Playful Learning with Spielgaben is our monthly post sharing Spielgaben in action! If you missed the introduction to this series, you can see it here. We were given the Spielgaben set to review and are honored to have them as a blog sponsor.
Lessons We Enjoyed
We are using Spielgaben as a portion of her 1st grade math curriculum. For now, I am choosing lessons based on her needs. She has mastered many 1st grade level skills so I knew she didn’t need a full 1st grade curriculum. Spielgaben is a great fit for her right now!
Each week I choose lessons or worksheets for her and write them into our lesson plans. Yes, this takes a bit more time than following a pre-written math curriculum, but I want her working on what she needs. I wouldn’t have been as confident in doing this years ago, but now I am after homeschooling 2 other kids at this grade level!
Below you can see her lesson which is from Worksheet Set 2, Level 3, Activity 1 {in case you own Spielgaben and are looking for these specific worksheets, I will label them like this so you can easily find them}.
This worksheet introduced Sphere, Cylinder and Cube, which she loved!
On another day she worked on Worksheet Set 2, Level 3, Activity 3. Another way to explore these new shapes.
Much fun was had the day we used Worksheet Set 2, Level 3, Activity 4!
We explored 3D shapes by exploring the side, edge and apex with paint!
Note- we should have used a brown paint, or put tape over our blocks before stamping with them. They did absorb the purple paint she chose. We don’t mind but I figure many of you might! So, if you do this, be sure to add some tape to the parts of the block that will go in the paint and then peel off when finished. Also use a color closer to the block itself just in case!
She loved this so much, she asked to get more shapes out and make mystery pictures.
When the paint was dry we went back to the worksheet that inspired this lesson and drew in our findings.
Another recent lesson was from Worksheet Set 2, Level 3, Activity 2.
We used one of the soft yarn spheres and one of the wooden spheres to discuss similarities and differences.
This was pretty easy for her so I decided to take the opportunity to introduce her to Venn Diagrams and drew a quick one for her.
I am so pleased with her interest and learning so far. I was a bit hesitant to take this route {the more random week to week style} for her math, but so far, so good! I am enjoying her enthusiasm, she loves her Spielgaben lessons!
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