I mentioned in my Instagram account that Vito is very much interested about the weather lately, and to be specific, he loves learning about clouds. It all started when we were reading National Geographic Kids Weather book every night. From here, he started to identify the clouds whenever we are outdoors, whether its a rainy, fluffy, or clear clouds (his own vocabulary). So while he is still enthusiastic about it, I decided to throw a simple and not so original cloud activity. Again, I worked on this activity with Mavi when he was 3 years old, and I am happy to do it again with Vito.
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Preschool Activities for the Chinese New Year
Thursday, January 25, 2018
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In celebration of the Chinese New Year, we are having a few activities at home to learn about this big celebration of the Chinese community. Having this cultural activities is an opportunity to explore with your child about foreign countries and different culture and traditions. And because we (Filipinos) are greatly influenced by the Chinese culture, from beliefs, to food, to traditional practices we are joining and celebrating the New Year with our Chinese friends!
I came up with simple activities, again mostly reused ideas from Mavi’s time (Study of Ancient China) and some of these were from Pinterest too. The activities aim to introduce China to Vito as well as the celebrations and traditions of the Chinese community. I also included links to my resources so you can easily replicate these! Enjoy!
In celebration of the Chinese New Year, we are having a few activities at home to learn about this big celebration of the Chinese community. Having this cultural activities is an opportunity to explore with your child about foreign countries and different culture and traditions. And because we (Filipinos) are greatly influenced by the Chinese culture, from beliefs, to food, to traditional practices we are joining and celebrating the New Year with our Chinese friends!
I came up with simple activities, again mostly reused ideas from Mavi’s time (Study of Ancient China) and some of these were from Pinterest too. The activities aim to introduce China to Vito as well as the celebrations and traditions of the Chinese community. I also included links to my resources so you can easily replicate these! Enjoy!
Arctic Diorama
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Polar Activities for Preschoolers
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Here are our 9 activity trays this winter season, where in some days, Vito can finish 3 activities in a day while in some, almost none. These ideas are good for about 2-3 weeks of learning. Vito would also work on some non-polar activities in between, mostly practising reading with pink series, playing with our Grimm’s blocks, Legos, and just about anything he wants to do. There are also spontaneous activities that come in between, mostly a product of discussion and as book extensions. I mostly share these in my Instagram account, but if it’s post-worthy, you’ll be able to read it in the blog as well.
Penguin Themed Matching Clocks to Time
Friday, January 5, 2018
One of the things I love to do is putting some twist on our activities to keep them more engaging and fun for Vito. Last month, he began reading the time, with Mavi modelling the reading. Every morning he would wake me up and say “Mom, it’s 8 o’clock” and when I checked it is indeed 8 in the morning! He finally figured out how to read the clock with the small hand pointing to a number and the longer hand on the 12. So I grabbed the opportunity to practise clock reading with this penguin clock and time matching printable. I used this activity with Mavi 5 years ago and now Vito is loving it as well!
Animals of Antarctica Printable with Safari Toob Antarctica Set
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Have you seen Safari Toob Antarctic toob yet? To me, it’s one of the best toob they ever had! I mean, aside from penguins, can you name other animals that live in Antarctica? Quite difficult right? That’s why we are so happy that Safari Ltd finally came up with these figures so we can introduce our kids to other animals thriving in Antarctica other than penguins! So if you have kids or students who love animals and learning about places, Safari Antarctica Toob is one good learning toy you can invest in.
Winter Printables: Ten Frames Counting Activities
Monday, December 18, 2017
I am so happy to share Vito’s favourite counting activities and materials, our Ten Frames Winter printables!!! This printable was created out of pinetree counting sheets which I created last autumn. It was so popular that I wanted to recreate it and at the same time, include ten frames seen in our dinosaur post which was Vito’s favourite too. So combining these together, plus a tracing activity of numbers has led me to produce these products!
The Nativity and Story Cards
Saturday, December 9, 2017
It brings me joy to recount the story of the nativity to our children. We have made it a yearly tradition to read various books of different versions, and sometimes we even watch nativity movies to fully grasp the meaning of Christmas. Now that Vito is old enough to comprehend, I incorporated story cards and activity sheets to accompany our book reading this year.
FREE 12 Days of Christmas Counting Cards
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
We love the 12 Days of Christmas song! The kids love it so much that we kept on singing it over and over again and always speeding up as we approach the 12th day. So as part of the kids’ interest, I decided to create these counting cards to go along with the song. Vito enjoys setting up the counting cards as we sing each of the day. To share our love for the song, we are sharing the counting cards to you so you can do this activity at home with your kids too! Enjoy!
