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Learn to write capital letters – connect the dots

Gudlenieks — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:18:19 +0000

Teaching materials learning materials, printable tasks for children. Intended for preschool-age children. This task exercises the hands and teaches writing in printed capital letters.

How to obtain these learning materials for home study?
Who are these digital resources intended for?
Similar tasks
Download letter worksheets for preschool-age children

How to obtain these learning materials for home study?

Fill out the form to receive worksheets for children.
Receive a link to printable learning materials in your email.
Download these teaching resources to your computer.
Print the digital resource on an available printer.
Complete digital exercises together with the child.

Who are these digital resources intended for?

These printable worksheets are intended for preschool-age children, kindergarten students – four-year-olds, and five-year-olds. An excellent tool for kindergarten teachers, educators, and the material can also be useful in Montessori education.

Similar tasks

Learn to write numbers – connect the dots

Download letter worksheets for preschool-age children

In printable worksheets for children, capital letters of the Latin alphabet are provided. When completing tasks, children need to connect the dots with a line, thus writing the letter.
In one row, there is one letter, and in each subsequent column, there are fewer dots.
This way the child needs to observe how the letter is written.

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Dragon – Visual illusion. Printable Optical Illusion for Kids and Adults

Gudlenieks — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 20:19:55 +0000

Both kids will and adults will like it. This printable visual illusion features a dragon that appears to come to life when you close one eye. it will look like the dragon is watching you, turning his head and following your movement. This effect can also be observed when filming with a camera.

You will need
Video with end result
Download printable visual illusion – dragon

You will need

Printer for printing out the worksheet
Pencils for colouring (optional, but it can be an extra task for children)
Scissors to cut out dragon
Glue pencil (not mandatory, but more convenient, the alternative is to fold and hook the special “hooks”)

Video with end result

The video is with T-Rex, not dragons, but the effect is exactly the same, only in real life you have to close one eye for the illusion to work.

Download printable visual illusion – dragon

Download the visual illusion – dragons
Print it out
Color the dragon
Cut it out, fold it and glue it
Close one eye
Turn the dragon and see how it comes to life and watches the watcher

Visual illustration – dragon – if the link is not working anymore, fill the form to get the file.

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Evening story

Gudlenieks — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 09:45:21 +0000

Sometimes before the bed we are reading fairy tales. Sometimes comics, other times listening to the audio fairy tales. But lately we are telling our own stories, fairy tales.

Its interesting to listen to the children imagination in work, stories that sometimes provide of some useful insights. For example, on of the kids was telling story about Christmas and what presents each was getting, so that was helpfull information about what kind of toys, games are actual.

When kids are telling, retelling stories they are learning how to express their imagination into words. At first was pretty hard for them tell some story. And at start i was giving the example.
Was telling my story and was involving them into it on the way, tricking them to shape the story with some details.

For example, if story would have three characters, then i would ask them to name them or tell what animals there were. “The Lion wore a shirt. I cant think of what kid of shirt it was warning…. Can you help me to think about what color the shirt was?”

Sometimes we are passing the story to next one to continue, then to next one and so one. Btw, this is also good activity to do in children parties, or on Halloween evening.

We recommend this to tryout. This trains children imagination and story telling skills.

When we get lazy we are retelling that days events. Trying to tell in smallest details possible so that we would train different words, adjectives. Even if it was routine day one can find some interesting details to tell.

Same as with stories, the day events can be passed around, so everybody tells some part of the day, what was happening. Not always whole day have been spent with kids, rather the other way round. For example:” Took you to the kindergarten, hugged and said goodbye. Then jumped in our silver car, that has black wheels. I dont know what happened in kinder-garden. Please, tell me what was happening till we met again in evening?”

One more way how to involve kids in stories is “wrong stories”. Usually i am retelling days events, and mixing up some parts with “fake news”.
For example:” In the morning we got up and went to bathroom to wash our teeth, we took toothbrush and put small amount of chocolate and started to clean up our shoes.”
Children:”No, no….. that was not what happened.” Then i ask:” So how it was really?” – then they retell same thing but corrected. Best thing is if if kids are retelling full sentence, not just wrong parts. This is really fun thing to do.
If kid is correcting only one thing “we brushed teethes, not the shoes”.
Then parent can restart the same sentence but mix up other parts:”So, in morning we woke up, went to living-room, took the toothbrush put small amount of chocolate on toothbrush and started to clean our teethes”… and so on till the sentence is fully corrected by children.

