Re-visiting Painting

It’s been months since we haven’t had any painting activities.  Unlike before wherein Mavi would always ask for watercolors, these days he’s just into letters and his Safari Toobs toys.

So to keep him interested on painting, arts and colors I decided that once a week I should dedicate time to sit with him and paint.

As seen below, Mavi was trying to examine the Crayon Washable Paints.  He asked me to fill the palette.  I also made sure that there’s enough paint brush for him to use. And he seems to prefer the bigger brush.

One of the things that I taught him on this session is how to do the strokes properly.  I’m not a painter nor an artist, so I just go with the “up and down” stroke and the “circle” stroke.  II hope we could do some impressionism in the future :)

Obviously, my masterpiece looks like the work of a 1st grader hehehe.  But I enjoyed playing out the colors and demonstrating to the little one that we can create so many things with just the use of a brush a paint and a lot of imagination as well.

After 3 papers of painting, he got bored and decided to make a train out of his paint bottles.

Tot School Wrap-Up 15

June 20 – June 30, 2011

Mavi is 33 months old.

We will be on vacation in the next few days that I am giving the little guy some works to do.  This week we did an ocean theme curriculum.  It took me a while to gather up all the materials needed. 

ARTS AND CRAFTS

We did letters W for Whale and C for Crab

MATH

I call out a number and Mavi has to put a sticker on it. 

Sorting and ordering the sizes of the fish.

LANGUAGE

We did letters: s,n, p and o.

Pink Series set 1 and set 2.

 

 

SCIENCE

Parts of the fish and watching videos about fishes.

MONTESSORI

Pre-writing: tracing lines

 

More Montessori activities can be found here in our ocean themed week.

 

OCEAN THEME

Here are some of the things we did during our ocean theme week. 

Sea animals letter crafts.  My son truly enjoyed this activity.  Details of letters W for whale can be found here and for C for crabs here.

Matching sea life creatures with the classification cards I made.  The objects were bought in a random store here and the other set is from Safari Coral Reef Toobs.

Sensory play.  I dumped some of the animals on a basin and let my son play with it. He loves to play in the water with his animals for hours!

 

For science I made nomenclature card for the parts of the fish, and made a puzzle of a fish out of foam sheets.

 

Arranging sizes of the Fishes which I printed out a long long time ago, forgot the link though :(

 

We watched a lot of videos about fishes. 

 

Play with magnetic letters and spelled the F-I-S-H word.

Letter Craft: C is for Crab!

Source: Totally Tots ~ uppercase letters

Still with out ocean theme, we made a crab out of a letter c!

Mavi applying glue on the letter c and on each parts of the crab.

 

I have no idea what his intentions were, but he wanted to write something on the craft here.

Once he assembled and finally completed the letter C crab, I added gogly eyes to make it look more realistic.

T’was timely because his Dad was watching Spongebob, so he immediately placed his artwork beside the TV when he saw Crabby.

Later on, he asked for a tape so he can stick on our wall :)

 

Letter Craft: W is for Whale

Source:  Totally Tots ~ lowercase letters

We’ve been ignoring our letter crafts for a lonnnnnggg time and I truly miss doing these stuff with Mavi.  So this week, since we’re doing an ocean theme, I select a few letter crafts for us to do in line with our theme.

W is for whale.

Mavi was very excited when he saw that I was prepared crafts materials.  He just couldn’t wait, so I we did this immediately as soon as I took out the papers from the shelves.

Here he is, applying white glue to the whale.

 

Somehow, he find it so difficult to squeeze the glue out from the container.  I should have made him use a liquid/watery glue for ease of use.

Here’s the end product.  A very simple craft for our ocean theme.

He was delighted and was more than eager to pose :)

Tot School Wrap Up Week 14

June 13 – 19, 2011

Mavi is 33 months old.

 

ARTS/CRAFTS

My son was into painting these days!  He paints all the nursery rhymes he could memorize.  I talked about this on previous post... I wanted to take a picture of each of his paintings but I still have no time to do it.  He’s so funny because he wanted me to take a photo of him with all his paintings on the background.

MATH

 

Since I bombarded him with math activities last week, this week I settled for mellow activity.  This one was ordering numbers from 1-20.  I write numbers in small pieces of papers and supposedly he’s going to order the number written on the chip of paper with a glue.  It seems that he rather more interested in using a glue brush than ordering the numbers.

LANGUAGE

We did our letters ‘c’ and ‘ns’ phonic box.  I’m still collecting objects for letters ‘n’ and ‘n’

While I work in the kitchen I let him play with his magnetic letters.  He loves to order them and his guide for it is the song “The Alphabet Song”

MONTESSORI

No practical life this week but he matched all his fruits and veggies with the classification cards that I made for him.  He love loves this game so much!

Tot School Wrap Up Week 13

June 6 to 12, 2011

Mavi is 33 months old.

ARTS

He did A LOT of water paint this week and it definitely needs a separate post!

MATH

We did 1:1 correspondence in three different ways:  using beads, stickers and using teddy counters.

[THE STICKER] This was an old activity, I was lazy to invent new ones for him so I just reused most of our existing activities.  Surprisingly, he still remembers how this thing works.  What I did here was simply put a number on a piece of colored paper, and Mavi has to put the number of stickers based on the written number symbol.

[THE BEADS]  I made these counting beads a long long time ago but Mavi wasn’t ready to use it then.   Here, instead of doing the bead-stairs activity of Montessori, I just presented to him the numbers of beads on a string.  As you can see, I don’t have a number 1.  Sadly, I can’t seem to find red beads here of the same size.  And I still lack brown and dark blue beads. I am hoping to find these beads color back at our homeland.

Beads wasn’t his type though.  Maybe when he’s a little bit older.

[TEDDY COUNTERS]  Here’s our version of Montessori’s numbers and counters.  Instead of putting it all in one line... Mavi wants to do this activity one number at a time.  So what I did here was put a number card on the felt, ask him what number it is... and he would put the number of bears that corresponds to the number card. So far he has done everything right.  The problem here was he wants to put the same color of bears and I ran out of blue bears for number 10.

We also revisited our clothespin math activities.

I made use of my old math printable cards both got it from here.  Surprisingly, he knows how to order numbers 11-20!

LANGUAGE

We worked on our letters ‘c’ and ‘u’.  As seen on the pictures, Mavi tracing the sandpaper letters and building the letters using my foam sheets.

He also loves to trace letters.  As seen here, Mavi tracing the uppercase letters which is a DIY cards.  The lowercase letters which I made him use for tracing, I got it from Kumon.

Ordering the alphabets.  He can do this without a guide already but he wanted to use this one though.

MONTESSORI

Tracing

Writing letters, he did letters A-D.  I got this idea from Adventures of Bear.