Each morning Hamish and I do an hours school work at the table where we concentrate on :
- Colours
- Shapes
- Numbers and counting
- Letters
- Pre writing skills
I’m not a fan of worksheets at this age (3 years) so a lot of our work is play related.
Yesterday we were inspired by a packet of jelly beans in our morning lessons.
Here are 5 ways to teach your child using jelly beans
For each of these activities you will need:
- White paper
- Black marker
- Jelly beans
1. Jelly bean Rainbow
There’s much talk about rainbows with #covid-19 and Hamish has become obsessed with them so this was a great way to have him sort the jelly beans into colours.
He had to, after sorting the colours make each colour by placing the right colour jelly bean onto the correct colour arch.
2. Jelly bean colour sort
For this I drew a coloured circle, gave him a few jelly beans and had him match them to the correct colour.
3.Count the jelly beans
I drew a jar with 10 jelly beans. Labled them 1 to 10 and had him count them out and place a jelly bean on each as a marker.
4. Counting jelly beans
We are doing number work and sums up to 5 this week so I stuck to only working up to number 5 but you can go as high as you like with this counting activity.
He had to place the correct amount of beans under each number.
5.J is for jellybeans
For this he first identified the letter J and then trace it with his finger.
Lastly he made a J with jelly beans ( We have already learnt all phonetic lower case sounds first and have now started to introduce upper case, so you may see a lot of upper case work on my page right now – please if introducing the alphabet to your child start with the phonetic sounds.)
These activities were a lot of fun and of course we both loved packing it all away.
