Shapes

I've decided to start weekly themes for Douglas. Through play and crafts I want to "teach" him things. The theme for this week is shapes. We are doing a different thing each day to learn the basic shapes. Today we read Douglas' shape book and then with masking tape we made a large square, circle, and triangle on the kitchen floor. Then we "drove" Lighting McQueen, Mater, and Filmore (all from the movie 'Cars') along the shapes. Douglas mainly just pushed the cars on the kitchen floor. However, I would have Mater and say "Mater wants to drive on the triangle, show him where that is" and he would do that. It was fun playing with him. He is into the characters from the movie Cars BIG time right now. He got the blue Lighting McQueen and Filmore for Easter and he already had red Lightening McQueen and Mater so all day yesterday and for most of today so far he's been pushing his cars around. Today is Tuesday which is our day for Muffin tin meals (see previous post). So I kept with our shape theme.Egg (circle), Milky way (square), grapes (circle), ham (cirlce attempt), cheese triangles, square crackers .

I thought the purpose of this muffin meal was in vain until at the end he held up a piece of cheese and said "look, triangle." So rewarding!