I wanted to introduce Sophia to some basic shapes and reinforce preschool skills for Audrey, especially since she still confuses the triangle and square. As a elementary school teacher, I remember students being much more engaged in a lesson when they could claim some sort of ownership to a project. In this case, I made the shapes without color and allowed Audrey to color them herself. Plus, it saved me a lot of money on expensive color ink:) Another plus is that both my 3 year old and 17 month old can benefit and learn from one set of printables!
Directions:
*print the shapes
*color
*laminate, cut out and attach magnets
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Lessons learned:
*shapes
*colors
*initial sounds
*matching words to pictures
Sophia mostly liked taking them on and off. She did like naming/pointing to the colors. We would say, “Sophia, where is the RED rectangle?”
cute idea to work on shapes!
What a great way to get them both involved! I know Sammy loves when he gets to do a port of the project himself!
Are you familiar with the work of Pat Cunningham from 4 blocks? She suggests tracing around the shape of the word so kids differentiate between tall, small, and fall letters…{I have a word wall post coming up this week that will demonstrate better}
Love this idea!