The Pinay Homeschooler: 14 months

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

For language, I would read Goodnight Moon to Vito at night. He is starting to identify the book so every morning he would pick this from our shelf and give it to me to read. The Baby First book, I only added this because we are having the “green” theme and the cover is green LOL.

I love giving Vito these activities and he loves them as well!

Craft sticks sticking on playdough. He loves the activity, but he loves squeezing the playdough more.

Vito can now snap the Duplo together! Yehey! Such a milestone! His finger muscles must be developing well! He loves snapping and removing the Duplo parts.

And puzzles and meant to be eaten. Yes, he still mouths most stuff! He can grip the holder properly (and remove the parts) but cannot put the pieces back yet.

See, he can even grip perfectly the small holder of the puzzle LOL

We love these spools and we use it in our transferring activities.

Our music exploration these days are merely listening to nursery rhymes and doing action songs at home. We use anything that we could find in the kitchen to create music and I guess this would be enough for now.

I can’t wait for winter to be over so we can explore the outdoors already. I am not willing to set up a sensory bin as of the moment as it takes a lot of time (and planning) to prepare the bin and would require a great amount of work.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Toddler activities for 2015! We’re starting the year with blue colour (although for 2015 the colour is green?)!. For our reading, we have two books this week that we kept on reading every day (when big brother is not home so as NOT to be distracted). Vito is starting to have longer attention span on books so we can read multiple books in one sitting these days. What’s funny though is that I end up singing the Brown Bear book instead of reading it.

We’ve got loads of this! We started with scribbling. While on vacation, I observed that Vito is becoming fond of scribbling. So I took our all different kinds of writing materials in our doodle drawer for him to explore. You can see below, we have the Crayola Pip Squeaks, Do-a-Dot (with supervision as this is NOT water washable), Crayola Egg Crayon and this writing magnet which we got as a freebie at Emirates (he loves this!).

Observing the little one on how to use some of these materials, he always started writing using his left. I am not sure yet if this is a sign of being left handed, but I still encourage him to use his right. See the upper-left picture? He also uses both hands! It’s amazing that at his age he seems to know how to properly grip the pen LOL. And of course, we still use the buttons… and he uses both hands alternatively.

And we started using the barrels. I planned this for stacking activity but he likes using it for open and close activity. His first attempt was the red barrel which is the smallest one.

Then he started to open the yellow which is a little bit bigger than the red.

When he got tired of opening and closing the barrels, I tried showing him how to stack the barrels and I caught him doing it as well :) Nice try!

For our artsy this week, we used his favourite toy as a medium for painting.

Creating car prints was fun! But he loved touching the paints using his finger much more.

Much of our our music adventures are not seen here, because we listen to music and doing lots of action songs as well. Occasionally, we use random materials to create music. Seen below is a cookie tin can lid (drum) and sharpies which we use as a drum set.

It is winter as of the moment, and the weather is negative outdoors so for the meantime, we are stuck at home and doing sensorial activities instead using natural materials LOL. He was eating this banana for breakfast, but when he had enough, he started playing with them. He squashed them! Oh those fingers are so strong! This is such a wonderful activity for those little fingers eh?