Magnetic Shapes

We haven’t had the magnetic shapes out for a while, and while there were 3 children using them today it was interesting to see the different ages of child and what they used the shapes for. The variations went from a beach, to sorting out different shapes of the same colour, to seeing how many different shapes there were, to symmetrical patterns. Since we only had 2 magnetic boards and 3 children we tried to make use of the radiator (whilst off of course), which worked ok for some shapes but not for some of the heavier shapes.