Leap Ahead Learning Preschool: Shape up!

We started our unit on shapes this week. One of the art projects we did were our shape sculptures that were both 2-D and 3-D. We talked about how shapes are all around us, even in buildings and homes. We talked about how sculptures are art that are made with different materials, and then we made our own sculptures out of shapes.

Another art project we did were these shape clowns. We first colored our shape clowns, and then we practiced our cutting skills and cut them out. The kids did a great job cutting on the lines.

We also practiced our shape recognition with these shape pegboards. These pegboards are from Lakeshore learning and come with a triangle, a square, and a circle and then have the same shape of pegs to fit into the foam boards.

We used bendable wax sticks (bendaroos) to practice outlining our shapes. The wax sticks will bend into any shape and stay that way, making them perfect to use for tracing. And with the sticky wax texture, they stayed put on our papers nicely too!

We also had a reading center the kids could visit. I will continue to have this center quite regularly. I have added a couple of bean bags to the center and books that apply to the weekly theme. So, this week all of the books were centered around shapes. The bean bags are in the shape of a spider and a lady bug, so we found the saying, "Don't bug me, I'm reading" very appropriate. :)

We talked about the letters D and E this week. For the letter D, we use our dot markers to make dotted D's.

And for the letter E, we used one long popsicle stick, and three short popsicle sticks to make our big E.

We sorted shape buttons by filling up our shape jars.

And, you might think that this last center is a little "fishy", but the children were "hooked"! We used our water table and our magnetic shapes and fishing poles to see what shapes we could catch.