Sindhu's cocoon: July 2020

Saturday, July 18, 2020

Measurement Scavenger Hunt - Part 2

The last two posts on Scavenger Hunt, the Shapes Hunt and Measurement Part 1 turned out to be very interesting with my kids, so the next one in the STEM activity series is here, for my lovely Niece. She is in her grade 4 so planned for a comparatively effortful measurement activity. In this for few tasks, I gave her the measurement in prior and she needs to find the object which fits to that measurement. It turned out to be little laborious for her, as she measured more than five to six objects before finding an apt answer for the queries. This activity gives an opportunity for the kids to explore real time objects by measuring them. Encourage the kids to make a guess before measuring the object for its length, to shoot up their curiosity level!!

Don't forget to check on the earlier posts on Shapes Scavenger Hunt and Measurement Scavenger Part 1.
Happy Parenting😊😊😊

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Scavenger Hunt - Shapes

Kids find the term "Scavenger Hunt" very catchy!!! 😁😁On hearing the term they got so excited and kept nagging me what's the activity. To start with I did a simple one, Shapes Scavenger Hunt. Following this we did one more, the Measurement Scavenger hunt. I prepared two lists for my two boys. And I helped them with the writing work. They both raced to find the objects!!😀 And when they found the same object for a particular shape, I insisted them to find a different one. It was very fun and interesting.

Happy Parenting😊😊😊

Measurement Scavenger hunt - STEM activity for kids

Scavenger hunt is in our latest hit list😀. Walking around with a clipboard and pencil is so much fun. Scavenger hunt hones children working as a team, reading skills and analyzing skills.We started with a simpler one, the shapes scavenger hunt for my little ones. Recently LO got much interested in using measuring tape so I planned for this measurement scavenger hunt. We did two versions, one for my LO who is right now in his first grade and another one for my niece who is a 4th grader(which I will be posting sooner). Here the kids get introduced with the concepts of centimetre and inches.We used both flexible and retractable measuring tapes. Obviously the kids loved the retractable one.

For LO I prepared a list of items to be measured. It turned out to be a team work, LO did all the measuring work and his sister helped him with the writing part😍. It was a complete fun and kept the kids busy for quite sometime.

This is the list I prepared...