Tot School Wrap Up Week 10

May 1 to 8, 2011

Mavi is  32 months old.

Here’s what we did during this week.

ARTS

Lots of painting.. including body painting!

He started to paint his animals.

 

Then considered painting his hands.

 

Until he discovered how cool it would be to paint his arms too!

 

He also got interested with his do-a-dot markers again, and started to scribble using my Gtech Pilot pens.

 

MATH

Found his Hundred Boards puzzle in the drawer and remove it so he can play with it again.  Still all he can do is from numbers 1 to 20 and he loses interest in finishing the rest of the puzzle.

 

Still loving counting using his do-a-dot markers.

Our first attempt to play graphing game using ice cream flavors.  But he couldn’t grasp the idea.  He just loves tossing the dice and counting the number of dots.

He loves my ice cream cut-outs thought.  He kept on stacking them on one ice cream cone.  But I why he couldn’t understand why the pink is strawberry ice cream, the brown is for chocolate and white is for vanilla.... that’s because have never eaten a “real” ice cream with those flavors.  All he tried was those on popsicle sticks.

He wants his car to eat the ice cream.

 

LANGUAGE

We did a lot of things for language this week!  I think we reviewed the rest of the red series this week.

The picture below is Mavi reading his letter F Itsy Bitsy book  and builing the letter M using foam sheets. 

He traced his letters M, F, B and I. 

Traced small letters of the red series using this, and read our sound books.

Traced our sandpaper letters as well and form the letters using our playdough.

     

PRACTICAL LIFE

Dropper.  He did his best to do this but still a lot of miss! He still couldn’t get the water from the cup using his dropper.  Now I’m lost and doesn’t know how to teach him how to use it.

 

SCIENCE

We did botany this week, studied the parts of the leaf.

Fun with Shapes!

Playing with wooden blocks, using them as tools for stamping activity.  We use poster paints.

   

Reading this books about shapes.  This is his current obsession.  From the moment we read this, he started to identify shapes he sees around the house, starting from phone, to kitchen utensils etc.

Matching shapes using the watermelon card which I printed on a cardstock.  Sorry I forgot where I downloaded this printables.  I have it since last year and totally forgot all about it until today.

I also made Mavi glue colored shapes on a paper using glue (brush).

Wooden Blocks Stamping

Yesterday I decided to pick up Mavi from school earlier than usual so I can get to spend more time with him and we could do painting together. 

I have planned this activity for a quite a while but I didn’t get the chance do this activity with him.

So this activity was all about stamping (supposedly) using his wooden blocks and paints. This activity was a hit! First I showed him how to do the “stamping” by dipping the wooden block to the paint and “stamp” it on the drawing paper.  I use the words “stamp” and press so he can associate pressing the blocks with stamping. 

 

 

Then he started to ask for more paints in colors brown and red.  He tried to cover the blocks with paints and started to form castles, buildings and houses.

 

He enjoyed this activity so much that it kept him preoccupied for hours!

So much with learning shapes :-)

Tot School Wrap Up Week 9

April 17 to 30, 2011

Mavi is 32 months old.

This week has been a fruitful homeschool week for Mavi and I.  He’s been out of school most of this week because of diarrhea caused by iron supplements.  So in effect, we were able to spend more time together and did a lot of activities at home to keep him busy and entertained. 

We currently rereading all his books.  His current obsession are Dinosaur books, Goodnight Moon and Alphabet Book.

ARTs

 

We made leaf prints here.

And more of body painting.  I should be getting him finger paints this week because I don’t think Crayola’s poster paint is suitable for finger painting or body painting.  He loves to paint his hands and arms these days. 

And we made use of our water color once again by doing watercolor paint using our trees miniatures.

MATH

No math activity this week.  I focused more on language and arts.

LANGUAGE

Pink Series

We started our CVC pink series this week.  I think this activity deserves a separate post, so I will be detailing this on my next post.  Anyway, the pink series set 1 goes well, but he was more interested on playing with the objects rather than concentrating on learning how to associate words with objects. 

 

Learning the Alphabets

We started our CVC pink series this week.  I think this activity deserves a separate post, so I will be detailing this on my next post.  Anyway, the pink series set 1 goes well, but he was more interested on playing with the objects rather than concentrating on learning how to associate words with objects. 

On the pictures below, we are doing the letters b and i.  Everytime I would take out our letter packs, he knows the activities that comes with it already.  So as you can see, he’s forming both letters using foam sheets, then tracing the letters using our sandpaper letters, reading our sound and read booklets and more.  You can read about the different activities that comes with our letter pack here.

We also did the egg CVC cards.  I have to admit that little by little he’s able to read the word just by looking at it. 

When we’re done, I told him to fix his cards, and this is how he did it:  sort them according to colors and put them back on the plastic zipper bag.

    

We revisit his alphabet bingo game.

Practical Life

We did sweeping this week! Something that I’ve been wanting to do since we moved here but never got the chance because of my busy schedule.  Here I used a corn instead of rice.  He didn’t brushed the corns off to the sides instead of brushing them to the center of the square.

 

Study of Plants

Mavi is 31 months old.

The Lenten Season gave Mavi and I a little more time to do some interesting things together.  Since on weekdays he’s in school and most of our weekends are spent on the mall doing groceries and playing at the playground, we never get the chance to do quality homeschool together.  So I am so happy to share what we did during the long weekend vacation.

We read books about plants.  Luckily, I discovered two wonderful books at the library that contains precisely the things that I wanted to teach/show Mavi about plants.

 

For art related activities, we make tree and leaf prints using water color and paints.

He was a little bit hesitant to apply paints on the leaf but as I was showing him what to do, he eventually participated and was happy of the end result. 

Our leaf prints art.

Of course, we identified the different parts of the plants using the vegetables on the fridge.  I didn’t have any flower and fruits to present to him.

We studied the parts of a leaf as well.   

And he ended up cutting the leaves hehehe, incorporating fine motor skills to our science lesson.