Tot School Wrap Up 12

May 15 to May 29, 2011

Mavi is 32-33 months old.

Our study of planets and the solar system. 

I borrowed a book from the library and showed it to Mavi.  The only thing he was interested of course was the sun and the moon.  But when I told him about our mother Earth, and showed him videos related to planets... he was hooked.

Here’s a few things we did for our solar system theme:

• coloring.  I’m happy that he enjoys coloring because he doesn’t like this activity before.

 

This is what he accomplished so far.  I did Uranus and Neptune :)

He asked for another “planet paper” and colored the second set.  I made him cut each of the planets.  To do this, I made a line to guide him where to cut exactly.

Then we paste the planets in our universe. Sorry, I ran out of black construction paper, so I just used our drawing paper.

LANGUAGE

We did object box for letters : ra and bi

  

We did our pink series: matching game

• re-enforcement exercise of our object box pink series 1

• currently mastering this picture card from our pink series 1.  It’s simple as matching the words to the pictures in the card.  I would first point the picture and ask Mavi to name it, and we would read the words on the card pronouncing each letters to form a word.  This helps him to easily associate words with objects.  I’m glad to say that he can already read these 6 words.

 

MATH

I’ve been ignoring math lately, as Montessori believes that math should come later.  But I can’t help but share this fun activity for Mavi which he loves dearly.  This is to connect numbers so he can form shapes.  He keeps asking me to write numbers and loves to connect them in order.  Now I must say he has mastered ordering his numbers from 1 to 10!

   

MONTESSORI

:)

Tot School Wrap-Up Week 11

May 9 to 15, 2011

Mavi is 32 months old

This has been a super delayed post for I have been VERY busy with a lot of things at home. So just allow me to share with you some of the highlights we did for this week.

BOOK WE READ THIS WEEK:

We enjoyed this book so much! He read this for weeks! This book is all about shapes and allows you to identify shapes on paintings on the museum.

ARTS and CRAFTS

He did a lot of drawing this week.  As of this time, he can draw a basic face, drawing a circle or oval at times and complete it with eyes and mouth.  Lately he wanted to work independently which means less photos.  He likes to use his crayons rather than the markers and colored pencils.

LANGUAGE

Doing our red series:  T and G

 

Building his letters T and G

MATH

 

Reused our old flashcards and use it for counting:  matching number symbols to the quantity of objects on the card.

We also matched shapes using our watermelon printables.

Sort big and small animals.

MONTESSORI

Working with shapes and glue them on a paper. First time I made him use a glue with a brush.  He enjoyed this very well... just checkout his concentration on the picture.

MONTESSORI

We worked with farm animal wooden puzzle this week.

 

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).