a flock.

 

 

They normally live to be about 8 years old, but can sometimes live to be as old as 20. Sheep usually give birth once a year and have 1-3 lambs. Lambs form strong bonds with their mothers. They can identify their mother by her bleat. Can you tell the difference? This site has some sounds that your child might find funny. Our dog loves it!

http://www.sheep.com/sheep_sounds.cfm

 

Depending on how old your child is you can teach your child the classic songs “Baa Baa Black Sheep” and “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

 

Math, Making a Living, Reasoning

Sheep Farming (also known as Sheep husbandry)

 

Go to this article on Wikipedia for a great description of what is involved in raising sheep to sell either the sheep or their milk or fleece for a living. There is also a section on sheep shearing or clipping.  Typically each adult sheep is shorn once a year (a sheep may be said to have been "shorn" or "sheared").  Depending on the size of the farm some farmers shear up to 3000 sheep in a day!

 

 

The assignment for this section is to figure the cost of raising, owning & shearing sheep.  Now figure out how much money is made by selling the wool, or the profit in making a sweater or a blanket to sell. Write these down and get the cost and profit totals. You can add the profits of selling the milk or cheese to make this a bit more challenging as well.

 

 

 

Example:

Cost 1 sheep $20

Shearers $5

1 sheep 6 pds of wool

$ per pd $5

 

With one shearing a year how much money would you make?

 

Add the selling of milk or cheese:

1 sheep produces 1 gal milk

1 gal milk worth $6

 

Now lets say you want to just raise and sell the sheep:

1 female sheep (ewe) $20

1 male sheep (Ram) $20

1 baby sheep (Lamb) $25

 

If a female sheep has one to two sometimes even three lambs at a time, what could your profit be for the year?

 

Depending on your child’s age you can make this easy by figuring this with one sheep or for older children making it a flock of 10 etc…

 

Sheep in daily life

Do you have any wool sweaters or blankets in the house? Have your child feel it. Compare the wool to something made of cotton. Discuss the values of wool and how it keeps the sheep warm in the winter and even cool in the summer. Ask your child what they think of the texture, the purpose and the value of wool.

 

Go outside and look at grass, the main food source for sheep. Take your shoes off and walk barefoot to get a feel for it. Discuss what that is like for the sheep how they would chew it and maybe even talk about “chewing cud” (Wikipedia has some interesting information on this) This is why humans and dogs can not live on grass like cud chewers (sheep, goats, horses) do. If your child is very young, just have her run around making noise like a sheep might do.

 

 

Writing, Science, Nature

 

No true sheep farmer could live without the help of his trusty ol’ sheepdog. A sheepdog is a type of dog whose original purpose was to herd or guard the sheep. They were first trained thousands of years ago and the herder was able to get them to act on the sound of a whistle or by voice command. Many sheep dogs are now kept as domestic pets these dogs are very active and intelligent so they require both physical and mental exercise.

 

Watch the following video together:

 

 

Now ask your child how would he train a dog to do this.  Ask him or her what commands might you need to train a sheep dog?

 

Have your child write an essay about 200 words in length to describe either all that you would do with your sheepdog or an essay as if you were the sheepdog. What would a day in the life of a sheepdog be like? The essay does not have to be perfect since, after all, your child may be pretending to be a dog. Take the words that your child has trouble spelling and make them into spelling words. Rewrite them and then play catch outside while you help your child to spell these words out load again say the word spell the word. Now go back inside and have your child try to write and spell these words on his own.

 

Here’s a fun video to watch about "extreme" sheep herding:

 

 

Arts & Crafts

Many people have a potential "sheep" right in their house. People have been spinning dog hair into yarn long before the Spaniards introduced sheep to North America. Chiengora (she-an-gora), or dog yarn, is up to 80% warmer than wool, very soft, similar in appearance to Angora, and sheds water well. All you have to do is save the brushings from your dog!

 

Here’s a site with instructions on how to make dog yarn.

