🔹🔺🔸 Patterns 🔹🔺🔸•Today’s prompt for #1newplayaday on Instagram is Patterns! I brought out our tangram jigsaw puzzle 🧩 (a.k.a. Tetris for those of us who used to play this game on a superannuated computer 👩💻 😜). This game is so fun and really addicting! There is always a new solution and if you can’t solve it the first time, just rearrange a few […]
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Here’s a fun way to learn greater and less than math problems using jumbo playing cards. We took out the face cards and used Ace through 10. We let the Ace card represent 1, and 10 is used as a 10, or when combined with, for example 5, it would be 105. I split the
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Using our dried up cloud dough which now has a consistency of fine sand 😃, I made these simple measuring worksheets for my boys to practice measuring with spoons. The worksheets helped to visually see what each measuring spoons capacity was, and compare it to the next unit up. I also made an equivalent worksheet
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We are making Apple Mummies as part of our Ancient Egypt studies! We are going to experiment to find out which material is the best at pulling the moisture out of an apple. Read on to learn more! Supplies: 1 apple Nylon knife to cut into apples (Adult Supervision required) White linen (we got ours
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I set out a tray with a different amount of dollars and coins in each compartment. Each compartment is labeled with a sticker that has either A, B, C or D in it. On a magic erase board or paper, I wrote down the letters and my 5 year old had to count and write
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My 5 yo started to inquire about mummies so this was my cue to set up a unit study to learn about this ancient civilization. For our books to read, I grabbed our Usborne Encyclopedia of World History, Historium, Ancient History, and an E-Book of The Magic Treehouse (Fact Trackers): Mummies and Pyramids. For hands-on
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For my 5.5 yo, I poured different amounts of colored water into a flask, a beaker and a graduated cylinder. I asked him which container did he think held the most water. Then, he had to determine if he was correct by using a measuring cup to measure each liquid. Afterwards, we talked about capacity
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