Autumn store.
After we have collected all the vegetables from the garden (from the previous game), we arrange an autumn harvest fair - we buy and sell autumn vegetables and fruits. Instead of money - cards with leaves (a potato costs one leaf, a carrot costs two leaves, etc.). You can use real coins instead of cards. Let the seller be a cheerful hedgehog or bunny (soft toy), and the buyer be a baby.
When we played, I laid out cards with leaves in a row in front of the “counter” in ascending order to make it easier for the child to navigate them:
At our age (2 and 11), we confidently only count to two. Counting to three or four - we are just mastering it - apparently the child is not ready yet (we master counting very well if we play with coins in the store). But in this game with the number “three” it became better - Dasha began to quite confidently find three pieces of paper (probably thanks to previous games in the store), and even found four pieces of paper without a hint (I was surprised! After all, we haven’t gone through 4 yet! Apparently she figured it out on her own , since cards 1,2,3 did not match the description).
Learning to count.
We print out the table and cards (everything is very simple there, so if you don’t have a printer, you can draw everything by hand; any mother can draw leaves with a yellow pencil). They can be downloaded here.
Table:
Working with a table:
We count the leaves by running a child's finger or a pointer over them. The leaves are arranged in a traditional ladder - in this form it is easiest to learn the differences between one number and another. It would be nice to hang such a table on the wall in the room and periodically count the leaves with your baby. For fidgets who are very bored with counting some leaves (my daughter is exactly like that), you can make a fairy-tale dramatization. Let a hedgehog or a bunny come to visit, be interested in the sign and cheerfully count the leaves (for example, we told a fairy tale in which a hedgehog came to visit a bunny (soft toys), and the bunny told how he goes to a forest school and teaches mathematics there. The hedgehog became interested and asked to teach him how to count, which the animals did using a table).
A walk through the autumn forest is a fun exercise:
1. “Turn your head left and right.” Walking through the forest, we look to the sides - what is our autumn forest like?
2. We work on the strength of our voice, “stretching out the articulatory apparatus”:
Let's turn into an autumn breeze and quietly, quietly blow (in a quiet voice) “oo-oo-oo”. The leaves on the trees (fingers) move slightly.
Let's blow like a strong wind "Oooh!" - loud! The trees swayed from such a strong wind (they raised their hands up and swayed like trees).
We got lost in the forest, shouting “Ay!” First we scream quietly, then louder, then very loudly!
We approached the bear's den. The bear is already preparing for winter hibernation. He yawns! (open and close your mouth several times).
We collect autumn berries in the forest (imitate finger movements). Let's try the berries (make chewing movements).
How fun and good it is in the forest (smile!)
On the way we met a hamster! Wow, how many grains did he collect in his cheeks (puff up his cheeks like a hamster!)
Here is a squirrel gnawing on nuts! (teeth chattering).
But the squirrel got scared of us and ran away - it just waved its tail (the tongue waves like a squirrel's tail - we stick the tongue out between the teeth, move the tongue like a tail).
The squirrel decided to treat us with nuts. We gnawed on the nuts (our teeth are chattering again), and after eating the nuts we need to brush our teeth!!! (we circle the upper and lower teeth with our tongue).
Fun gymnastics “Autumn leaves”.
We are autumn leaves. (We move our heads left and right.)
We sat on branches. (Slowly raise our hands up, then smoothly lower them down.)
The wind blew - we formed a chain (Children turn towards the driver.)
They flew off one after another. (We run around the room after mom on our toes.)
Let's fly, fly,
And they sat down on the ground. (We squat down.)
The wind came again (We stand on our toes, stretch our arms up.)
And I picked up all the leaves,
I turned them around, twisted them, (We spin around ourselves in place.)
And he lowered it to the ground. (We squat down again.)
I really don’t like learning poems for finger games and gymnastics. Therefore, if I need to conduct a “poetry performance,” I simply write the text of the verse in large letters on an A4 sheet of paper and place it in a visible place - the sham sheet for fun gymnastics is ready!
Reinforcing the theme “harvest”.
Autumn is the time of harvest, we reinforce this theme in an educational game.
You will need real vegetables and fruits that you have in the house. Try to play with real vegetables and fruits, and not with their imitations - children really like it.
If necessary, we pronounce the names of vegetables (although probably at the age of 2-3.5 years this is already a passed stage).
Then we plant them in the garden (put them together on the floor):
Bury (cover with a towel).
We water (for fun, of course).
We shine with the sun - we reinforce in our consciousness that the sun is needed for living things to grow (we took a yellow pillow, which we shook over the garden). You can take anything yellow or shine it with a flashlight.
Finally the time has come to harvest - autumn! We assemble it like this: the baby puts his hand under the towel, feels for a vegetable or fruit there and, without pulling it out, must determine “by touch” what kind of vegetable he found.
This game develops sensory skills (I think logic works well here too).
