Tot School Wrap-Up Week 3

Mavi is 30 months old.

BOOKS

Books we’ve been reading this week:

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Mr. Brown Can Moo
• The Very Busy Spider
• Usbourne’s Chicken Licken

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CRAFTS

For this week he was the one picked the letter craft.  After scanning all through the letters that we have, he finally picked uppercase letter I for our activity.

 

This is Mavi’s I for Iguana version.  If interested, you can view the basic procedures from here.  I wanted to make a separate post for our letter crafts but I’m a little bit preoccupied right now. Promise to do interesting post next time.

Then I showed to him the oil pastel and talked about how it’s different from crayons.  We later did the Oil Pastel Art that I posted here.

Since coloring books are so expensive on this side of the planet... I collected a view clipart from the net and printed them all out on a piece of A4 paper.  At first he just shaded everything.  Then I showed him how to properly "color or  shade” areas of a picture.  So tried another set of coloring pictures and finally he was able to color each photos.  As you can see, he can color areas of each clipart... he needs more practice though.  I want him to learn that each picture is different from the other so he can color each one separately and just within the area or lines.  But of course with his age, I can truly understand that he can’t color images within the lines yet.

MATH

We did the math color-number wheel here.

Then arrange butterflies and caterpillars according to their size.  He learned how to use the word “medium” with this activity.

And we did a lot of dot-math using our do-a-dot markers.

 

LANGUAGE

I introduced a new activity for this week.  Was a little bit inspired on the language section.  You can read about our activity here.

 

We re-visited our Itsy Bitsy Books and this time he wanted to read it all by himself.  He reads the book by sounding each letters first, then read the pictures.  He can’t read yet but I know that he can identify all the pictures on the Itsy Bitsy.  So everytime I took these books from the shelves, he would pretend reading it hehe.

 

PRACTICAL LIFE

In line with our Very Hungry Caterpillar book, I printed out this “ordering” printables from the internet.  The point here is to order the events of what happened from the book.  I was so surprise to see Mavi identify all the fruits and foods mentioned in the book without me telling him.

Say, I asked him about the 5 oranges... he would look at the cut-outs for a while then pick the 5 oranges pictures.  Can he actually count the 5 items? Or can he just identify the oranges?  I asked him about the plums too... and he picked the correct cut-out again! 

Some sensorial activities... making our very own caterpillar and butterfly.

Then he helped his grandmother arrange the spoons and fork in the kitchen cabinet.  We didn’t ask him to do it but he did.

And while his Dad was sick, the little guy behaved the whole time... for he was very very busy painting his car!

SCIENCE

Yehey! We did science this week.  I took out our “Butterfly Life Cycle” and the “Life Cycle of an Apple” nomenclature cards and we matched the pictures.  Since I guess he’s too young for some detailed stuff, what I do here is I would tell him a story based on the pictures of the chronological event of a certain species..which is the butterfly and the apple.

After having discussions with him, asking him the colors in the picture, how big it is or how small... we would match the pictures cards to the control cards.  I am surprise that he’s learning a lot from this activity.  His word bank just keeps growing and growing. Aylavet!