RE: Rummy
BY: Regina Finan to All on Mon Mar 03 1997 07:08:20
 > well.  He is also learning to accept help from others more easily.  I know
 > this is not the same thing as school, but the concept of teaching him and
 > being able to help him understand that he can do it is really helping his
 > self esteem along with actually forcing him to concentrate and follow a
 > designated order of things.  Thought I would bring this out.
If it's teeaching concepts, it is school. I think they just don't hae time 
or
rummy in most public school classes...to hard to play with 30 kids. We have 
the
tile version of the game (rummy k) and it's a good exercise in concentration,
as you said.
I find another thing that helps my 8 yr old concntrate on alphabetizing is to
have her write out the alphabet at the top of the page before she starts. 
hat
way she has a visual reference. With her that is sometimes necessary as she
looses track (gets distracted) halfway through very easily. She has the same
problem with math. When I started her on homeschool this year, I found I had 
to
go back to the very basics of addition with her. She kept insisting on 
counting
problems out on her fingers, which is not necessarily a problem in and of
itself, but she would get half of them wrong because she would loose
concentration in the middle and miscount. Now she knows the facts well enough
without counting that it's just a matter of keeping her sitting and focused 
n
the paper. When we can do that, she usually gets them right :)
                                               ...peace...
                                               Alinda Sue...
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