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Kindergarten Activity No. 7 : Matching and Sorting Shapes

Matching and Sorting Shapes

Below you can find a link to a YouTube video. This video is a mental warm up activity. Play it before starting the activities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUfqgRtvaYQ&feature=youtu.be

The following are two fun learning activities that are aimed to help children recognise and explore shapes by matching and sorting them.

Matching Shapes

Everywhere we look we see objects that have different shapes. Make your child find different kinds of shapes. Then, with a marker, help him/her outline the shapes found on a piece of paper. Encourage your child to match the correct object to the shape on the paper.

While matching shapes, children will notice the differences in these shapes.

The picture below is an example of how to match shapes. You can also use different shapes from the ones in the picture.

Sorting Shapes

Find some paper bags and draw different shapes on each paper bag. Then cut out different shapes (that match the shapes on the bags) from different kinds of paper.

Encourage your child to pick a shape, say it, and then put it in the bag that matches that shape.

The picture below is an example.

Ms Rosanne Mifsud

Siġġiewi Primary Stops Using Disposable Cups

As part of the work being undertaken by our hard working Ekoskola Committee led by Ms Doreen Spiteri, our school has stopped using disposable cups during Staff Meetings and Seminars. Read the full report by following this link.

https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/siggiewi-primary-stops-using-disposable-cups.780062

A big well done to all!

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.