Tot School Wrap-Up Week 5

Mavi is 30 months old.

March 21 – 27, 2011.

 

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• Eric Carle’s The Very Busy Spider.  The story about a spider who was very busy making her web and didn’t have time to play, eat and mind her friends.
• Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me.  It’s a story about a girl who wants to play with the moon and asks her father to get it for her.  The book also presents the waxing and waning of the moon. Mavi learned a lot of vocabulary words from this book.
• Where the Wild Things Are.  This is about a boy named Max who was told to stay in his room.  Later he started to imagine all of sorts of things and adventure while inside his room, including being with the wild things!

CRAFTS

We painted the moon inspired by this book.  Read more about it here.

MATH 

 

Mavi asked for this wheel so he can match colors and numbers again.

 

I made a Montessori Number Rods for him.  It’s a very simple math material but Mavi got hooked.  I didn’t present the Number Rods the way Montessori schools do,we just counted the rods and match it with the right number symbol.  Hopefully next time, when he’s in the mood to do things my way... we can study the rods using the 3 period lessons.

LANGUAGE

 

Enjoying the letter puzzles.

PRACTICAL LIFE

      

He wants to eat on his own.  Something that he learn from school.

  

I gave him a metal scissor to put his cutting skills onto the next level.  He love this and can spend so much time cutting!  I tried to put lines so he can use it as his guide but he just cut anywhere hehe.

PRETEND PLAY

 

Play pretend! Using the all-time-favorite bedsheet cover/blanket, shopping cart and toy fruits and veggies and tin cans.

Mavi’s space.

LANGUAGE

 

We did letter “r” of the sound and read booklets.  Read about it here.

Continuously reading our books... and this week’s favorite is the Where the Wild Things Are.  Mavi loves this book... he pretends that he is Max.  Though I find the graphic of the monsters scary, Mavi was never scared at all.  He loves the pictures of the monsters, even imitating their faces and how they are in the pictures.  This is a really a nice read because it made my boy imagine a lot of things... even asking me to put a jungle in his room!

OTHERS

 

We form shapes and objects using popsicle sticks.

Mavi was into the IPad... but he doesn’t want to put it down once he start playing so I have to keep it away from him.