Best Time of Year!

School supply sales are on! My plans are mostly to update my art supplies with crayons, markers, colored pencils, glue sticks, and watercolor paints. But I love just browsing through the world of new school supplies, it makes me want to get ready for a new year of teaching my babies!

Tuesday: Squares

Tuesday we sponge painted. In particular we used square shaped sponges. I had a large square sponge and a few smaller square sponges. I held up the big one and reintroduced her to the word square. Then asked to make squares on the paper. She seemed to enjoy it a lot.

Tuesday: Squares

Today I introduced squares to Angel Girl. First I showed her a large square that I had cut out. I told her about 4 sides and 4 corners. Then I sang her this song:
This Is a Square - sung to "Frere Jacques"
This is a square, this is a square.
How can you tell? How can you tell?
It has four sides,
All the same size.
It's a square, it's a square.
(she didn't really get the song but I figure we can revisit it often enough)
Then we did a square picture. I got some foam squares that I let her glue on and make a picture with. I used the word square as much as I could so she could hear the word while she was manipulating the shape. She loved this activity and is really proud of the picture that she made.

P.S. This was part of the art process gluing I am introducing this month. We used a glue stick and I showed her how to hold it and to put the glue on the foam square. She got putting the glue on but I had to help her a lot with flipping it over to put on the paper.