Tip top shape!

That's right, we are in tip top shape here! In fact, we were over our heads in shapes this week! We put all these shapes to good use though! Check out our shapes Brown Bear Books! Aren't the shape animals the cutest!?

We also practiced making some shapes with our cotton swabs. 

These animal shape puzzles gave us just the right amount of counting practice. Each puzzle had a certain amount of buttons missing from them (from 1 to 10) and after we added the missing button shapes, we counted them and then added that numbered puzzle piece to our puzzle.

We loved making elastic band shapes on our geoboards. We had the choice to make our own shapes, or follow the shape designs on our geoboard picture puzzles.

For another math center, we practiced our counting skills, while matching up our pegs to their correct shaped pegboard! This included circles, triangles, and squares. 

We talked about quite a few shapes this week! We practiced them with our shapes bean bag toss game. Each bean bag was thrown into its corresponding floor shape. We talked about circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, hearts, stars, hexagons, diamonds, pentagons, and octagons!

We learned about the letters E and F this week. We practiced our uppercase and lowercase letter recognition with our letter tic-tac-toe. Check out Boston's smile when he got three in a row!

We filled our shape jars to their tip top with shapes too! 

We also used our fine motor skills to trace our shapes with these wiki stix! These are great for tracing because they have a wax cover over the string, so if you push down on them, they stick to the surface you are working on! This is great to do with letters too!

We were creative in making things out of our shape magnets. Jackson has a truck that he built below! He used squares, rectangles, circle wheels, triangles and more!

For our writing center, we used our erasable shape writing cards. Each card instructed your child to trace, create, or practice making shapes, lines, and squiggles.

We also worked on making some lines and shapes with our snap, button, and zipper velcro strips and boards. Great zipper practice for our jacket season coming up!

And, this cute girl had a birthday!

Happy Birthday Peyton!

Rainbows and color mixing fun!

We talked about the secondary colors this week, and had a lot of color mixing fun! What better way to show the primary and secondary colors, than with rainbows!? For a color and word recognition craft, we made these giant ice cream cones in the order of a rainbow...red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. I found the printout for this craft here.

We practiced putting our colors in the correct order of the rainbow with our rainbow colored slap bracelets. It was really fun "slapping" these bracelets over and over again!

We had some playdough in the primary colors, red, yellow and blue. At this center, we used our finger and fist muscles and mixed, mixed, mixed to make orange, green, and purple!

This center was all about light and color! It is so fun to see the kids' reactions when they make a new color combination! Watching kids learn and make connections is awesome!

We made some patterns this week. Our ice cream patterns looked good enough to eat!! The kids 

had fun deciding what flavors each color would be.

We talked about the letter C this week. Our cuddly, curly, and colorful caterpillars were super fun to make!

A great color and number recognition game that I love to play with the kids during our colors theme is Hyperdash! This is a racing game that calls out a color (or a number, depending on the setting) and each child takes a turn racing to the next color. After so many turns, the game keeps track of their time, and they try to beat their score the next time!

We played with our shape blocks, to build different things like this shape person below.

And, we talked about sizes this week. This center helped display the difference between small, medium, and large. The items look identical, other than their size.

We were able to celebrate with this cute girl this week!

Happy Birthday Hilary!