Letter Craft: C is for Crab!

Source: Totally Tots ~ uppercase letters

Still with out ocean theme, we made a crab out of a letter c!

Mavi applying glue on the letter c and on each parts of the crab.

 

I have no idea what his intentions were, but he wanted to write something on the craft here.

Once he assembled and finally completed the letter C crab, I added gogly eyes to make it look more realistic.

T’was timely because his Dad was watching Spongebob, so he immediately placed his artwork beside the TV when he saw Crabby.

Later on, he asked for a tape so he can stick on our wall :)

 

Letter Craft: W is for Whale

Source:  Totally Tots ~ lowercase letters

We’ve been ignoring our letter crafts for a lonnnnnggg time and I truly miss doing these stuff with Mavi.  So this week, since we’re doing an ocean theme, I select a few letter crafts for us to do in line with our theme.

W is for whale.

Mavi was very excited when he saw that I was prepared crafts materials.  He just couldn’t wait, so I we did this immediately as soon as I took out the papers from the shelves.

Here he is, applying white glue to the whale.

 

Somehow, he find it so difficult to squeeze the glue out from the container.  I should have made him use a liquid/watery glue for ease of use.

Here’s the end product.  A very simple craft for our ocean theme.

He was delighted and was more than eager to pose :)

Tot School Wrap Up Week 14

June 13 – 19, 2011

Mavi is 33 months old.

 

ARTS/CRAFTS

My son was into painting these days!  He paints all the nursery rhymes he could memorize.  I talked about this on previous post... I wanted to take a picture of each of his paintings but I still have no time to do it.  He’s so funny because he wanted me to take a photo of him with all his paintings on the background.

MATH

 

Since I bombarded him with math activities last week, this week I settled for mellow activity.  This one was ordering numbers from 1-20.  I write numbers in small pieces of papers and supposedly he’s going to order the number written on the chip of paper with a glue.  It seems that he rather more interested in using a glue brush than ordering the numbers.

LANGUAGE

We did our letters ‘c’ and ‘ns’ phonic box.  I’m still collecting objects for letters ‘n’ and ‘n’

While I work in the kitchen I let him play with his magnetic letters.  He loves to order them and his guide for it is the song “The Alphabet Song”

MONTESSORI

No practical life this week but he matched all his fruits and veggies with the classification cards that I made for him.  He love loves this game so much!

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.