Magnets are one of those magical toys that everyone loves. Children love them because they are intriguing, yet easy to master. Parents love them because they can use magnets to help their children develop a variety of skills. I especially love them because they involve children in active, hands-on learning activities. Whether you use ready-made magnet kits or homemade magnets, you can rest assured the lessons your child will learn will be ones that stick.
LANGUAGE SKILLS: As children play with magnets, parents can emphasize names, shapes and other characteristics. COORDINATION SKILLS: Magnets are a fun manipulative. As children attach and remove them from a metal surface, magnets help them develop their small hand and finger muscles, essential for learning to draw and to write. THINKING SKILLS: Magnets teach “cause and effect” and other important problem solving skills that are so essential for developing early brain connections. MATH SKILLS: As children play with magnets, they will be adding and subtracting them from a surface. They’ll learn concepts such as more and less, on and off, and size and shape. CREATIVE SKILLS: Magnets are open-ended toys. Children can manipulate them in various ways. Your child will be gaining experience in design, composition and color. This week we also were able to study and examine ladybugs. Ladybugs are insects. They are part of a group of insects called beetles. All insects, including ladybugs, have three main body parts: a head, thorax, and abdomen. They have six legs, two antennae, and special compound eyes so they can see in many directions at once. Many insects have wings. We talk about the body parts of a ladybug and compared it to our human bodies. If your kids caught ladybugs in the ‘Ladybug Investigation’ project, let them locate each body part on a ladybug as you talk about it. We then followed up with the book called The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle and created recycled ladybugs out of used paper bowls, paint and black scraps of paper. *REMINDERS* -No school Monday for Memorial Day. -Last day of school June 6th Shabbat Shalom, Courtney and Cindy
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