Sometimes simple activities like this can keep kids busy for hours and give their imagination and creativity more room than many other expensive toys.
Category Archives: Math
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Aug
Aug
I am astounded by the amount of work expected from 5 year old at Foundation level. Writing 25 words a day, reading books, completing allocated digital work, answering questions … how did this happen? I don’t remember all this happening at prep for my other kids? So yesterday the school was having a disco party […]
12
Aug
Aug
Eassa developing his maths skills through play. So much is happening here: %ordering shapes according to size %Grouping similar colour and size %Making ten from various sizes %Looking at part and whole %Cardinality – realising that what was counted remains the quantity of the set There are so many opportunities to do maths at home […]
Learning colours with Eassa. Please feel free to use and adapt to suit your toddler. Check full nasheed @
07
Aug
Aug
الجدة: عيساوي انت شكد حلو، اريد اكلك. عيسى ( بجدية) : بس إذا اكلتيني يطلع طفل ثاني من بطنج! Grandmother: Eassa you are so sweet, I want to eat you up. Eassa (very serious): If you eat me up, then another baby will come out of your stomach!
07
Aug
Aug
Who said 5 year olds are too young to study Islamic geometry? Yesterday afternoon, I was working on my own looking at the various base structures of Islamic geometric patterns. Eassa was sitting next to me drawing in his book. I didn’t realise he was actually watching me sketch and copying me. This is the […]
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Jul
Jul
Eassa has been developing his number sense learning one to one correspondence, connecting groups with number names, classification, patterns, conservation (a given number does not change), counting forward and backwards, skip counting etc. These skills form the foundation of whole number development as well as maths facts and mental calculations. Finding new and engaging ways […]