Best way to help ds write numbers and letters? (Primary school teachers?)

[jofeb04]

Hiya,
Ds is 3 and is in nursery. He has been bringing home pictures of him practicing the number 2. It is an A4 diagram, with a large number 2 on it. It has a green small circle at one end, and a red circle at the other. Ds then writes from one end to the other, and it was really good (proud mammy emotion)!

So, is it best to just allow ds to work on what he has done in school, or could we take the lead on that, and teach ds the full range of numbers, then the letters.

Ds is our eldest, so really stuck!

Thanks, and really hope ykwim!

[Emparade]

Its great he is interested but as a teacher I would be making sure he knows what 2 actually signifies. The 2ness of 2 as a collegue of mine says. Ask him to count out 2 things eg bits of dry pasta, beads etc. Order numbers to 5, Say which is more - 2 beads or 3 beads. With this age its all very visual and hands on. Its good for them to experience numbers practically in lots of different ways, then move on to recording. So you could do "get me 2 apples from the bowl, how would we write number 2 to show how many we had got etc. How many fingers am I showing etc"
School will teach them the writing - but you can give him a head start with the UNDERSTANDING which is the most important thing.

[jofeb04]

Thanks for the advice.