So these are some examples how we “force” our kids to talk, tell stories. Do you have some other interesting ways how to “trick” kids in retelling stories?

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Story, fairy tale animation, puppetry

Gudlenieks — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:41:48 +0000

We have found your next favorite hobby – creating story-based animations with puppets, and drawings. Although most animations are done on computers nowadays, there are still many options available for analog animation enthusiasts. One great example is puppetry.

In this article, we will be focusing on analog animation using overhead projectors. These old-school devices allow you to put transparent sheets on them and project the images onto a screen. Not really great investment right? While they may not be the latest technology, you can find a used one at a low price or for free.

The idea behind this type of animation is pretty simple. You can draw characters from your favorite stories onto transparent sheets and then use the overhead projector to animate them. This can be a fun and entertaining activity to do with family and friends, especially children.

You can even use the projector to play guessing games with your guests. Simply project transparent or non-transparent objects onto the screen and have your guests guess what the object is. Children are sure to love this activity, and it can be a great way to spend a few evenings with friends and family. While computer animation may be the norm today, there is still something special about analog animation that should not be overlooked.

What’s needed

Used overhead projector – You can check online marketplaces such as eBay or Facebook Marketplace to find a used overhead projector.
Transparent sheets – For your canvas, you can use document pockets or any transparent plastic. You can even use cut plastic bottles.
Permanent markers – It is recommended that you first draw on white paper to test your drawings before redrawing them on a transparent sheet.
Choose a fairy tale or story to “animate” – When choosing a fairy tale or story to “animate,” it is advisable to start with simpler stories with fewer characters and decorations. These are easier to remember and retell, especially for children.
If you have a printer and do not want to draw everything by hand, there are sheets of transparent “paper” that can be used in printers. However, not all plastic sheets are suitable for use in printers. Some may only work with inkjet printers. If the paper is thin enough, it may be possible to project the light through it using an overhead projector.
To draw your characters and scenery, use permanent markers to create your illustrations on transparent sheets.
Wait for dark or close the curtains and the show can start.

Why is it an awesome idea?

It’s interesting for both young and old, kids and parents.
It’s a great way to get kids off their gadgets.
Kids can learn how to illustrate and transfer their imagination onto paper.
Children can learn how to retell stories.
Additionally, they can learn how to present their stories in front of others.

While we have not done this for some time, we believe it can be a fun and engaging activity for everyone involved. And also dark period of the year is here so we will restart to do this more often, and we recommend you do the same thing too.

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Digital worksheets for kids – Dzene.com

Gudlenieks — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:17:07 +0000

Colorful, made with care and quality worksheets for kids. The content is made mostly for Latvian children, but there are exercises that are Language neutral.

On the website dzene.com one can buy digital worksheets, that will stimulate your children’s thinking with various interesting colorful tasks.
Worksheets are suitable for different age groups. There are printable worksheets for kids in the age range from 2 to 8 years old, but some exercises could be interesting also for older kids or even parents themselves.

Dzene.com also publishes video lectures, informative, educating posters, speech therapy materials, and materials for the development of fine finger motor skills.

For sure everybody has some printer, somewhere accessible – at home, office or some friend has it. If you don’t have access to the printer you can find one in some copy center to print out the worksheets.

One thing that should be taken into account – not all worksheets are suitable for printing on a black and white (grayscale) printer. But another way, as we already mentioned, awesome and highly necessary resource for parents.

Visit dzene.com
Choose the worksheets suitable for your kids.
Buy them
Get the files / download files
Print out all worksheets or just particular parts of the worksheets

Visit dzene.com

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TheDadLab – Youtube channel with interesting, non-standard how to entertain, educate kids

Gudlenieks — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:26:01 +0000

We are recommending to follow/subscribe to this channel and from time to time watch videos from it.
Channel is mostly with “do it yourself” experiments to create different toys/experiments from things that can be found at home, or things that are relatively cheap/easy to get a hold of.
Please take a look yourself. Highly recommended.

One can find The Dad Lab here: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.

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