Is your child crazy for toy cars, but not so crazy about learning reading words or math facts? An idea submitted by reader hopernch following my request for readers to share their learning tools and tricks turns toy cars into tiny teaching tools: "My son ONLY cares about wheels ... pushing anything that rolls since 9 months old. ... As a first grader, it became more worrisome, We needed him to expand his interests to letters and words. His teacher and I worked every day with him, but no way he was interested in books. I took his teacher's sight word list for the year, some index cards, cellophane tape and his beloved huge tote container of Hot Wheels vehicles to help him see the words in his world." Read more about how hopernch turned those cars into flash cards, then share your own learning strategies.
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