Kindergarten – Page 29 – St Ignatius College, Patri Ġużè Delia, Siġġiewi Primary

Fun Learning With Pegs – KG Activity No. 6

Fun Learning With Pegs

Practise the pincer grip: encourage children to peg small items on a clothes rack as this action is similar to the one needed for learning to write.

Experiment with sound: encourage children to drop pegs into bowls from different heights. Ask them: Do they sound different? Do different bowls make different sounds? (use plastic bowls and metal tins).

Practise sharing: by sorting colours ex. one child/adult takes the yellow and red pegs, while the other child takes the blue and white ones. Encourage children to do a chain of pegs joined together.

Create a repeated pattern: attach pegs to cardboard creating a pattern ex. 1 yellow, 1 blue, 1 yellow, 1 blue etc. Ask the child to continue the pattern. Encourage the child to create a pattern himself. You can make it more challenging by increasing colours.

Ms Pauline KG 1.3

Exploring Patterns : Kindergarten Activity No. 5

Patterns are arrangements of things that repeat in a logical way. These arrangements of colours, shapes, gestures, sounds, images, and numbers are a crucial concept for young children and contribute heavily to their early Mathematics understanding.

Have children create patterns using different coloured objects. These objects may be everyday objects such as bottle caps, buttons, sweets, toy building blocks, counters from board games etc.