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.