Teaching Two » shapes http://www.teachingtwo.com Thoughts of a mommy & teacher. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:44:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Shape Pictures http://www.teachingtwo.com/2010/02/21/shape-pictures/ http://www.teachingtwo.com/2010/02/21/shape-pictures/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:20:31 +0000 Anne projects mother christmas bags craft made http://www.teachingtwo.com/2010/02/21/shape-pictures/ Last Christmas my mother in law made a few bags of fun crafts for the girls.  The other day after dinner we decided to get out the shape pattern stickers.  I have no idea what these are really called or where to get more so if anyone knows please tell me.  They come with four sheets of different colored shapes and pictures of how to make different animals.  The girls loved making them and figuring out what shapes went where.  Then we got out the crayons to make the backgrounds.  These are great for creating but also for teaching shapes and following directions.  Like I said before, if you know what they are called or where to get more let me know!

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Emily working hard on her turtles.

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Ashlyn’s finished picture.

]]> http://www.teachingtwo.com/2010/02/21/shape-pictures/feed/ 2 Shapes with Foam http://www.teachingtwo.com/2009/07/28/shapes-with-foam/ http://www.teachingtwo.com/2009/07/28/shapes-with-foam/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:35:05 +0000 Anne tape foam duct white open ended markers colored http://www.teachingtwo.com/2009/07/28/shapes-with-foam/ I found this fun idea here and Ashlyn loved it so much that she ended up making two.  All you need is some white foam, tape (I used duct tape but painter’s tape would probably work better), and some markers.  She put the tape on the foam however she wanted and then colored in the white parts with markers.  She peeled the tape off to see what design she created!

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I love the book Mouse Paints so when I saw Mouse Shapes I knew I had to get it.  Emily loves working with shapes so I decided to do an activity with her from the book. It took a little longer to cut all the shapes the night before but I was watching The Bachelor (yes, I admit it) so I was fine.

I read the book to her and we talked about all the shapes on the pages.  Next I asked her to put the shapes I had cut out into groups.  Kids love to sort things at this age.  We started with the first page and made a house using a square and a triangle.  Next she made a tree using a triangle and a short rectangle.  She continued making the pictures by using the shapes that matched the pictures in the book.

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She loved this book!

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Concentrating on making her fish.

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These are some of the things she made using her shapes.

 

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I cut out some shapes from different colored construction paper.  I cut a circle, rectangle, triangle, and half circle.  Then I told Emily to put the shapes on a white piece of paper as I called them out.  So I would say, “Emily, where is the triangle?”  and she would place it anywhere on the white paper.  Once she “found” all the shapes I asked her to put them where she wanted them on her paper to make a picture.  She had no idea that is was supposed to be a boat but I wanted to see what she would make.  She ended up telling me she made a person with a hat on.  Then I told her we were going to make a boat.  I told her where the half circle should go and she was able to figure out the rest. 

This is a fun activity that can be done many different ways with lots of different shapes.  You can let your child be creative and put the shapes anywhere to make their own pictures.  When Ashlyn finished making the boat she asked for crayons and stickers to finish her picture.  Another idea would be to make something and then have them try to copy it using the same shapes.  I love activities that can be repeated and still be just as fun!

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After Emily identified the different shapes.

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Mondays- Sight Word practice-
*cut out letters in magazines to make her words
*I type a short paragraph using as many of her words and give her a highlighter to find them all. Then she draws a picture of what it says.
*using letter tiles she spells out some of her words
* practices writing some of her words
*word searches with her words in it

Tuesdays- Puzzles
*this is the same each week.
*I give her two 24 piece puzzles to do. She loves Puzzle Tuesdays!

Wednesdays- Math Activity
* tangram shapes
* worksheets on numbers, patterns, or sequencing
* I’ve also started an estimation jar with her. I put a different number of bears in it and she writes how many she thinks are in the jar on a post it note.

Thursdays- Craft or Art Project
*making any b-day cards for friends or family’s b-days that are coming up.
*free drawing
*Sometimes I give her different sized shapes and tell her to make something by gluing them together.

Fridays- Free Friday
* She gets to decide what I put out for her. It can beplaying school, dolls, her pretend cash register is a favorite, Lite Bright, drum machine, her tea set, etc.

Saturdays/Sundays- these days vary depending on the amount of time she has for room time. Usually she will just read books for a little bit. I also have her listen to books on CD, which she loves.

She looks forward to her room time and sometimes gets upset when we have plans and she can’t have it. It’s funny how kids cling to the routine. Hope this helps!

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