I have a bunch of life cycle figures which my Aunt brought from the US a few months ago. I did not really intend to introduce them yet to Vito as he is too young. But I observed that he’s into matching activities these days, so I managed to create matching cards for all of my life cycles. Wow, he definitely surprised me! He worked on all of these in one day and always picked these for his activity everyday!
For the link to the FREE printables they are located at the end of this post.
These are the life cycle toy figures that we have and you can get them from Amazon just follow the links below: Now I’m the type of not giving everything all at the same time, so I kept everything except for the turtle life cycle because we’re currently having a turtle unit. There is no way that I can explain the science of life cycles to him, so I only used terminologies like “eggs, baby, and turtle”. Then I would describe each figure/photo to him, like “there are many eggs”, “the egg is hatching and the head of the turtle is coming out, can you point to its head?”. So many things that you can do at this time even if you are not totally discussing life cycles!
We mostly worked in the morning, that’s when the big brother is in school. Because when Mavi’s around, there’s no way you can let him work on this without being distracted. When he’s brother is around, he just wanted to play with him and I don’t want to take that away from them.
So I hope you enjoy the cards as much as we do.
Benefits of Matching Activities:
- visual discrimination skills
- familiarity with one dimensional print and associating it to three dimensional objects or real ones
- one to one correspondence which is an early math skill
- concentration
Thank you! I am in need of anything related to insect and spiders as my son is super crazy about them. These cards are going to be a hit in my house.
ReplyDeleteThank you! We have insect units as well, for all ages! Just search for it in my blog "insects" and you will find a lot of it in there. Thanks!
Deletewhat am I doing wrong? every link I click takes me to amazon for the objects to buy to match. I CANNOT locate the link to download the FREE Life Cycle Matching Cards you have advertised on this page, or honestly any of the other supposedly free works you have photos of on your website.
ReplyDeleteHello there. The links are at the bottom/end of the post. Look for the text "Safari Toob Life Cycle Matching Cards" Thanks!
DeleteThank you for this I just try them for this year . Wish me luck
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