Looking online for some ideas for A & J to try out. I kept coming across something called “cloud dough”. My most recent excursions got me to TinkerLab where Rachelle wrote about trying “cloud dough”. It’s a simple mixture of 8 cups of flour and 1 cup of baby oil. The cloud dough sounded like a lot of fun so I thought we should give it a try. Well it definitely did not disappoint and I know they will be asking to play with it again. In using the cloud dough I was able to incorporate a lesson on animal tracks. Here is what we did.
Manipulating Shapes
Continuing on with our shapes theme. A & J were given a set of plastic shapes to play with. They weren’t given any specific guidelines at first. If there’s one thing that I have learned with children is to let them explore something new on their own. Once they’ve been given the chance to explore they will typically pay more attention for instructions.
Pony Beads, Letter “C”, and Shapes
This week’s theme was shapes.
The first activity was threading pony beads onto a shoe lace. This gave A & J the opportunity to practice their fine motor skills, colors, and patterns. They were first asked to pick 2 colors and put them on the shoelace arranged into a pattern. They did this twice and shared their patterns with each other upon completion. I then allowed them time to simply play with the beads. They thought it was fun to fill the entire shoe lace and compare whose was longer. J couldn’t get the beads on his lace fast enough whereas his sister was putting them on 2 at a time. It was interesting to see their different approaches.
Daily practice
Since the beginning of September we have been doing “calendar” work.
I wanted to incorporate a little bit of structured time where A and J could practice listening in a controlled environment.
