More Shapes!

Hey lovely faces, 

We are still working on shapes. I know Sarah knows them so well now but the variety of the activities doesn't give her the chance to get bored. I am also somehow following her lead and interests. For example, Sarah is currently very obsessed with clowns. She is even planning from now to her coming birthday party and she has decided to use the clown theme. I used this obsession to help us with shapes. It was something I saw long ago on Pinterest. We made a shape clown. Sarah also used pipe cleaners to create shapes.

Both Sarah and Farida played with shapes and play-dough. We did some dot-a-dot on shapes. I also drew the shapes with white crayon "wax colors" on a sheet of paper and then both Sarah and Farida colored it with regular markers to reveal the shapes.

Sarah did some cutting practice too. Farida also gave it a try :D

I have started a photo-dictionary that we are going to build ourselves. All the vocabulary words we are going to encounter are going to be put in this dictionary. The shapes were our starting words. Here:

All the sheets used are taken from this great source: 3 Dinosaurs.

And these are just recent taken images taken on the sea shore.

I don't like the new collage pictures I have used, they don't show the details and they are way too distracting. I promise I amnot going to use them again.

Also, I forgot to share with you an error I have done in the last post here. Thank God, a lot of people liked the ideas in this post an it was even featured on Sunday Showcase but what I forgot to mention is that I forgot and left the whole sensory tub untouched for a couple of day. Guess what happened? Mold grew on everything :( Yikees! I of course had to throw the water beads and deeply clean the shapes with Detol and other stuff. So, this is something I have learnt in the process.

I need to consult you, my friends, in something. Farida doesn't seem interested in any of the prepared activities we do. She wants to throw anything or disturb Sarah and take her things away. She screams and cries as if we are torturing her. The only thing she seems to enjoy is the sensory tubs. I know there is a 2-year- gap between both girls but I really don't know how to overcome this knowing that I currently don't have anyone to help.

That was all for today. We will continue some more with the shapes in our twisted ways following Sarah's leads. Thank you for visiting. Please, come back and check soon.

Love, 

Square, Rectangle, triangle and a Circle!

Hey my friends,

In the last post, we started learning about shapes. You can read more about this post Here. As I told you on this post, I had a "Shapes" sensory tub in hand. We had one in the past and it was the first sensory tub we ever had. You can also check this one Here. 

Today's sensory tub was a bit comprehensive, it had more than sensory items. The girls had a blast playing with it. It included:

• Wooden shapes (Melissa and Doug)
• Plastic shapes (used in shape sorting box)
• Goggly eyes
• Coins
• shape beads & lace
• water beads (balls & blocks)
• Circular & rectangular items
• "Sammy the Snake" book
• Zigzag

As you can see, Sarah laced the beads, Sarah and Farida used their hands and feet to test the tub, they scouped and dumped the beads. My rule was simple, what's inside the tub stays inside and it worked :D

Sarah can spell star and oval now :D

Thank you for being with us. We hope you have enjoyed. please come back soon. I really appreciate your comments!

Love, 

I Can See Shapes Everywhere!

Dear friends,

Sarah is a Kindergartener this year. She won't be home-schooled as we don't have this system here in Egypt but this doesn't mean we won't play and learn together. I have got her syllabus and I have decided to work on it with her in our fun, usual way. 

We won't work in any specific order. Accordingly, we chose to start off with the shapes. Thanks to Pinterest, we have found some great ideas. First, we started by setting up a bath. I have cut foam strips that can form different shapes, labelled each with the number of sides of the shape, the name of the shape and a small drawing of the shape. It was so much fun for both girls. We did the triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, oval, circle, hexagon and octagon.

Then, I had foam plates on which I drew dots representing the shapes and their names. The girls were supposed to push toothpicks in the plates. Farida wasn't really into anything but just pushing the toothpicks randomly and taking them from her sister ;)

We followed this was a simple tracing and sorting paper game. We had the book already in hand.

Finally, I used some colored tape and drew the shapes on the floor. I asked Sarah to move from one shape to the other using a specific action. For example, crawl like a baby to the star, hop on one feet to the rectangle, swim to the triangle, ...etc. We also threw teddy on the shapes naming them. It should have been a sand bag so that it lands and rests but we didn't have and we wouldn't have stopped because of this ;) We also listened to some songs about shapes.

Crawling!

Flying!

I have also prepared a new "shapes" sensory tub that we will probably be playing with tomorrow, God willing. We had one in the past, actually on the first day of our journey! You can check it Here for more ideas. It brings back a lot of sweet memories to my mind.

Thank you for being with us, we hope you have enjoyed today's activities. Please come back soon. Your comments are really appreciated.

Love,