Sorting Fun

As you read in Monday's post, we are working with marshmallows this week! Today, we woke up to SNOW in the Midwest! Yup, we were wearing shorts last week and now it's back to Winter coats and sweaters underneath! YIKES! It was definitely an indoor learning day for the little tater tot!

You've seen him before, when he first learned how to use my craft punch! He had a blast just punching anything that was in the scrap bin! The circles were so cute and fun, I had to keep them for other projects!! We made some great stuff and I will continue to share them in future posts!

Materials:

We used a 1.5 inch punch, marker, plastic eggs and egg carton for this project.
I numbered each circle with 1 number 1-12.

We only used half of an egg in each of the holes and then put 1 circle in each one (yellow paper made them look like yolks!).

I handed him a bowl of marshmallows and told him to put the same amount of marshmallows in each numbered egg. It got tricky when it got to 8 and above, but it was still a lot of fun!!
Share your sorting activities in the comments!!

~Michelle!~

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Shaping Marshmallows

When the weather gets so windy that kids are blowing away, we look to indoor activities!! Marshmallows were just the right kind of thing to take a 3 year olds mind off of the water table! I decided we would work with shapes, toothpicks and marshmallows! Roman thought this would be a GREAT IDEA! (well he ate 6 of them first! haha)

 First we played! He wanted to build houses and have a town! That plan was short lived, when he started just adding to his first house.

He was having so much fun, that I decided to sneak a shape worksheet on, to see if it would go noticed. At first he built on it and then moved it aside, but before long, he was looking at it and ready to start making the shapes that he saw!

As he made them, I would point to the name and say it out loud. He thought some of the names were funny and was laughing more than building at some points. He would repeat them after I said them and he was learning, because he would say Octagon, Stop Sign! So he was slowly getting it and at this point more building of shapes than eating was happening! haha! All in all a successful little project!

Here is the worksheet I used, in case you would like to try it! It's perfect for using in other activities too, not just marshmallows! I love materials that can be used multiple times!!! Share some of your shape projects!

~Michelle!~

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Our Day!

Wow, it's not even 10am yet and Roman and I have been incredibly busy!

Rain Catcher!

After I took the big kids to school and he woke up, we hurried outside to check our rain catcher (not exact by any means, he made it with a ruler and applesauce jar and I just wrote the numbers where he said to), since we got a lot of water last night well into this morning! He was so thrilled, he wanted to play with it and a funnel, but it's too chilly for water play today! (Idea for rain jar came from here!)

Counting Marshmallows, Building with them and creating shapes!

I knew a melt down was coming if I didn't think of something cooler than playing with the rain water, so I ushered him inside and decided today would be our Marshmallow Day! I pulled some out along with an egg carton and he got to counting them (up to 12) and then we decided to make shapes out of them (using a polygon shape page) and finally we he decided he wanted to build with them! He had so much fun, that this lasted over an hour! (Another blog post will go into these activities in more detail).

Magnet Play!!

I'm off to drive the carpool in a bit, but this afternoon, we are going to be working with magnets again and seeing if has retained any information from before! What's even more fun is that Gabriel has only morning class today, so he will be able to join us!!

Punching circles!!

Hopefully this weekend sometime, I can squeeze in a stop to the craft store for more craft punches! He's been using my circle 1.5 inch cutter and having a blast! I would love to get many more geometric shape cutters, so that he can make a shape book in the future! So many plans, so little time!!

We had an AMAZING nature hike and picnic after school today, I will share more in another posting in the upcoming week!!

What did you do today???