 

 

Art, History, Science, Math

 

Try making sheep milk cheese (feta) with your child! (click on the words "sheep milk cheese" in the previous sentences for instructions.  Make sure to use this occasion to teach measurements to your child.  Have him or her measure the ingredients.  Ask him to figure out how much of each ingredient you would have to use if you needed to double or triple the recipe (or perhaps divide it in half).  If your child doesn’t know fractions or is not skilled at adding, multiplying or dividing them, this is a great time to teach him!

 

You might prefer making pecorino cheese (similar to Romano, that you use on pasta with tomato sauce):

 

 

OR

 

…try making sheep or goat milk soap:

www.ehow.com/how_4551864_milk-soap-cold-process-method.html

 

Next unit study

The next unit study will be in two weeks, on the topic of space!  See you then!

 

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For the past two weeks we have been doing a unit study based on Japan.  Today we’re back to working on improving your child’s memory by means of a Japanese game. 

 

READ THIS FIRST

Before starting the exercises, it’s important to understand the two phases of physical memorization games.  Please click on the link at the end of the previous sentence to read about it.  Then click on your back button to come back to this post.

 

SPELLING

Fact Explanation/Review Phase

 

Two weeks ago in International Unit Study: Japan Part 1  you had your child read a book or part of a book to you.  After that you read a book to him that was a little more difficult than the one he read.  Grab those books again (or go back to the ones that you read online) and pick some words that you are not sure if he knows how to spell.  But make sure to also include some words that you are sure he can spell very well.  Including words that are easy for him to spell will help build up his confidence when you play the game.

 

Write the words on a large whiteboard or chalkboard.  If you don’t have one, you could just use a large sheet of paper, but using a whiteboard is the most visually stimulating and interesting to kids.  Leave space below each of the words you write.  Include no more than 10 words.  About half of them should be words he can already spell quite well.

 

Starting with the first word, mention to him what part of the book used that word.  If he starts talking about something that happened in that part of the book since you got him thinking about it, that’s okay.  But if his ADD makes him hyperfocus on a topic and he goes on and on about the book, politely tell him that it was interesting, but ‘let’s get back to the spelling of these words’.

 

Next, have him write the word himself under each of the words you wrote.  Don’t focus to much on his handwriting, especially if he’s using a fat dry-erase marker on a whiteboard, but make sure you can at least read what he wrote.  If it’s so messy you can’t even read it, kindly say something like ‘I can’t make out those last two letters, can you write them over again?’

 

Now have him read the first word he wrote out loud, then spell it while looking at it.

 

Exercise/Game Phase

 

As mentioned, to coincide with the unit lesson from the past two weeks, this game is from Japan.  The name of the game in Japanese is Kami-zumo.  Kami-zumo is a sumo wrestling game played with little paper origami characters. It’s not that physical, but a lot of fun and can be used as a means of memorizing facts.

 

First you have to make the game, which can be fun in itself.  Although the process of making the game is not part of the memorization exercise itself, you might want to have your child share in making the paper characters and game board.  Use construction paper or some other type of stiff paper and follow the instructions in this video:

 

 

 

 

Then take a sheet of paper and draw a circle in the middle of it.  Tape it to the top of a box.  You will use this as the wrestling ring.  Watch this video to see how to play the game:

 

 

 

 

If your character falls down or goes out of the ring, you lose.  However, whichever character goes out, your child must practice a spelling word before starting to play again.  Say one of the words that you reviewed with you child in the Fact/Explanation Review Phase.  Have your child spell it out.  If he gets it right, continue playing the game.  If he spells the word incorrectly, explain how to spell it right and have him repeat the correct spelling.  Continue the game and use the same word when the game stops until he can spell the word correctly.

 

Repeat this game for memorizing math equations or history and science facts.

 

Have a game or exercise that can be used to help memorize facts, math or spelling?  Please scroll up and click on the title of this post, then fill in the Comment box at the end.  I’ll choose one game to feature on this blog three weeks from now.  Let’s all pitch in and help each other by sharing ideas!

