Tot School Wrap-Up Week 6

Mavi is 31 months old

March 28 to April 3, 2011

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I’m having a hard time catching up with all the post that I needed to share.  Work has taken most of my time and blogging seems to be my last priority.  So please do pardon me if I make this post as quick as possible and just bombard you with pictures.

This week theme is all about chicken and birds. 

CRAFTS 

 

Dinosaur craft is here.

Lowercase letter “r” craft.  We don’t do this activity anymore wince Mavi seems so preoccupied with this animals.

Bird/chick craft.  This is the first time Mavi encountered a feather.  He was scared of it at first... but got used to it later.  I told him that the feather is light and soft and tickles him.  Good means of sensorial activity.

MATH

 

Counting using popsicle sticks and turtle number cards.  I got the cards from here.

Arranging nests and zebra according to size.

 

LANGUAGE

 

Self correcting alphabet puzzle.

 

Sound and read cards.  Read about it here.

PLAY

Play pretend.  Read it here.

 

    

PRACTICAL LIFE

Using tweezer to transfer pompoms.  First time he encountered this... and he finds it hard to control.  I still have to look for a plastic tweezer because metal ones are very danger.

SCIENCE

Life Cycle of a Chicken.

 

Toddler Beginnings Week 18

My notes on Mavi's tot school moments this week

Date: August 30 – September 3, 2010

Mavi is 24 months old.

Since I’ve been busy for the past days, there wasn’t much preparation made for our tot school this week.  I just made use the available materials we had, and did the same activities we had before.

To add to this, Mavi was quite moody and doesn’t want to cooperate this week.  He seemed grouchy.  So what I did was just allow him to do the things he wanted to do, where he will lead us.

So here are some of our accomplishments for this week’s tot school.

Letter Craft: R is for Rainbow

From: No Time for Flashcards

I love how this activity goes.  Mavi loves to see me do all the cutting of colored strips of paper, and he can’t wait what we’re gonna do with it.

For this activity, we’re to make a RAINBOW using the letter R.

1.  Prepare materials needed.  I recommend that you plan ahead so you can properly document your materials.  I used the rainbow colors, scissor, a cardstock, glue and a red marker.

2.  Cut the rainbow colored papers into strips and write a huge letter R on the cardstock.

3.  While doing some chores, I keep my son glued on the coloring of the letter R.  As you noticed every crafts that we do involves drawing and writing.  So you are creating something and at the same time, your little gals and guys can practice their fine motor skills.

 

4.  When he told me “I’m done”, I made him apply glue on the letter R.  He’s not yet good in gluing because he is still figuring out how much force he has to make to squeeze the glue out of the tube.  So what I do is I would guide his hand when he squeezes the glue. Once we covered the letter with glue, I started putting 2-3 strips of colored paper. 

 

5.  Then I let him do the rest.  He kept on covering the letter with the strips, until it came to a point that he piled all the remaining strips on the letter.

6.  Once the glue dried up, I cut the letter R and showed it to him.  He shouted “RAINBOW!” when he saw what we did.