How do tactile letters quicken learning letters?

I have a 5 year old he turn 5 in November 08, he is vpk, and is having difficulty learning letters & numbers.?

• When we sit down at home to do numbers and letters he has difficulty learning moves a lot and doesn't stay still; he just wants to play, he remembers everything else except school ...show more

• Answer:

  My son is the same way. He would not sit still for a single minute to do his work and yet he remembers everything. Even with his difficulty in sitting still and concentrate, we have managed to sneak in learning activities within his daily plays and games. In order to learn counting, numbers and eventually addition, I would start with things that he liked first and foremost. Mty son used to love to eat cheerio and I would use that to learn counting. We would be eating breakfast and counting at the same time. I would also use his toys to learn math, such as his lego bricks, and used it as tools to learn numbers. In fact at later time, I actually used that for learning addition as well. Have numbers written on a small piece of paper, and have him played matching game, i.e. match the amount of legos, with the actual number on the paper. I would go to the park and play marching game with him, and start counting from 1 to 20 as we march. To tell you the truth, I had only done the marching game twice, since he got them by then. The same thing with alphabet as well, I would see what your son loves to do, and incorporated learning into his games. In my case, I used train as a tool. I would find story books with trains in it (not those with just picture and a single word under it, but an actually book with story), and tells him where the word train is, and let him them on the subsequent page. And then have him tried to write those letters out. Eventually he is curious enough to want to know all the words and letters in it. My final suggestion would be to incorporate play into learning and vice versa. I believe children think that learning is boring, thus it is not something that they want to do. Regardless of what your child diagnosis turned out to be, you can always teach your kid early on, it might be harder but you still can.