As Easter approaches I’m wracking my brain for ways to fit an egg or two into our daily learning. One of my favorites from this week was using eggs to work on the concept of patterns.
For the three year old, just coloring the egg in a two color pattern was enough.
For the five year olds, we talked about different patterns, adding in different shapes and colors and we worked on learning about the meaning of horizontal and vertical.
1. Cut out an egg shape (I cut out one for my 3 year old but had the 5 year olds practice cutting their own.)
2. Use a ruler to draw lines on the egg. (I drew them for my youngest and let the big kids trace their own.)
3. Have each child pick a color pattern for their stripes.
4. For older children, explain the concept of horizontal and vertical. Have them create a vertical pattern with colors and then a horizontal pattern of shapes or designs within each line. We had a little trouble at this point. We talked through the concept but McKenna fatigues quickly so her fine motor skills were spent from all the coloring. Stickers came to the rescue so she could finish her patterning.
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Oh what a fine first victim you have here 😉
Gigi already shares so much in the blogosphere, she is always leading into information to benefit the rest of us … and does it with such style and panache.
I SO look forward to reading her responses here and will not add more questions since her time is already stretched between her reading and and the wonderful comments that she leaves on our blogs.
Yay Gigi! (and yay Jessica for this cool/hot idea
xxx
LOVE LOVE LOVE this idea.
SO much.
And I have to start out with the obvious question.
What’s the secret of life?
Thank u for ur sweet well wishes on my blog!
Love your idea here!!
What a great idea, Jessica!!
Love Gigi and everything I would enjoy to asking her has already been asked above. Can’t wait for Monday’s answers. 🙂
This is a great idea Jessica. Truly awesome! A great way to get to know our bloggy friends even better.
And, I love Gigi. Awesome first Hot Seater! I haven’t been reading her for very long (late to finding her unfortunately…) so I’m not sure if the answer to my question is in her blog already.. but what is her favorite book of all time, you know the one you go to, to lose yourself in when the world has gone crazy and nothing is right.
Oh, this is awesome! What a great idea….and for Gigi to be the Initial Queen of Answers? Awesome.
My only question for Gigi, since I’m late to the game:
If blogging and social media had been on your radar when you were in Law School, would you have ever finished?
🙂
Ohhhh I love this.
Im really interested in numbers one and two b
Also do u ever get bloggy block?
What do u do
I think this is a very cool and fun idea!
I think others have asked something similar to this but,
1. How to you balance your time? Do you have a daily writing/reading/social media time?
2. If you could be any 90’s cartoon character which one would you be?
Great idea. I haven’t read her blog yet. So not sure what she has answered.
omg, what a fun idea! I remember in Sociology in high school we had to do the hot seat every Friday. When it was my day, I skipped class! LOL
I am the same way, would never want to sit in the hot seat, which is why I appreciate Gigi that much more!!
If you had to give up one of your five senses, which would it be? No, I’m teasing.
I adore Gigi and respect her too much to ask her to play such a silly game.
If you and your family were in a lifeboat and there was only room for 3 of you. No, wait.
Your favorite color? Who was your first kiss? Okay, I’m kidding.
Describe your perfect job. Is it in social media? If it miraculously paid the bills, would it be something you’re already doing? (Yeah, I know, I can’t count.)
Now come on, someone burn Geeg’s buns!
Awesome idea, although I’ll be using the idea more to learn more about new (to me) bloggers. I’m still getting my feet wet in that area.
Being a ‘veteran’ blogger, I’d like Gigi to give us a brief tour of “A Day in the Life” of a blogger. How do you balance it all?
Awesome idea! I look forward to learning more about all my favorite bloggers! Mwahaha…
What a fabulous idea! And Gigi— you are getting around today, my friend! Here’s my question: Gigi— Since you seem to be such a fan of reality television, what is the one show you secretly would like to participate in?
I LOVE THIS FEATURE, J!
Awesome.
I’ve known wonderful Gigi from my very first days of blogging…I just want to tell her that I love how she loves to blog about blogging.
Because I love to read about all things blogging.
I really would miss Gigi if she ever decided to try something else.
I truly would.
cool idea!
So we know you’re going to rename the whoopie pie, geeg. But do you actually eat them? Or are you still in the cupcake camp?
What an interesting idea…
I like all of the questions so far. Hmmm….my questions: what is your favorite TV show and what is your favorite drink?
I love this idea!!
Cool feature Jessica. Gigi is a great first person on the hot seat. My question to Gigi is how do you manage so many online network connections at once? Also what Elena asked I would like to know. I comment on a lot of blogs but I can only do so many in a day.
Great idea, Jessica!
Ok, question: playing off of Melanie setting aside time for writing but do you also set aside time for reading? There are so many blogs that I love to read but I’m also spending so much time writing – it’s hard finding a balance. How do you balance?
Oh hell, I feel my butt burning already! 🙂
Oh, what a fun feature! And I love Gigi.
Hmmm, let me think of something I haven’t asked Gigi. LOL
If you could spend one day completely w/o any obligations, what would you do?
Hey there,
First off, Jessica, what a brilliant idea! I look forward to getting to know other bloggers better.
My question for Gigi is: Because you’re such a prolific writer and blogger, I wonder – do you have specific scheduled times throughout the day, each day, set aside for your writing?
Oh how exciting! My burning question isn’t all that burning. But I know that Gigi writes for just about every site under the sun, and I want to know:
1) I know you’ve been at this gig longer, but where do you find these great freelancing opportunities?
2) How in the world do you keep yourself all together writing for so many sites and still honoring your family obligations? Do you sleep? Have a coffee IV inserted in your arm?