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Last Monday I explained how you can teach your child how to do Internet research on the topic of dinosaurs,  which was the theme of our unit study for the two weeks before that.

 

Today we’re going to work on your child’s memory by means of physical exercises and games again, like we did a number of weeks ago after doing the unit study on dogs.  If you did the games from last month, you’ll notice that the instructions below are basically the same as last time, except that I changed the game/exercise activities.  Keeping the same basic system for doing the Fact Explanation/Review Phase is a great aid in creating enough "ritual" to make it easy to remember how to do.  At the same time you’ll find enough variety in games that your child won’t get bored (especially if he has ADD).

 

READ THIS FIRST

 

Before starting the exercises, it’s important to understand the two phases of physical memorization games.  Please click on the link at the end of the previous sentence to read about it.  Then click on your back button to come back to this post.

 

SPELLING

 

Fact Explanation/Review Phase

 

Two weeks ago in Weekly Unit Study: Dinosaurs Part 1  you had your child read a book or part of a book to you.  After that you read a book to him that was a little more difficult than the one he read.  Grab those books again (or go back to the ones that you read online) and pick some words that you are not sure if he knows how to spell.  But make sure to also include some words that you are sure he can spell very well.  Including words that are easy for him to spell will help build up his confidence when you play the game.

 

Write the words on a large whiteboard or chalkboard.  If you don’t have one, you could just use a large sheet of paper, but using a whiteboard is the most visually stimulating and interesting to kids.  Leave space below each of the words you write.  Include no more than 10 words.  About half of them should be words he can already spell quite well.

 

Starting with the first word, mention to him what part of the book used that word.  If he starts talking about something that happened in that part of the book since you got him thinking about it, that’s okay.  But if his ADD makes him hyperfocus on a topic and he goes on and on about the book, politely tell him that it was interesting, but ‘let’s get back to the spelling of these words’. 

 

Next, have him write the word himself under each of the words you wrote.  Don’t focus to much on his handwriting, especially if he’s using a fat dry-erase marker on a whiteboard, but make sure you can at least read what he wrote.  If it’s so messy you can’t even read it, kindly say something like ‘I can’t make out those last two letters, can you write them over again?’

 

Now have him read the first word he wrote out loud, then spell it while looking at it.

 

Exercise/Game Phase

 

This game is called Playdo Hockey.  If you don’t have any Playdo, you can make your own or just make a little inedible modeling dough and use that.

 

Clear off the kitchen table.  Your child stands at one end and you stand at the other end.  Cup your right hand (or your left if you are left-handed) and think of it as being a little hockey stick.  Start the game by saying one of the spelling words that you used in the Fact Explation/Review Phase in the section above.  After you say the word, hit the Playdo with your palm so that it slides or rolls across the table toward your child.  Your goal is to try to knock it off the other end of the table.  Your child should try to prevent this using his right hand.  He can only rest his hand on the table, though.  He can’t block the end of the table with any part of his arm.

 

Now he has the opportunity to hit it toward you with his hand and try to get it to go off of your end of the table.  However, before he does this he must spell the word that you said to him before you hit the Playdo.  If he spells it incorrectly, tell him so and spell it correctly for him.  Then tell him to repeat the correct spelling.  Have him spell it one more time correctly, after which he may now hit the playdo toward you.

 

Each time he spells a word correctly, he gets one point.  The goal is to get to 20 points.  (It can be less depending on your child’s age or ability).  There are no points awarded for getting the Playdo off the opponent’s side of the table.  That part is just for fun.

 

When he misspells a word, his score returns to zero. 

 

If he seems to get bored of the game quickly, then every 3 points or so, play a fast hockey game where you both hit the Playdo back and forth without stopping until one of you misses.   This is great fun, but make sure to stop and go back to the previously-described way of playing so that he can practice the spelling words.

 

The key to this game’s success is making it fun for your child.  If he’s having a great time, he won’t think of it as just practicing spelling the same words over and over.  So laugh a lot and enjoy the game!

