Family Friday: MathLink Cubes Activity Set
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It’s back-to-school time! This set of MathLink cubes will help your preschooler build early math skills through fun and colorful interlocking cubes.
This set of 100 cubes includes cards with 30 hands-on challenges, puzzles, and math games. Using these durable cubes, kids can learn counting, sorting, matching, pattern recognition, arithmetic, and more. Math and fun are not mutually exclusive!
Learning Resources’ MathLink cubes are available at Amazon.
Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
I have a Spectra S2 (I think that’s right? The battery model) that I bought after checked luggage didn’t make it to my destination in time for me to pump. I’ve used it fewer than five times. If anyone is interested in it and the parts, I’m happy to pass it on. Let me know, and I’ll post a burner to work out details.
I used to tutor elementary math. These cubes are OK, but IME the must useful math manipulatives are two-color counters, base-10 blocks, and fraction towers.
Random question about milk! When do you stop offering milk first thing in the morning for your toddler/kid? What do you do instead? We give both kids a cup of milk first thing in the morning but I’m starting to wonder if their interest in breakfast would be higher if we offered milk with breakfast instead of before? We’ve tried both ways but our big kid (6) basically drinks no milk when it is offered with breakfast and I feel like they need the calcium as the world’s pickiest eater. Maybe we could do milk with afternoon snack? I feel kind of ridiculous asking real life friends because I feel like I should have figured this out by now…
For those of us with older kids (elementary/middle school)I, I want to throw out a couple of show recommendations that we’re finding actually enjoyable for both kids and adults: First, Time Bandits on Apple (hapless bandits who travel through time are joined by a nerdy little kid, it’s very funny in a silly way and charming). Second is Once Upon a Time, on Disney +. My husband and I watched it during the original run (mostly pre-kids), and I do remember that it started getting fairly dumb towards the end, but my kids recently asked to watch it and I’m remembering how fun and clever the set up of fairy tale characters in the “real” world really was. Plus I want every one of Regina’s dresses.
Anyway, it’s tough to find things that everyone can agree on, so these have been wins.
Years back, before I had my first child, I saw all over here and Corporette the advice about reading Janet Lansbury. I read and referenced her site continuously when my kids were little, but now that my oldest is seven I’m finding it hard to find similar advice for this age group. Does anyone have any recommendations, preferably short article-length reads, for behavior and development in kids approximately ages 5-10?
Thanks to Lansbury, I felt like I had a good understanding of why my child did things when she was a toddler, but I’m struggling more now to understand what she’s going through and why.
I’ve seen a knockoff of these math cubes in the dollar section at Target recently. I actually bought them but we weren’t really sure what to do with them, so my kid lost interest pretty quickly.
My 7 year old wakes up needing the potty around 10pm, and sometimes doesn’t make it resulting in a PJ / bed change. So we do a 10pm dream wee, but honestly, sometimes I’d quite like to be asleep before then and it’s a bit tricky when he’s sleeping over, at a Scouts overnight, etc. I think we might have inadvertently trained his body to go at 10 as well.
I know the advice is to cut kids off drinks at 5, but aftercare doesn’t have his preferred milk, so he’s often quite thirsty when we get home at 5. Any ideas that have worked for you?
When did your kid recognize letters? My 4 year old knows roughly half of the letters. Should we work with him at home to learn all of the letters so that he will be on track to start learning to read in the next couple years? They teach letters at his preschool but I am always a little worried about him falling behind because he is one of the youngest in his class.
Is it a terrible idea to have a birthday party on a school holiday (in this case Columbus Day)? Trying to find a date that works this year is complicated because of so many fall birthdays in DS’s class.
Any suggestions for classic movies to see before a trip to Disneyland that would tie-in to characters you see at the park? The main park, not DCA. We’re going next month and I’m thinking of getting a month of Disney+ to show my 6 year old some more Disney movies since she hasn’t really seen that many. She’s obsessed with Frozen and has seen Toy Story, Nemo, Moana, and the new live action Little Mermaid as well as stage musicals of the Lion King and Aladdin, but otherwise not that much Disney stuff.