If you are looking for child-friendly books in introducing history to little children, I highly recommend this Usborne Beginner's History book set. I bought this entire box set recently and it contains 10 books and it is absolutely worth it!

If you are looking for child-friendly books in introducing history to little children, I highly recommend this Usborne Beginner's History book set. I bought this entire box set recently and it contains 10 books and it is absolutely worth it!
Vito is 29 months old.
So I was brainstorming the other way of what else could we do for our Body Unit and Mavi suggested that I should give Vito do a puzzle work. But he worked with our favourite body puzzle already and Mavi said, what about creating Vito’s face? And it hit me! Why not print a picture of Vito and turn it into a puzzle! This way he’ll be familiar of the order of his face from top to bottom, right?
Vito is 29 months old.
This is one of the highlights of our Body Unit! I was more than excited to give this to Vito! Just look at his face on how much he’s enjoying this activity!
Vito is 28 months old.
We were reading the Under the Ground book and chancing upon the page of mining, I decided that we should play pretend to look for jewels in a tub of sand! As you can see, this activity was intended for sifting the gravels and later on discover the jewels but I realized that sand is quite big so our sifter wouldn’t work. Thus, I added the scooper from Learning Resources, it has bigger holes in it so it can sift the sand effectively.
Vito is 29 months old. This activity was inspired by Simply Learning.
You can find lots of Earth worms under the ground! The main idea here is to search and collect all the Earth worms under the ground (oatmeal) using a magnetic wand. Fun activity for kids that both siblings can enjoy!
Here are all the materials and resources that we will be using in our Earth/Land Unit for the month of April. I prepared this list for those who wanted to follow our activities and those who are inquiring about the materials we are using.
I know you’ve heard about these already and have seen these markers in other homeschooler Moms. My little Vito had a renewal of interest and can’t stop using them! These dot markers are great tools in practicing hand/eye coordination and concentration. Aside from that, we also use it to learn shapes, colours and letters! Next year, we’ll start using them for counting.
Though there are plenty of FREE dot worksheets online, I prefer handwriting our own sheets to save ink. Here are some random photos of Vito using the dot markers.
For learning letters.
Marking shapes.
He keeps asking for more!
Working on letter ‘t’ again.
To save time, energy and INK, I cut out sheets of paper from the IKEA paper roll and just hand drawn everything. Then I place the sheets on one of the work trays so Vito can easily access them. He would usually work on them in the morning. Note that the markers can stain, but they can be wash off with soap AND water (with a little scrubbing). I have these markers since 2011 and they’re still good as new. Here’s the link if you are interested.
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I love nuts! We’ve got plenty around the house, thus I decided to come up with activities for Vito since he’s been seeing them around the house and loves to play with my walnuts.
Letter N Object Basket. Reinforce literacy, letter ‘n’ symbol and phonics, vocabulary, and verbal skills. In the basket we have: nine, upper and lowercase N/n, necktie, DIY sandpaper ‘n’, nuts.
Hammering Peanuts. This is a practical life activity that develops hand and eye coordination, and develop those hand and arm muscles. I first set it up in a tray, but the peanuts were slipping so I had to put cling film to hold them. Vito loves physical activities so he enjoyed this. The only drawback is that the hammer that we used were so tiny
Letter N Craft. I always make sure to include crafts in our weekly activities. My main goal here is for Vito to practice his manual dexterity like squeezing the glue, picking up small objects or pencils. Now that he’s familiar with glue, I gave him a glue with small opening for him to squeeze it.
Here he is applying peanut shells on the letter N. Improves pincer grasp through picking up small objects. Note to parents: always supervise your children when dealing with small objects.
Color Green. I’m introducing letter green this week. I gathered a few objects from his toys and place them all in a basket.
And we painted green in an A3 paper. Working with one color a week works for him.
When they dried up, we place them on the wall for everyday viewing.
Nut Matching. For visual discrimination (difference in objects), widen vocabulary and concentration.
Counting Walnuts. Builds early number and counting skills.
Forming Shapes using Nuts. Teaches shapes, fine motor skills and hand/eye coordination. This is Vito’s idea! I made a circle using the walnuts then he took the circle puzzle and place it in the middle, matching them together. Brilliant! We practice some more by drawing shapes on a piece of paper and he would trace the line using the peanut shells to form the shape. He enjoyed it!
And that’s about it! And what I happened to the nuts? I’m still consuming them LOL.
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Vito is 23 months old.
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After, the zoo, farm animals and parts of the body, I decided to do a fruit unit for this little boy as he loves to name fruits whenever we are in the supermarket. I like to come up with themed activities as it helps the child to expand their knowledge of certain objects and occasions, practice communication skills and improve their vocabulary.
Beginning Sounds. We’re using Hape Lowercase Puzzle.
Apple Prints. Color recognition and sensorial activity.
Bagging Fruits. A practical life activity that develops hand/eye coordination, concentration plus helping Mommy tidy up! We’re using Learning Resources Fruit Counters.
Matching Real Objects with Pictures. Developing early discrimination skills (difference between objects), hand/eye coordination and concentration. I made the fruit cards and you can get a copy from here or here.
Fruit Color Sorting using a Tong. Improving fine motor skills, pincer grasp, concentration and color recognition.
I love this tong from Ikea.
As of the moment, our color sorting activity involves two colors, but I introduce one (new) color at a time.
He’s seriously concentrating. Goodness!
Slicing a Banana. I was with him the whole time he’s doing this, reason why I don’t have an actual photo of the activity. Another great practical life activity to introduce to kids. This is an introductory activity of actual “slicing”, though we’ve done a lot of this using playdough. He still has difficulty coordinating his hands. We’ll get there though… need to practice more
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Vito is 22 months
Vito is in to matching these days! Whenever he sees an object that has a match on books, he would immediately get it and put it together. We started matching activities earlier with our Farm Animal Activities, and since we moved to zoo animals, I also created a set of matching cards for our Schleich toy figures (all Schleich images). So far we’re only using the tiger, jaguar, alligator, hippopotamus, elephant and lion figures.
Last week, I put up a body parts unit study for Vito with emphasis on the letter E. I’d like to share some of the materials and activities I prepared for him, of which he truly enjoyed.
1. Recognition of body parts.
Vito knows most of his body parts so I introduced our Body Parts Cards to him for abstract presentation. The cards were used for identification, but in different ways.
We are using my The Parts of the Body cards which you can get from here.
I’ve got three objects for our letter e: eye, elephant and egg. I so love this method! To expand the child’s vocabulary, learn phonics and letters all at the same time!
Vito always goes to this tray and would give me the object and say its name. As for letter e, I love that he can remember the sound of ‘e’ whenever he encounters this in books! How amazing!
3. Writing using our Egg shaped crayons
We are using Crayola here.
4. Tracing the body
Oh yes, this was fun! Mavi participated as well!
5. Letter E for egg
So he worked on peeling the eggshells…
and devoured the egg!
And we later on used the eggshell in our letter E craft.
I cut out some different shapes, used a yarn for the hair and paper plate for the head and we have this cute face! Vito was happy enough to wipe out all the glue as well.
7. Body Parts Puzzle
Yes, if there’s one time that a little toddler can do with body parts is to start using a simple dress-up bear puzzle, with head, body and legs portion and being emphasized. He couldn’t fit perfectly the pieces yet but he knows exactly where to put the head, limb and legs. We’ll do more of this!
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