Today we brought out some fun educational toys my sister-in-law handed down to us. The names escape me at the moment, but they were pretty cool!
This one was perfect for SD to work with colors, sorting, and shape review
DD got a kick out of replicating the movements of this directional puzzle. It gave us plenty of opportunity to talk about directions throughout the rest of the day:).
One of their favorites...Handwriting Without Tears! They love this because of three things...the wood pieces, chalk and a wet paper towel...ha! Often the wood pieces turn into drum sticks, wands, and whatever else they can think of and my kids have an obsession for wet paper towels. I'm serious they could play with a wet paper towel for hours! As for the chalk...what kid doesn't like playing with chalk?
This was one of my favorites of the day. Count the House! We would have gone all over the house, but Granddad came by to help look at our leaking ceiling:(. So we kept it in the school room.
I am really into the living math with my girls instead of pushing them too soon into other math concepts. I am hoping this will really give them a true foundation of what the numbers really are and what they mean instead
of just saying they can count to 100 by Kindergarten. DD loved sticking the corresponding stickers in her notebook. I also got a little addition in there when we miscounted and needed to add another sticker. So instead of telling her I asked how many we needed to add to get the right amount and she was on top of it! In that moment I was living my dream of how I would like education to happen in our home:).
So although SD didn't really get into the sticker part she had a great time running around the room counting the different parts of the house/room. For a moment I was preoccupied with her doing the stickers, but luckily I've been at this enough that I let it go:). She was counting perfectly, playing with dolls in between, but would still count the next thing when I asked. So I would say we had success for the day.
It was a fun school day and then we all headed off to dance class that afternoon. Tomorrow we will be making an igloo on my bed and reading our library books from Friday. I'm WAY excited!
Erika
1 comment:
Lauri products! I love those, and have the circle/shape sorting puzzles myself. I also have a lot of their other puzzles. What's nice about Lauri is that they are supposed to be indestructible, BUT, if they get lost or destroyed (one piece did get chewed out of shape here), you can send .50 at the time, and they'll replace the one piece. How nice is that? Hhmmm, I wonder if Lauri is still around?
Anyway, love the big smiles with the activity, and love how you're "catching yourself" any time you over focus on the product instead of appreciating the process, and the individual nature of each child's way of learning! Woot!
You're doing fabulous!
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