TEACHING BASIC SHAPES TO KIDS IN AN INTERESTING WAY

LET'S LEARN ABOUT SHAPES

Learning shapes helps children learn skills such as reading, math, and science. For example, an early step in understanding numbers and letters is to recognize their shape.

Hence before teaching alphabets and numbers a child should be able to recognize shapes.

What are the Basic shapes a preschooler learns first. 

 The basic shapes contains the most common shapes that your child will encounter daily in reading and writing, they are square, rectangle, circle, triangle, diamond and oval. These shapes are also simple to draw and a child picks up drawing these shapes at a very young age.

How to introduce a shape to a toddler ? 

It's never too early to introduce shapes to toddlers, you can start with different things and objects around you. Point out shapes around you and discuss what the shape looks like. Start with the simplest and most common shapes that your child sees daily, namely a square, rectangle, circle, oval, diamond and triangle. Keep repeating this with different objects.

Few activities you can do to teach shapes 

🔲 Sing the shapes song 🎵

🔺 Identify shapes around you 

🔲 Match shapes 

🔺 Make different shapes with clay 

🔺Cut out different shapes with a child safe pair of scissors✂

🔲 Make shape figures from paper

Easy ways to teach Primary colors to preschool

There are three basic Primary colors. 

🔴Red 

🌻Yellow and 

🔵 Blue 

Primary colors are those colors which cannot be created by mixing other colors in a given color space.

Children are able to point at a colour long before they can say its name. Hence during playtime, you can ask your child to pick up all the pieces of a particular colour and put them together. Hence it's important to stick to the primary colours – red, yellow and blue. You can add secondary colours later on.

Preschool is where colors are formally introduced to children, one color at a time.

Dedicating time to each colour separately is the best way to teach the concept of a color. Having a “red week” or a “yellow week” this helps children in understanding colours over time. Wearing coloured clothes, coloring or painting the same colour or recognizing and identifying toys with the same colour every week helps in color recognition and identification.

Here are some activities we are following for learning the primary colors.

LEARNING PRIMARY COLORS

LET'S LEARN THE COLOR RED ❤️ 

Some Simple activities

🌈 Draw an outline of an apple , cherries , balloons and make your child color them.

❤️ Dress them up in RED , remember to click pics and send us.

🌹Ask your child to identify objects with the color RED in the house.

🐞Put few toys with different colors and ask your child to separate RED color.

LET'S LEARN THE COLOR BLUE 💦💙🐟

🌈Dress your child in blue clothes.

🌈 Color , paint or stick blue paper in an outline of a boat or fish ( get creative ) 

🌈 Observe the blue sky and look around for blue objects in your house.

🌈Have fun 🐟

LET'S LEARN THE COLOR YELLOW 

☀️ Draw objects that are yellow color and ask your child to color or paint 🎨

☀️Make your child create the SUN and hang it around the room to remind us that we should always be kind. 

☀️Allow your child to identify yellow fruit 🍍🍌 and yellow vegetables 🍋🌽

☀️Yellow Day is a day of kindness and happiness. Wear yellow, be yellow, spread happiness.

Important tips 

🍅 Teach one color a day.

🐠🐟 Keep it simple. 

🐞Get creative and have fun.

Remember to have fun and let's teach our angels in the best possible way.

WORLD COCONUT DAY

Keep calm and drink coconut water coconut🥥🥥

World Coconut Day is celebrated every year on 2 September. The day is celebrated to highlight and raise awareness about the importance and benefits of coconut. Coconuts have multiple benefits and it's used in various ways in our day to day life. It is edible, and its oil is edible and can also be applied on our skin and as a hairoil. 

The day aims to celebrate the importance and usage of coconuts in our daily lives.

Some Benefits of coconut🥥

Coconut is a high fat fruit that has a wide range of health benefits. These include providing us with disease-fighting antioxidants, promoting blood sugar regulation, and also reducing the risk for heart diseases. 

🥥Highly nutritious

Unlike many other fruits that are high in carbs, coconuts provide mostly fat, protein,  important minerals, and  vitamins B. 

The minerals in coconut are involved in many functions in our body to keep fit and improve our immunity which is the need of the hour. 

Coconuts are high in manganese, which is important for bone health and the metabolism of carbohydrates, cholesterol and proteins. 

🥥 is rich in copper and iron, that help form red blood cells and selenium which are an important antioxidant that protects our body cells.

Coconut helps promote blood sugar control

Coconut is low in carbs and high in fiber and fat, hence it helps stabilize our blood sugar.

An interesting experiment on rats I came across while browsing the internet. 

When rats with diabetes were fed protein made from coconut meat, their blood sugar, insulin levels, and also glucose metabolism were much better than those that didn’t eat coconut protein. 

Also beta cells in their pancreas started making more insulin. 

The polyphenols found in a coconut prevents there oxidation of (bad) cholesterol, thus increases the risk of any heart disease. 

Coconut water is low in carbs and really rich in amino acids and fiber, thus making it a great for blood sugar control.

Some studies have also shown that antioxidants found in coconut oil help protect cells from damage and death caused by oxidative stress and chemotherapy as well. 

Coconuts contain a substance called polyphenol antioxidants that protects your cells from any kind of damage, this can reduce any kind of disease risk. Hence building up your immunity level which is the need of the hour right now, so whenever you can grab and sop on a coconut water,  it's not only a refreshing drink but a step towards building up your immunity. 

Coconut is a high fat fruit that has numerous health benefits. So let's see what they are. 

This provides you with disease-fighting antioxidants, promoting blood sugar regulation, and also reducing the risk of a heart disease.

Remember that 🥥 is very high in fat and calories, so it's really important to watch your portion sizes if you are trying to lose some weight or you need to follow a low-fat diet.

🥥 You can eat it raw or dried,  the coconut meat is delicious and easy to add into both sweet and savory dishes like curries, gravies and vegetables as well. 

Coconut is a healthy food that satisfies our hunger and thirst as well in the most healthy way. Coconut water is extremely beneficial for our health, It keeps our stomach strong and healthy and our body cool in the extreme heat of the sun. Going for a walk along the seashore, sitting in the hot sand, and not drinking a fresh coconut water, is what completes a holiday. So when we go for a walk in the sea and lie or sit on the beach, we should make it a point to drink coconut water. And take some awesome pictures with coconuts, sipping on coconut water. 

Cost of a coconut

It costs around ₹50 to ₹70 per coconut, depending on the size. It's peeled and served with a straw and after drinking the water the coconut is removed and served in the coconut shell. 

To avoid major illnesses it's safe and healthy to keep coconut water in your diet. 

Sun, sand and coconut water is my definition of a holiday, what's yours... Mention in the comments below.