Tangrams

My daughter has tangrams that are included in her math minipulative kit. Mr. Wheels loved to play with them. So I downloaded tangrams sheets for him to place the shapes on.  He had difficulty determining that the shapes were real life objects. So I found this book

Tangramables : A Tangram Activity Book by Martschi 

This book has some activities in the front and then it has pictures that are under the tangrams. I bought it used from Amazon and it included tangrams that were for an overhead projector, they are transparent. He can place the tangrams on the pictures and see the picture through the tangrams. Eventually he will be able to determine the shape of the object, but for now he can minipulate the shape and gain those spatial math skills. 

Horse Art

Tessa has found a new love. She has been drawing. At this point she isn't producing her own content, but she is watching YouTube drawing tutorials. She drew this horse and then painted it. It is very gratifying for her because it looks good when she is done. 

Tangrams and Mighty Magnets

Mr. Wheels needs or be kept busy. He wants to be a part of school while I am teaching Tessa. He likes to do these activities. He gets board fast so I have other items in the bin to keep him busy. When he finishes his items in his bin he gets to play and watch something on the IPad. He seems to enjoy it all.

Letter F

This week we studied the letter F. This is just a few of he the fun activities we did. 

Letter E

This week we studies the letter E. I downloaded these letter pages from Confessions of a Homeschooler. This is one of the items we did this week. He gets overwelmed if I have him do this all by himself I have to put out only a few of the pattern blocks and ask him where they go. I know that in time he will be able to do this without much help. This is only one of the activities we did this week.

Egyptian Wall Painting

Tessa is studying Egypt so she is making a wall carving. The carving has her name in hieroglyphics and a picture of a Egyptian girl. First she traced her picture onto see through paper. We made the self drying dough from a recipe we found on the internet. We placed it in  a pan with wax paper under it. We placed it aside for about a day. Once it was almost dry she put her drawing upside down onto the clay. She then took a pencil and drew over her drawing so that the pencil would transfer onto the clay. We waited again for it to dry completely. As it dried it split apart in one large crack. Then as it dried even further the crack pulled apart so that it was in two pieces. I fixed it with decoupage and painted the rest of the picture with it. Once that dried she used paint and sharpie markers to paint it.

She still has to finish the painting.