Category: Spatial Awareness (IT C 9)

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

7/2/2020

Pouring Activity

Source: Cognitive ToyBox

Setup multiple bottles, cups, handheld containers, etc. and fill them with various materials (wet or dry) you don’t mind having spilled. Encourage the child to practice pouring the materials back and forth between the different bottles, cups, containers, etc. A fun way to practice hand-eye coordination.

Recommended Age: Birth-2 year old
Activity Type: Offline Activity
Key Concepts: Fine Motor, Spatial Relations, Classification
Alignment: IT-PMP 6, IT-PMP 7, IT-PMP 8, IT-C 9, IT-C 10

Today's Activity for 2-3 year olds!

7/2/2020

A FlashLight Scavenger Hunt

Source: Cognitive ToyBox

Turn off the lights and hide some objects around the house for everyone to go find with a flashlight.

Recommended Age: 2-3 year olds
Activity Type: Offline Activity
Key Concepts: Communication, Spatial Relations
Alignment: IT-LC 3, IT-LC 4, IT-LC 5, IT-LC 6, IT-C 9

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

6/26/2020

Pom Pom Push

Practice fine motor skills by taking a plastic container and cut holes in the top (can use any item with holes in it) and let them push the pom poms (or any small item) through the holes. Use cardboard tubes taped to the wall for a vertical challenge. Encourage the children to count the number of pom poms used. Use different sized items with holes in them and/or different sized pom poms.

Recommended Age: Birth-2 year old
Activity Type: Offline Activity
Key Concepts: Fine Motor, Spatial Relations, Classification
Alignment: IT-PMP 6, IT-PMP 7, IT-PMP 8, IT-C 9, IT-C 10

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

6/24/2020

A FlashLight Scavenger Hunt

Source: Cognitive ToyBox
Turn off the lights and hide some objects around the house for everyone to go find with a flashlight.

Recommended Age: Birth-2 year old
Activity Type: Offline Activity
Key Concepts: Communication, Spatial Relations
Alignment: IT-LC 3, IT-LC 4, IT-LC 5, IT-LC 6, IT-C 9

Today's Activity for 2-3 year olds!

6/22/2020

Filling the Backpack

Source: Cognitive ToyBox

Pick as many items as you want from different rooms around the house. Call out each item for your child to find and have them grab it, bring it back, and put it in the backpack. Variations can include increasing the number of steps and/or items before placing items in the backpack.

Recommended Age: 2-3 years olds
Activity Type: Offline Activity
Key Concepts: Spatial Relations, Classification, Quantity
Alignment: IT-C 9, IT-C 10, IT-C 8

Today's Activity for 2-3 year olds!

6/15/2020

Setting Sizes

Source: Vroom #561
As you and your child set the table, take turns holding things up and asking, “What is bigger? What is smaller?” You might compare a plate with a container, their cup and your cup, a large bowl and small bowl, etc.

Recommended Age: 2-3 year olds
Activity Type: Offline Activity
Key Concepts: Comparing and Measuring, Size
Alignment: P-MATH 3, P-MATH 4, IT-C 9

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

6/10/2020

Opposites

Source: Cognitive ToyBox
Select a few easy opposites, like sad-happy, up-down, big-small, etc. and have your kid act them out. You can also encourage them to speak the words.

Recommended Age: Birth-2 year olds
Activity Type: Offline Activity
Key Concepts: Exploration and Discovery, Imitation, Spatial Relations
Standards: ATL-REG 3, COG 1, IT-C 1, LLD 2, IT-C 9

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds

6/5/2020

Putting it Together

Source: Zero to Three
Between 6 and 12 months, babies begin to understand how different objects work together—what they can do in relationship to the other. To practice this skill, offer your grandchild some small, easy-to-grasp blocks and show him how he can drop them into a bucket, plastic cup, or bowl. Combining the block and the cup shows an early understanding about how things go together.

Recommended Age: Birth-2 year olds
Activity Type: Offline Activity
Key Concepts: Spatial Relations
Alignment: IT-C 9

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

6/1/2020

Open-Close, In-Out

Source: Vroom #603
Cooking dinner? Give your child some safe plastic containers to open and close. Say “open” and “close” as they play. Show them how to put things from the kitchen, like spoons, in and take them out of the containers. Say “in” and “out.” Make sure to talk to them about what they’re doing.

Recommended Age: Birth-2 year olds
Activity Type: Offline Activity
Key Concepts: Scientific Thinking, Exploration and Discovery, Spatial Awareness
Alignment: IT-C 9, IT-C 1, IT-C 2

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

5/15/2020

Shadow Sharing

Source: Zero to Three
Babies have limited vision in their first few months but they are tuned in to contrasts between light and dark. At bedtime or naptime, slowly move a flashlight beam across the wall or ceiling of your grandbaby’s room. See if she can follow it with her eyes. As she grows, she will get better and better at following the moving beam—this skill is called “visual tracking.”

Recommended Age: Birth-2 year olds
Kind: Offline Activity
Key Concepts: Spatial Awareness
Standard: IT-C 9

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Daily Family Activities

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

Pouring Activity

Today's Activity for 2-3 year olds!

A FlashLight Scavenger Hunt

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

Pom Pom Push

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

A FlashLight Scavenger Hunt

Today's Activity for 2-3 year olds!

Filling the Backpack

Today's Activity for 2-3 year olds!

Setting Sizes

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

Opposites

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds

Putting it Together

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

Open-Close, In-Out

Today's Activity for Birth-2 year olds!

Shadow Sharing

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A FlashLight Scavenger Hunt

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A FlashLight Scavenger Hunt

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Opposites

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Is your school closed or preparing plans for closure because of the coronavirus (COVID-19)? Get help here.

Filling the Backpack

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Open-Close, In-Out

Shadow Sharing