We did other learning activities over the last few days. We played a game of toothpicks and straws, which helps improve eye-hand coordination. Stuck some toothpicks into a styrofoam box and got the kids to put small cut pieces of straw bits onto the toothpicks. Easy-peasy activity for nat, although she was very intrigued initially, repeating the capping and removing action many times. By sticking the toothpicks in deeper or shallower, they also appear at different heights, so I was able to show her the differences between tall and short. She grasped the concept very quickly. It just goes to show that when teaching kids, it's very important to let them see visually and feel and experience for themselves.
Another activity which I learnt from the internet is a game of pasting stickers on the dotted lines of shapes. Both nat and didi enjoyed this activity. For nat, she loves stickers and while letting her indulge in her favourite activity, you can teach her about shapes. For didi, he just likes the sticky feeling on his little finger, and patting the stickers on the paper (haha, that is if he doesn't eat it first). When nat got bored outlining the shapes with stickers, she stuck the stickers inside the circle shape instead, forming eyes, ears, mouth, so interesting!
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