July 21st, 2017
We sure love our shapes! Now that most of us know our basic shapes we have decided to try learning some trickier shapes like Pentagon, Octagon and Decagon. It is fun to learn shapes that have many sides when they have funny names! This week our main focus was on the oval, diamond, rectangle, triangle and pentagon.
We took inspiration from Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar storybook to create a caterpillar that uses multiple oval shapes for its body. Some of the caterpillars were so full from eating all the food that their faces were grumpy looking and their feet couldn’t even touch the ground because of their full tummies. Too funny!
For the diamond shape we made kites that held confetti, macaroni and feathers between two transparencies. It was mesmerizing to watch the pieces fall back and forth as you tilted the kite.
What could be more yummy than making pizza while learning about shapes?! Everyone became min-chefs when we made mini triangle shaped pizzas. Mmm. We also painted an ocean on tin foil and added little triangle fish swim around on it. We even had some stingrays made.
I am a R-O-B-O-T. We pieced together robots using different sized rectangles. We learned that rectangles can be tall and skinny, fat and short, standing up or laying down, and even diagonal. The kids also did a great job finding and collecting objects that were in the shape of a rectangle during our scavenger hunt.
A pentagon is like a drawing of a house; it has a roof, two walls and a bottom. It was quite funny to watch the kids try to form a pentagon with their bodies! We also spent some time wrapping yarn through and around a pentagon shape. This was great for practice in hand eye coordination and of course patience.
Unfortunately the air quality has not been too good this past week due to the forest fires, so we have not had as much outside time as we would like, but we have been spending a lot of time building forts and caves uses our sticks and balls kit. There are so many different things to build! Also, beware the bears that live in these caves…they are very quiet, very sneaky and quite cute!
We sure love our shapes! Now that most of us know our basic shapes we have decided to try learning some trickier shapes like Pentagon, Octagon and Decagon. It is fun to learn shapes that have many sides when they have funny names! This week our main focus was on the oval, diamond, rectangle, triangle and pentagon.
We took inspiration from Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar storybook to create a caterpillar that uses multiple oval shapes for its body. Some of the caterpillars were so full from eating all the food that their faces were grumpy looking and their feet couldn’t even touch the ground because of their full tummies. Too funny!
For the diamond shape we made kites that held confetti, macaroni and feathers between two transparencies. It was mesmerizing to watch the pieces fall back and forth as you tilted the kite.
What could be more yummy than making pizza while learning about shapes?! Everyone became min-chefs when we made mini triangle shaped pizzas. Mmm. We also painted an ocean on tin foil and added little triangle fish swim around on it. We even had some stingrays made.
I am a R-O-B-O-T. We pieced together robots using different sized rectangles. We learned that rectangles can be tall and skinny, fat and short, standing up or laying down, and even diagonal. The kids also did a great job finding and collecting objects that were in the shape of a rectangle during our scavenger hunt.
A pentagon is like a drawing of a house; it has a roof, two walls and a bottom. It was quite funny to watch the kids try to form a pentagon with their bodies! We also spent some time wrapping yarn through and around a pentagon shape. This was great for practice in hand eye coordination and of course patience.
Unfortunately the air quality has not been too good this past week due to the forest fires, so we have not had as much outside time as we would like, but we have been spending a lot of time building forts and caves uses our sticks and balls kit. There are so many different things to build! Also, beware the bears that live in these caves…they are very quiet, very sneaky and quite cute!
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