Tot School Wrap-Up Week 1

Mavi is 29 months old.

I have to admit that I’m not prepared for our activities this week.  As you all know, we just came from our month long vacation and I’m still a little bit tired.  But since my son will be looking for some things to do this week, I gave him the usual activities that we did last year.

 

CRAFTS

    

We made the uppercase and lowercase crafts as he kept asking for “more letters”.

Then we read this book entitled “Fruit” which was given to me by a friend back in Belgrade.  It became a favorite of Mavi instantly.  He loves how we can flap the pages revealing the stages of apple tree and the different parts of an apple.

MATH

For our Math:

• Counting apples using small pompoms balls
• Sorting colors: popsicle sticks
• Ordering numbers
• one-to-one correspondence

I also tried to teach him how to make number symbols using his fingers.

LANGUAGE

We read lots of books this week, ranging from apple stories to Dinosaurs to Dr. Seuss.

Then he found his Melissa and Doug’s wooden letters and he started to match the uppercase letters with its lowercase letters all by himself! I am so proud for he has mastered his alphabets already, being able to identify the big and small letters. 

 

We did a few do-a-dot activities with letter A.  He absolutely love dotting in the circles of the letter A and in the alligator/apple picture. Although Mavi can easily unscrew the marker’s caps, he still can’t work out how to screw it back again.

By the way, I got these letters printables from Homeschool Creations and Confessions of a Homeschooler.

And early this year, I found this at Popular Bookstore and I just have to get it right away because I wanted to jumpstart Mavi with his writing skills.  So for the past few days we’ve been practicing writing by working on this lowercase letters.   He enjoys doing this activity!

 

MONTESSORI ACTIVITIES

• Paint
• Scooping using his ABC Lacing Sweets which I got from Learning Store SG

• Putting stickers on the outline of shapes.  I just draw the shapes by myself and handed Mavi a bunch of label star stickers for him to use.  At first he was eager working with sticking and making sure that he properly sticks the star on the outline.  Later on, I guess he got tired and doesn’t want to finish each shape so he kept moving on to the next.  I later on showed him the second set of shapes but doesn’t want to work on them either.  This activity was a hit, though it’s not that something can they can work for a long time.

• Putting back the markers into their boxes.  This comes as a surprise as I just instructed him to return the markers back in the cabinet.  He insisted that he should put it back on its box.

 

• The idea of this activity was supposedly to balance the buttons on the popsicle sticks.  But he wasn’t interested.  So it ended up as a button shape activity wherein I formed shapes using the buttons.  He totally loved it!! He’s so happy everytime I formed a shape!   He kept asking that we do more.. but I ran out of buttons.  The next day he asked that we should do it again.

 

SCIENCE

We did our very first science lesson here.