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.

Singapore Zoo

It’s been our 3rd zoo for the past 4 months!

Here’s a few pictures just to share what we did at Singapore Zoo. 

It was really hot, so we only spend around 2 hours there. I’m just glad that even in a short period of time my Mom and Mavi bonded.

Here’s Mavi fascinated with the rabbits.

 

The giraffe looks so divine!

And here’s Mavi in awe of the largest alligator he has ever seen!

Whew what a day!! We didn’t bother seeing the lions and tigers even if it’s Mavi’s favorite animal since we’ve seen them a lot of times already (Belgrade and Subic). 

Toddler Beginnings Week 20

My notes on Mavi's tot school moments this week

Date: September 13 – September 17, 2010

Mavi is 24 months.

During the weekend I was able to come up with new additional activities for Mavi.  Despite the fact that we were so busy during the weekend because we attended a birthday party, I still managed to prepare materials for this week’s tot school.

 

Toddler Beginnings Week 19

My notes on Mavi's tot school moments this week

Date: September 6 – September 10, 2010

We did a of lot of new activities this week, the only problem was that most of the time Mavi wasn’t into it.  Nowadays, he seem to be insisting on doing things his own way.  Well, that’s fine with me, tot school is all about following your child’s interest and unschooling!

Song for the week:

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Bible Story:  Samuel from 100 Bible Stories

 

Paper Craft: The SUN

From:  No Time for Flashcards

This was one activity Mavi enjoyed.  He’s showing interest in our painting activities and he spends a lot of time doing it. He’s able to explore what he can do with the paint, try to feel it on his hand, pretend to create something out of it and he can practice his grip on the paintbrush.

For this exercise, I made him use a sponge to paint.  It’s just so funny because even if I kept on telling him that it is a sponge, he would refer to it a a flower.

 

This is how we made our SUN paper craft activity.

1.  Materials were yellow paint, yellow construction paper, scissor, paste, colored pens and a paper plate.

2.  I traced Mavi’s hand on the construction paper.  He enjoyed this activity.  After I traced his hand, he said “fingers!” while pointing to his hands and he counted his fingers on the paper. 

 

3.  Made him paint the paper plate.  It took him the whole afternoon to paint.  While he paints, I cut the paper hands. Allow the paint to dry.

  

4.  The next day, we glued the hands on the paper and put it in our art-wall.  He was so happy with the SUN craft!  We danced and sing afterwhich (good exercise and development of gross motor skills).

  

Shape floor mats

 

To make our Circle Time more interesting, I made these floor mats in different shapes.  I put it on the floor and we would play a game as I put on the nursery rhymes in the background.

First we would dance, then I would call a shape and he would either hop, skip, jump or run in place on the shape.  A great shape recognition activity, a great exercise and an exciting way to practice gross motor skills.