Introducing rectangles and contextualising shapes.

The more we infuse the learning of shapes and colours into our daily living, the easier it will be for our children to learn these concepts.

This week we are introducing rectangles and have created this fun worksheet as a way to contextualise shapes into daily living.

Did you know in order for children to be able to read and write they first need to develop their visual discrimination skills? Otherwise one number or letter can look much the same as another!

Visual discrimination is the ability to pay attention to details and see differences and similarities in different objects or symbols such as shape, colour, size etc.

This activity will help your children to develop visual discrimination skills!

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Benefits: Developing visual discrimination skills, learning of shapes Circle, Triangle, Oval, Rectangle, Square

The colour grey.

Our hippo is grey…what other things are grey? Rain clouds? The road? Some rocks and stones? Let’s spend some time this week looking for grey things together.

Included in our foundational concepts this week are some “H” themed nursery rhymes:

Benefits include: Language development, rhythm and rhyme (pre-reading skill), fine motor development (actions)

“Hickory Dickory Dock”
(Learning counting and tactile movement pattern good for sensory integration)

“Hey diddle, diddle”
(learning positional words)