I love that even while doing a variety of activities I can still throw in Shape Awareness into them. During, our activities we talk about what shapes we are using and how we can use them to create the art using them. One that really stuck through for this was our snowman names. We talked about what the shapes were. Then, we talked about what we can do with those shapes to build a snowman. One of the older children told me that "we should use perfect circles to make the snowman because they look better that way."
My younger ones do not know there shapes yet. My older ones tell them about the shapes and then they repeat what my older ones say. We use our shape cards to go through the different shapes during the day. Allowing children to have reputation will improve their chances of learning the shape and allowing them properly identify them.
I use shapes to help the children learn their letters as well. For example, we talk about half a circle for letter C and then give him a line to his tummy to make an E. This little things may seem silly but my two year old now knows these two letters by this. I feel that finding shapes they know in their letters helps me greatly improve their chances of them learning the letters.
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My younger ones do not know there shapes yet. My older ones tell them about the shapes and then they repeat what my older ones say. We use our shape cards to go through the different shapes during the day. Allowing children to have reputation will improve their chances of learning the shape and allowing them properly identify them.
I use shapes to help the children learn their letters as well. For example, we talk about half a circle for letter C and then give him a line to his tummy to make an E. This little things may seem silly but my two year old now knows these two letters by this. I feel that finding shapes they know in their letters helps me greatly improve their chances of them learning the letters.
I receive all these materials from Mother Goose Time in exchange for my honest opinion of how we use and feel about the materials and the curriculum.
www.mothergoosetime.com