 

Share your experience with this game by commenting on it after you are done.   Feel free to have your child comment himself!

 

Let’s move on to the next memorization game, which teaches math.

 

MULTIPLICATION

 

Last week in Weekly Unit Study: Dinosaurs Part 2, you did some math together when your child colored in the dinosaur, using colors matched with the solutions to addition problems.  But in order to do math problems, he must first be able to add, subtract, multiply or divide well.  In this game your child will practice multiplication.  However, if your child is still working on addition or subtraction, keep working on that instead.

 

Fact Explanation/Review Phase

 

Start with the whiteboard again.  Write 10 multiplication problems, without the answer.   Have your child fill in the answers to the ones that he knows.  Try to include some problems which you know he can figure out so that he’ll feel positive about the experience.

 

When your child gets stuck, tell him the answer, but have him write it on the board.  Then erase the answer and have him do it again.  Since he just wrote it down, he’ll probably remember the answer.  Do this a number of times until it seems that he can get most of the answers right the majority of the times that he does it.

Exercise/Game Phase

 

Say a number and then do that number of jumping jacks.  Now ask your child to say a number and do the number of jumping jacks that he said.  Now ask him what the answer is if he multiplies your number of jumping jacks times the number of jumping jacks that he did.  Give him a point if he gets it right.  (Don’t worry, neither of you have to actually do the number of jumping jacks equaling the solution to the problem.) 

 

Next, say a number and do that number of push-ups. If you can’t do push-ups, try kneeling and doing them.  Ask you child to say a number and do that number of push-ups, too.  Have him multiply the numbers.  Again, he gets one point if he gets it right.

 

Continue to do the same with other exercises such as squats, sit-ups and similar exercises.

 

The goal is to get 10 points.  For this exercise game, it might be better not to go back to zero if he gets an answer wrong, otherwise you might both fall on the floor from exhaustion.

 

This is a great way for the both of you to get some exercise while improving your child’s memory at the same time.

 

NEXT WEEK

 

Now that we’ve had unit studies on both dogs and dinosaurs, we’ll move on to another topic, yet to be decided.

 

Up to now I’ve only been writing unit studies and games for memorization for each Monday.  However, I would love it if one of you would like to write and submit some unit studies, too.  We are almost at 100 subscribers.  If each of us submitted a unit study periodically, we could have enough unit studies to cover each day of the week!  Sharing is a great way for all of us to benefit from each other’s experience and knowledge.  If you are interested, please comment here or e-mail me at kbroccoli@homeschoolingADDkids.com

 

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If you’ve been receiving my unit studies for the past couple of weeks, you know that the unit study topic has been dogs.  Weekly Unit Study: Dogs Part 1 concentrated on teaching reading, writing, art, conversation, formulating opinions, math, grocery shopping, cooking, sharing and caring.  Weekly Unit Study: Dogs Part 2 focused on teaching more reading, writing and math as well as typing, responsibility, geography and computer skills.

 

Well, it’s Monday again, but instead of doing a unit study, per se, we’re going to work on your child’s memory by means of physical exercises and games.  However, some of the exercises and games will be related to the past two Mondays’ unit studies on dogs.  This will be a fun homeschooling day for your child and should keep him interested despite his ADD.

 

READ THIS FIRST

 

Before starting the exercises, it’s important to understand the two phases of physical memorization games.  Please click on the link at the end of the previous sentence to read about it.  Then click on your back button to come back to this post.

 

SPELLING

 

Fact Explanation/Review Phase

 

Two weeks ago in Weekly Unit Study: Dogs Part 1  you had your child read a book or part of a book to you.  After that you read a book to him that was a little more difficult than the one he read.  Grab those books again (or go back to the ones that you read online) and pick some words that you are not sure if he knows how to spell.  But make sure to also include some words that you are sure he can spell very well.  Including words that are easy for him to spell will help build up his confidence when you play the game.

