Best Buys

Today was shopping day,Alhamdulillah.I sometimes think I buy too much for schooling everytime I touch something it must be educational. The boys bought walkie talkies which I thought would be a good hook for learning sounds for $15.90 from Children's World at IMM level 2, the shop opposite Baystreet 21.They also bought a box of around 50 country flag erasers for less than $5.00 which they of course use to play 'erasers' but I'm gonna use it for geography lessons. Sofiyya bought wooden cutting materials shaped like food from Learn-thru-Play. We had them before, but they died a natural death (parts got lost).

However, my best buy has to be my 3D globe puzzle from Children's World for $9.90.



The shop has a better one for I think around $60 and Puzzle World of course has the works if you've got the bucks.The boys were interested at first but the small size of the puzzle means they need good minor motor skills so they did parts after I divided them into continents and I put the whole thing together. A spherical base would also have provided more support.

They put numbers at the back; so younger children can start from there but I realise that some of them were wrongly numbered and it can get confusing as they go by layers. There were some spelling mistakes but that can be used as a lesson and for $9.90 this is a very engaging Geography lesson.

Now I need to find one missing piece...