Shapes and Colors

SCharlie has been working and playing insanely hard with his Colors and Shaping game which he calls his "Shaping" game. The idea of the game it to roll two dice and find the piece in the box that matches and place it on a place card. So you roll red rectangle and place it on your card. Everyone who watches Charlie has had to play this game. I play this game about 14 times a day so that my enthusiasm is lacking now. But, he is really good. He knows exactly what he needs to get to win and exactly what you need to get to win, which is good, because I am often playing while eating, cleaning, or other multi-tasking activity. This was my game as a child, however, I do not think I had nearly this obsession as it was in pristine condition still!!

Here is a picture of his playing...

Since he is obsessed with this game now, I decided to put the teacher in me to some use. So I created using the pieces from this game to learn patterns. He is now putting patterns together in a sequential format (first just matching, then picking his own colors, next creating his own, etc..). My form of preschool. 

Here is a picture of him patterning.