Day 26: Counting with pasta jewels

Perth, April 17 2020

Day 26 of #covid19 #socialdistance.

Today we did some counting while practicing our hand-eye coordination through building pasta jewels. Since we are so good at counting to 10, today we counted to 15 using puzzles and pasta. We also noticed that after dividing pasta in groups of 5 pieces, 2 groups made 10 pieces and 3 groups 15.

After sorting and counting, we coloured pasta using our favourite colours, and put them out to dry. After then, with some threads and elastic threads, we built a bracelet and a necklace.

Learning outcomes:

counting

hand-eye coordination

Materials: colours, pasta possibly small with holes in it (the holes in the stars were too small for a 3yo to pass a thread into, as well as too small to handle with painting; the others were ok: Ditalini Barilla and mixed shapes from La Molisana, both available in local supermarkets), threads and elastic threads (we used those from clothes/shoes tags, that I use to keep rather than throwing away :D )