Learning Activities for Young, Active Boys

I've learned that the best way for my son to learn is while he's active. I'm homeschooling my oldest daughter right now in preschool but with as much activity as I have Andrew do, I feel like i'm homeschooling him now too! :-)

We like to bounce, roll or throw balls across the living room or while outside. Each time I throw the ball, he repeats a sound I make (to work on the things his speech therapist has sent home with him). Then when he throws it back to me, he makes a sound that I'm to imitate. When doing this with my older daughter we can repeat sentances, rhymes, silly words, and tongue twisters.

Learning colors, shapes and other basic skills is becoming easier now that I have incorperated his cars! Today we drove the truck around to different colored peices of paper I laid across our living room. I'd call out a color, he'd drive the truck to it. Same thing with shapes and other basic skills. When we work on math, I'll pile up crayons or other small items on each paper and have him drive to a specific color to pick up "x" number of crayons (or whatever) in the truck bed, and drop off "X" number at color "x" and so on. In fact, i may begin doing that with my daughter - she really wanted to have fun driving the truck around today too.

That's only a couple ideas - we create new games and activities each day. You just have to keep those active little boys moving!