Busy Farm

Benefits:

• Visualize reading readiness concepts with hands-on 3-dimensional objects.
  
• The hands-on animals allow the child to easily add to or take away from sets, or to rearrange.
  
• Combining kinesthetic and visual learning will help to reinforce the connections formed in the child's brain.
  
• Engage the sense of touch by exploring different shapes and textures. For more challenge, try to identify an animal by touch alone.
  
• Learn categorization by sorting by color or shape.
  
• Activity cards are numbered for progressive learning.
  
• Promotes reading readiness:
  
• Matching
  
• Scanning Left to Right
  
• Visual Associations
  
• Shape Identification
  
  o Visual Differentiation
  o Sequencing
  o Patterns
  o Letter identification
  o Letter sounds