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It’s been interesting watching my daughter get used to kindergarten. We’ve dealt with her getting in trouble regularly in class to the point where her teacher was suprised to find that my daughter had indeed been in preschool, including a year on the same campus as the kindergarten.

There was the day my daughter proudly told me that she hadn’t had to sit in the “character chair” at all.

But now she’s rarely in trouble, so far as I know. She’s getting used to the idea that being in kindergarten is very different from preschool or at home. And she’s enjoying the learning process.

My daughter is in fact becoming quite the motivated little learner. It used to be that she would not let me teach her anything. But then she came home one day quite distressed that several of her classmates were in the “Reader Rabbit” section of class because they could read already, and she couldn’t.

I think that taught her something, and now she’s willing to look at learning things from me at home. She has developed a surprising interest in learning Japanese, and I’ve finally decided to get the KidSpeak 6-in-1 program to help her on that path. It will let her experiment with others as well, which I think is a benefit.

But I want to have resources to help her in more ways. And so I’ve been looking not only at websites and computer games, but on printed resources.

I’m planning on buying the Making Math More Fun - Math Games Package for her. It’s affordable and the games look pretty fun. The recommended age ranges go from 5-11, so we should be able to use it for several years. It comes with 4 ebooks of games to play and print out.

I’m a big fan of supplementing my children’s educations in ways that they will enjoy. Now that my daughter is feeling more open to the idea, I can really start working at it.

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