While on break..

I keep him busy with a lot of our old activities, just reusing a bunch of our tot school materials.  Since DH and I are so busy these days, I haven’t got the time to plan my 2011 Tot School either.

So here’s what Mavi has been doing so far..

Painting.  I taught him how to paint an egg carton box using a paint brush.  I started by showing him how to do it, then I also told him that he can mix colors when he paints.  He insisted on doing it on his own but he ended up painting on the drawing paper, with up and down strokes.  He doesn’t want to paint the box even if I told him it’s a volcano hehe.  Maybe painting on a flat surface was easier for him so he can do his up and down strokes.

  

He also wanted to play with our “See and Spell”.  He still obsessed with his Alphabet Letters and is beginning to show interest on reading words.  It all started with his “First Word” book when we were practicing reading the word using the letter sounds and I would gesture that we read the word from left to right.  He loved it so much that even without my assistance he still wants to read the book.  The at times, we would practice reading using the “sight words” technique.  This one is really effective!  The words that he can read as of the moment are “cup”, “cat”, “dog” and “eat”.

Going back to the “See and Spell”, here he is matching the letters and would later on read the word by making the sounds of each letters.

 

Oh and I have to mention that he is really getting good with his scissor skills!! We haven’t tried using the metal scissors yet, but it will be included in the 2011 curriculum.  He would ask for his scissor whenever we play PlayDoh.

And speaking of PlayDoh,this toy does keep him busy for quite sometime.  He can spend 30 minutes to 1 hour.  Then I discovered that we can play color match with the PlayDoh’s lids and the cans.  Thanks to Mavi because when he finished playing with his doughs, he covered the cans with their respective lids! Amazing!

 

Well, there goes my update.  I have gazillions of idea for our next year’s tot school, but until I organized them and write them down... it will all be just “plans”.  As I always say, my tot school is child-led.  I just plan ahead so I can prepare my materials beforehand.

Ciao for now!