 

Write the words on a large whiteboard or chalkboard.  If you don’t have one, you could just use a large sheet of paper, but using a whiteboard is the most visually stimulating and interesting to kids.  Leave space below each of the words you write.  Include no more than 10 words.  About half of them should be words he can already spell quite well.

 

Starting with the first word, mention to him what part of the book used that word.  If he starts talking about something that happened in that part of the book since you got him thinking about it, that’s okay.  But if his ADD makes him hyperfocus on a topic and he goes on and on about the book, politely tell him that it was interesting, but ‘let’s get back to the spelling of these words’. 

 

Next, have him write the word himself under each of the words you wrote.  Don’t focus to much on his handwriting, especially if he’s using a fat dry-erase marker on a whiteboard, but make sure you can at least read what he wrote.  If it’s so messy you can’t even read it, kindly say something like ‘I can"t make out those last two letters, can you write them over again?’

 

Now have him read the first word he wrote out loud, then spell it while looking at it.

 

Exercise/Game Phase 

 

This game is called the "Push-Each-Other-Around-the-Floor Game".  Yeah, it needs a better name, but I can’t seem to think of one (leave a comment with a suggestion if you can think of a good name, please). 

 

Get some masking tape or any other kind of tape that is easy to write on and cut 40 strips of tape about 2 inches long.  Together, write the words on the tape, repeating each word about 4 times (if you have 10 different spelling words).

 

If you have a kitchen floor with squares on it, such as a ceramic floor or a vinyl floor with design lines on it, place one piece of tape on each square.  Your playing area should be about 5 squares wide and 8 squares long.  Try not to place duplicates of the same words next to each other.  If your squares are too small to fit one of your feet on it, then use more tape to outline several squares large enough to fit your feet.  You can also use the tape to make your own squares if your floor doesn’t have any.

 

Now, stand on the middle line, 4 squares into the playing area, with your feet about shoulder distance apart.  Have your child face you, placing his feet a few inches away from yours. 

 

Put your hands out like your pushing on a door while he does the same, placing your left hand on his left hand and your right hand on his right, palm to palm.   Tell him to push against your palms to try to make you move your feet.  When you feel him pushing, push back, trying to make him move his feet.  Because you’re bigger and stronger than he is, you can probably make him move and resist moving yourself.  However, at times let up on the pressure so that he has the advantage. 

 

If you stumble and move your feet, ask your child to look at the square where the toes of your right foot are resting and read the word that appears there (don’t look at the square yourself).  Repeat the word that he read to you and spell it. 

 

If your child is the one that stumbles and moves his feet, then you should read the word while he spells it, without looking at the ground.

 

Each time you spell a word out loud it helps him, since he hears the word being spelled.  You count no points when you spell a word.  Each time he spells a word correctly you count one point.  If he spells two words correctly in a row, that’s two points.  Once he spells a word wrong, the score goes back to zero and he starts over again.  Spell the word that he spelled incorrectly and have him repeat the spelling before you resume the game.

 

It’s important to note that this is not a competitive game.  When educational games are competitive, it can distract the child from learning and decrease his confidence level.  However, if you have two children, they can play this game together, but their score should be collective.  If either of them spells a word incorrectly, their collective score goes back to zero.

 

The goal is to get 20 points.

 

Make sure that he realizes that you can only push against each other hands, otherwise it can quickly get rough and crazy, especially between two kids.

 

There will be lots of laughing as you push and shove each other, and you may find he doesn’t want to stop.  Our "Push-Each-Other-Around-the-Floor Game" usually lasts about 20 to 30 minutes.  By the time you are done, he will probably know the new words by heart.  If not, that’s okay, too.  Just continue to use the words that he spelled wrong the next time that you play the game together.

 

The key to this game’s success is making it fun for your child.  If he’s having a great time, he won’t think of it as just practicing spelling the same words over and over.  Could you imagine how he would respond if you just had him sit there and spell the words for 20 to 30 minutes, or used flash cards for that long.  Blah.  That would bore the life out of him. 

