Shoe Store
Transforming the housekeeping center into a shoe store provides 3 and 4 year olds with many opportunities to measure. Children take off their shoes, and a shoe clerk measures and matches feet with shoes of the correct size. Purses and wallets may also be sold at the shoe store, and children can decide which purse or wallet holds the most. Boxes of various sizes can be used as shoeboxes. The shoe store employees must be sure that both shoes in a pair can fit into one shoebox. In addition to measuring, children also sort, count money, write receipts for purchases, and develop language skills in this activity center.
Coin Match
In this game for a small group of children, bags containing pennies, dimes, nickels, and quarters are prepared and distributed to the players, bach bag has the same number and type of coins. The children hold their bags of coins behind their backs. The leader of the activity picks one coin from her bag and displays it to the group. The other players try to find a matching coin in their bags but are not allowed to look they must find the matching coin by touch only.
Children quickly notice that the quarter is the easiest coin to find. It is big¬gest and, as the children sav, "more different" than the other coins. The penny is often the hardest coin for the children to find.
Oobleck
Children mix two parts cornstarch with one part water to make a substance called oobleck. Oobleck is a strange mixture that shifts between a liquid and
a solid stateit can be temporarily molded into a solid shape, but within seconds reverts to a liquid form. The mixture is an excellent cleaner for children's hands and can also be used to clean water or sand tables.
When cornstarch and water are mixed together, children have an opportunity to measure both a powder and a liquid as accurately as possible. Then they can practice measuring various amounts of oobleck and explore its properties at the same time.
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