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.

Homeschool Break

We’re currently on break because I have loads of work to do and I also have to prepare new materials and plans for our future sessions.

Tot School Wrap Up Week 8

April 11 to April 17, 2011

Mavi 31 months old

Books were read this week.  

 

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This week has been fruitful because we did a number of new activities to brought back Mavi’s interest in homeschool.  As you all know the past few weeks he was more interested in free play and doing things “his way” and doesn’t want to be instructed.  I also mentioned that since I brought him new toys, such as the wooden blocks and animal miniatures... all he would do is just play with them.

In effect Mavi seem to have lost his interest in art ... so I still try to incorporate art to our activities.  For this week I made him paint letter cardboards which I got from a craft store.  He ended up painting his hands.

Enjoyed playing pretend using do-a-dot markers.  I drew the background, telling him that it’s an ocean with a big big sun.  He was the one who added the boat, log and the shark.

 

He also started his 100 boards.  He love doing this.  He can only finish up to number 20 (2 rows). Funny thing is that my number chips would pop out because of inconsistence in sizes, too thin and not sturdy.  So the chips keep moving and popping out here and there once he placed them on the control board.  This irritated him as he wanted to perfectly align every chip.  So he was more busy correcting the line-up of the chips than placing the number chips to their respective controls. I hope that I can  get an actual 100 boards in the future.

Introduced skip counting using golden beads (tens).  We counted one strand of 10 beads and I told him that it is call “one tens”, then to make 20, I told him that we should add two tens.. and so on and so forth.  He participated but didn’t show much interest.

He still continued playing his farm animals.

 

Incorporating language lesson with animals and objects:  Moveable Letters and CVC Pink Series.  Will tell you more about my pink series soon.

I also showed him our object box for ramf.  Oh this was his favorite toy for days!! At first he participated with sorting objects according to their beginning letter sounds. At times I also use this to create stories.  But later on he just wanted to play with them in a free play manner.  I will try to prepare a separate post for this.

Play pretend includes cooking and doing groceries.

 

Practical skills includes foam stickers: peeling off the skin and sticking it anywhere and body part trace.  He loves to trace his hands, feet and body... then he would also trace my hands once his hands were covered with markers :-)