Shape Bingo

After learning circles, triangles, and squares, it was time for review. 

We started the review by watching this video. It was a catchy little tune, so cute!

I made these **Shape Bingo cards with the bingo "chips" in mind. Skittles were the circle markers and Starbursts were the markers for both the squares and triangles (cut in half to make the triangles). 

{Rule: Finish the whole bingo card before eating the treats.}

Little Miss had fun picking a piece of candy and matching it on her bingo card. She was a little hesitant with the first few. Once she knew I wasn't going to help her match the shapes, she started matching the candies with their corresponding shapes and colors so that she could eat them.

Finally enjoyed the sweet success of completing the bingo card.

Little Miss talked about this activity for the next couple days. I considered it a real success.

**I'm working on sharing my shape bingo card file with you. Check back soon!

Four Corners

Squares! I was trying to figure out a fun way to introduce squares and spotted the oh-so-wonderful Post-it! Who doesn't love a good stack of brightly colored Post-its!? I have a rather large surplus of this sticky wonders from when I taught Kindergarten so I grabbed several, ran them through my little laminator and got to planning.

We started off with a good game of hide and go seek, with squares being the objects to be found. Some of them were hidden pretty sneaky (aka the pink square on the pink stroller) and other were easy to find. Little Miss enjoyed this so much that we played several rounds.

 Our art project for the day was making a paper quilt. We looked at Little Miss's baby quilt (made by my mom, Debradoodle) and noticed all the different colors and patterns on each square.

Little Miss colored her own quilt squares.

Glued them on her "quilt".

During that time, Baby Sis woke up and joined in on the square fun.

Here's the finished product!

And again, tracing the shape. (I'm saving all of the "work sheets" for her own portfolio at the end of the year and/or a shape book.)

Triangles

School time isn't always at the same "time" every day due to Baby Sis and her eating/sleeping schedule. So, Triangle Tuesday started after snack time instead of before.

 Little Miss was excited to eat triangular shaped crackers (Triscuits are a real treat in our house :)  We investigated the three sides on all of the crackers (I made sure that she didn't have any broken crackers so she would have a true triangle every time)

After snack we watched this video about triangles.

 

Little Miss surprised me by making a triangle out of her hands.

I gave Little Miss items that she could use to make her own triangles.

Paintbrushes.

Q-tips.

Bobby pins.

I had her trace the outline of a triangle.

We then had fun with paint and masking tape. I put masking tape on the construction paper before Little Miss started to paint and once the painting was dry, peeled it off revealing a perfect triangle.

the round of it

Our unit on shapes started with a circle.

We looked at a circle flashcard and talked about circles being round without any points.

Then we went on a circle search! As we looked around spotting circles we said this little chant:

I spy a circle looking at me.

There is a circle as round as can be!

Little Miss was very enthusiastic during our circle hunt. She was really thrilled that all of our doorknobs are circles.

I created a worksheet to help Little Miss learn how to draw circles. She loved "tracing" each circle.

Little Miss made a circle print painting. We used two different sizes of paper cups.

Then we finished off the day with a circle snack.

All About ME

A couple weeks ago I started "school" with Little Miss. 

Expectations were set (pockets on the floor, legs and arms folded, etc.)

We had a mini circle time and looked out the window and sang our weather song (I will post that later).

She was so excited to have her own school time while daddy was at school.

I read her the book I Like Myself! by Karen Beaumont. 

We checked ourselves out in the mirror noting eye and hair color specifically.

Then I traced Little Miss on a piece of butcher paper. She had me draw the stripes on her dress and her individual fingernails. She loved to color her fingernails red since we recently painted them red. 

{Excitement is in the details!} 

Then she colored clip art of facial features and glued them on the large "self portrait." 

The next day we talked about our family.

Little Miss colored pictures of each member of the family. Actually, she just colored their mouths. We now all have orange mouths. 

I had a fabulous idea to have Little Miss dress up like each family member. I thought she'd LOVE the idea since dress up is her #1 hobby. Well, she didn't get the hang of it. She just held props for her person. 

Here she is being Baby Sis, snugglin' a doggy. 

Here she is as herself, spunky as ever.

Being Dad. She nailed this one.

And being me. Not sure why "I'm" holding the creepy old woman puppet. But the expression is sweet.

Coming Soon....SHAPES!