Clothespin work is very important for preschoolers because it strengthens their little hands for cutting and pencil holding. As our middle child is working on small numbers, and counting with one to one correspondence I had Miss H make this "work" for him. She glued felt numbers (0-5) to the back of sentence strips, and put little dot stickers to indicate the right amount. She put odd numbers on yellow and even numbers on red and then counted out 15 clothes pins. It's a great little work, because it is self correcting, the felt numbers are a great tactile reminder to help form that association between number icon, number name, and quantity, I am going to add a list of the numbers going 0-5 for control of error. But thus far, a success. (Of course if I had made the work, I would have put 0 on a neutral color, and also color coordinated the felt numbers, but as my "assistant" turned five two weeks ago, I guess I shouldn't complain!)
