I had a large die that we used for learning colors way back when Bear was little. I added some sticky notes with action words, like crawl, clap, arm circles, hop, and a couple more. The we rolled the die and had to do whatever action to the color posters at the other end of the room.
Bear crawling to the posters. (She crawls with her knees off the floor because the tiles are so hard!)
I also made these posters for her when she was first learning colors.
We ran back and forth across the room calling out colors (supposedly in French, but Bear was being stubborn about saying them only in English) and then hitting the poster of the color that had been called out.
I saw this activity (or something quite similar) on My Bilingual Boys. It's an empty ornament box. I put stickers inside on which I had written the numbers.
Bear climbs some plastic boxes we have, then kneels and drops her felt strawberries into the container while I call out the numbers they landed in. I try to have her call out which number she wants the strawberry to fall in.
What do you do to make your learning activities more active?
These are some great ideas... I'm sure I have some ideas to share, but my mind seems to be drawing a complete blank... isn't that the way of life some days?
ReplyDeleteI love your ideas, but I admit that I kind of split academics and physical activities here most of the time. We just chase each other, play hide-and-seek or go outside. Even though I love teaching academics (and probably better at it than at just playing with my daughter) I want her to have some play time with no learning strings attached, so to speak :) However, your ornament idea just gave me an excuse to keep a pretty box from Brandy Beans that we devoured in one evening and teach Anna two digit numbers using this box :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun idea! I usually spend my time trying to make my toddler LESS active during "learning time." ;) We've just started incorporating victory dances when he gets things right during certain activities though (arms in the air, dance in a circle). He loves it, but I don't know how he doesn't fall over, doing it so many times in a row.
ReplyDeleteThinking about this more, the reason I'm always slowing him down is that I feel like he falls whenever he runs fast (he's 2). So I pretty much spend my day going, "stop! slow down! walk!" in the house. Wonder when I will lose that feeling like he'll take a header whenever we play. :)
ReplyDeleteTo be honest I do not do enough activities like these and he really likes them. Today Diego did want to read one of his books about planets and we later played spaceship with his swingset and "landed" on different planets. I guess that counts. :)
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