Shapes revisited

So after our first day of shapes with KK and Buddy, I decided we needed to do it again. I didn't feel like either of them got what I wanted them to. I wanted Buddy to learn the basic circle, square, and triangle. I wanted KK to know the shapes and be able to make them. I set out the basic shapes for Buddy and named them and pointed to them a couple of times. I asked him to pick up each shape I named. He did ok. 

Then to really cement the shapes in his head I had him put the circle on his nose, head, eye, feet, etc. 

We put two different shapes together to make ice cream. This got us very distracted for a while. So I let him go with it and just tried to keep saying the shape names. 

Buddy tried to make more shapes with the cotton balls. 

Made a house shape with Buddy. 

For KK I had her try to make the shapes with her fingers in the air and also with her body. Just another way to see if she knows the shapes. Also a different approach since KK didn't do great with the cotton ball shapes. 

She had fun with it!

I told her to find different shapes and she had to do different things on them. 

Circle

Rectangle

Then I drew just a circle and square on a piece of paper. Here my goal wasn't for them to be able to draw them, but just another reinforcement of the shapes. 

Buddy enjoyed coloring his paper. 

KK tried to draw circles. 

KK also continued on the letter Cc today. We did our usual and then Cc is for clothes. 

I laid out clothes for her with Cc's and other letters on them. She had to pick out the Cc's and I hung them on the Clothes line. 

The older two did sharp and rounded.  First I had the girls make sharp and rounded shapes with their bodies. They could do this any way they wanted. Doodle's sharp and....

round.

Roo's sharp.

This is my poor drawing of a sharp and rounded house. 

Here the girls put some cubes in the top and the rounded or sharp pieces in the bottom. 

We laid them out by shape and felt the rounded and sharp with our feet. 

Roo wanted to reorganize them better. ;-)

Then I had them run around and put their noses on round or sharp item, whichever once I shouted out. It was a little tricky but good. I also made them each find their own sharp or round things. This was good because often Doodle will just copy Roo, especially with them being so close in age.  This forced Doodle to use her own knowledge and skill. 

The older girls seemed to like how I have books to match our lesson for the littles. So I found these two books to go along with our lesson. They really didn't talk about sharp and rounded in the way we did, but they enjoyed it. 

What did you do with your kids today?