Aidman has been really into shells lately. On Sunday he collected an entire bucket of shells at the beach. Today he sorted them into about 5 different groups. Then I sat down with him and showed him more differences between the shells and we ended up with 10 different types of shells. We found this website and Aidman held the shells up to the computer screen to figure out the names of each shell. I then wrote the names of the shells on a sentence stripe and taped a shell to it so that we could always identify them.
Then Aidman wanted to sort the shells again by putting them on the sentence stripes, Lyssy had fun doing it too.
Then I asked them if they wanted to make chimes with their shells. I had seen this at Read 'Em and Leap and thought it was super cute. The only problem we had was that after it dried, our washable tempera painted flaked off the bowl while I was trying to tie on the strings.
The thing that surprised, impressed, and made me proud the most was that all of this AWESOME learning was prompted and led by Aidman, but I guess the best learning is always child led.
3 comments:
Isn't that the truth!!! The best learning is always child led. But moms are always great at helping the child lead-great job!!
Wow, I can't wait for my daughter to develop some interests of her own. It's fantastic that you live in a place where you can collect 10 different seashells during the afternoon visit to the beach. It looks like it was a fun activity for everyone.
We would love to send Aidman and Lyssy a letter! Lulu is really excited about this project so the more the merrier! Just email me your address and we will send you a letter - in return we ask that you send us a letter back. Hope you join us!
Love the chimes!
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