 

Share your experience with this game by commenting on it after you are done.   Feel free to have your child comment himself!

 

Let’s move on to the next memorization game, one involving math.

 

ADDITION

 

In Weekly Unit Study: Dogs Part 1 , you did some math together when you cooked the dog biscuits (simple fractions) and when you had your child figure out how much many bills to give the cashier and how much cash to get back.  In Weekly Unit Study: Dogs Part 2 , your child used math to figure out how much it costs to own a dog over time.  But in order to do math problems, he must first be able to add well.  In this game your child will practice addition.

 

Fact Explanation/Review Phase

 

Start with the whiteboard again.  Write 10 addition problems, without the answer.   Have your child fill in the answers to the ones that he knows.  Try to include some problems which you know he can figure out so that he’ll feel positive about the experience. 

 

Help him to figure out the ones he doesn’t know by memory.  In other words, if he doesn’t know the answer to 5 + 4, count out 5 of some item, such as buttons (not coins because they have a number value, and that can be confusing later on) and then add 4 buttons to them, then have him count the total number of buttons.  After that, count out 5 buttons again, and have him add 4 buttons, counting them as he adds them.  Finally, have him do that same step again, but this time have him put the 4 buttons he wants to add to one side, then tell them that as he adds them to the 5 buttons he must count starting with the number following 5.  In other words, he adds a button from the pile of 4 to the pile of 5 while saying "6".  The next button he adds he says "7".  This teaches him the concept of "counting up".  These methods help him to understand the conceptual side of math.

 

Don’t worry if he is slow at this, but if you see he is getting very bored or irritated, then just do a few of these and move on.

 

Exercise/Game Phase

 

If it’s not too cold out (we get some nice days in Winter here in North Carolina), play this game in the back yard or at a park.  He’ll love the idea of going to a park for homeschool!

 

All you need to play this game is a ball that you can kick, such as a soccer ball, a rubber ball or one of those cheap plastic balls that they sometimes sell at Target or Wal-Mart.  Oh, and you also need 4 sticks or rocks.

 

Place the sticks or rocks about 6 feet apart like soccer goal posts.  Alternatively you can scrape marks in the ground.  Do this on both ends of the field or yard. 

 

Start the game by saying a math problem such as 5 + 4, then kick the ball, trying to get it between your child’s goal posts.  He has to try to block your attempt.  If you get it in jump and cheer, but don’t count any points.

 

Next, your child yells the answer to the problem, in this case 9, and kicks the ball to you trying to get it between your goal posts.  (If he’s very young, give him a break and let him get it in once in a while.)  Jump and cheer again for him if he gets it in. 

 

If he gets the answer wrong, don’t kick the ball back to him. Instead pick it up and say "no, it’s 9, try again", but in a cheerful voice, and throw it back to him.  Since you gave him the answer, he’ll get it right this time.  On your turn to kick, say the same math problem again until he has done it 5 times.  This repetition is only for problems that he got wrong.  If he gets it right immediately, just move on to a new math problem.

 

Every time he gets one right it equals one point.  His goal is 20 points.  When he gets one wrong he goes back down to zero.  If it’s too hard for him or your time is limited, just try going for 10 points.

 

How hard the addition problems are depend on the age and math ability of your child.  If he can add all of the single-digit numbers, proceed on to double-digit numbers.  If he can do those, move on to triple digits, etc.

 

This game can go on for 30 to 45 minutes without most ADD kids becoming too bored.  If he does seem to get bored of it quickly, then every 3 points or so, play a one-on-one soccer game where he runs and kicks the ball while you try to get it away from him before he can get it in your goal and vice-versa.  This version of the game is great exercise for the both of you.

 

If the weather doesn’t allow you to go outside, try an indoor version of this game with two socks rolled up in a ball together.

 

These are just a few physical memorization games that we play with Steven.  They work fantastic.  I’m sure you’ll find the same.

 

Do any of you have any variations on this game?

 

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