Introducing the Montessori Pink Series for Beginning Reading
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
I've talked about Vito’s sensitive years for letters in my Instagram account. Since September, he’s been into letter sounds, identifying beginning letter sounds, sorting objects according to sound, making rhymes, forming words, pretending to read and deciphering words etc. so I decided to give him a “structured” activity on alphabets. Here’s what we have been doing so far:
- Five in a Row activities that are tied to a letter
- A letter of the week kind of activity to go along with a holiday or season (letter l and letter a)
- Reading lots of books
- After learning a letter, we would read and create his own phonics booklet
During the course of these activities, I observed that he would try to decipher a word, or pretend to create words using sticky tapes, in writing and using our moveable alphabet. Plus, he knows 90% of the letter sounds (though he's still confused with c and k). With the signs, I knew he would be ready for the Montessori Pink Series. And oh boy, it was the best decision I made!
Learning The Human Skeleton for Preschoolers
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
We’ve been singing a lot of Halloween songs at home lately and Vito was fascinated with the Skeleton Dance song. I decided to give him some activities on skeletons just like what Mavi and I did years ago (The Skeletal System).
Preschool Learning Letter L Activities
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Presenting our letter “l” activities! We’ve started “letter of the week” kind of activities since September because of Vito’s interest in letter sounds and reading. We’ve been reading FIAR books over the summer and this led him to further explore words and language activities.
Hands-on Learning on Animal Habitats for Preschool
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Last week, Vito and I revisited world biomes and animal habitats as we were talking about the fact that not all places in the world have forest whose leaves turn into yellow or orange. This discussion led to a series of presentation of the world’s biome like desert, rainforest, taiga etc. Our printable from the shop was very handy when I presented this Vito because of the pictures, and he was very interested on the animals living on each biome.
Hands-on Learning of Geometric Shapes
Monday, September 25, 2017
Vito is currently in the mood for learning geometric shapes. I guess he was inspired by his older brother who is currently studying basic geometry at home. Vito has passed the stage of basic shapes, the ones you see in children’s puzzles and the like. He’s been playing with those since he was a toddler, so I decided to introduce him to geometric shapes in the Montessori classroom. It would have been nice if we own the Geometric Cabinet, but because we can’t afford one and we don’t have space for it, these insets which are basically materials for writing is a good alternative (best to none). Note that these are not the traditional metal insets, we are using the plastic version.
Snake Game: Search for the Perfect 10
Thursday, September 21, 2017
FREE Letter L Dot and Tracing Activity Sheets
Monday, September 18, 2017
The leaves
are beginning to fall! We’re seeing a lot in our area so yesterday, we collected a few and brought it home. Vito immediately took our letter L dot sheets to go along with his new discoveries: fallen leaves!
Montessori Inspired Autumn Themed Learning Activities
Saturday, September 16, 2017
I finally organized our shelf and added autumn-themed activity trays to go along with the change in season. Vito has been learning a lot from the outdoors, discovering new things (nature finds) and has been observing the changes in his surroundings. Now to extend this learning, I prepared these activity trays. How it works? These are prepared and placed in the shelf (except for the paints). At times, Vito would randomly select an activity and there are times I would place the activity tray on the table and invite him to play (or work) with me. If he’s not interested on the said activity, I let him return it back to the shelf and make him select a new one. This is how I check what’s miss and hit of the learning trays.
Note that this is a MONTH LONG of activities!
FREE Letter A Dot and Tracing Activity Sheets
Friday, September 15, 2017
Last spring Vito and I started to work on letters and letter sounds again (Beginning Letter Phonics Cards and Beginning Reading: Language Objects and Activities). Because he enjoyed working on these Letter B activity sheets, he always asked for “more” sheets to work on and always repeating “buh for bird” and other b objects. This led me to create more sheets! And because it’s apple season, I gave him “Aa” and it was perfect! He worked on all three sheets! More of this letter A activities but for now, I’m sharing our FREE letter A sheets.
Fall Counting Activities Using Nature’s Objects (FREE Printable)
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
It’s our favourite time of the year and we are spending more time outdoors observing the change in season and gathering objects from mother nature! In my Instagram, I’ve been posting pictures of the boys gathering chestnuts, conkers, pine cones and acorn outdoors and bringing them home. If you’ve been following my blog, we call them “nature finds” and at home, the boys would play with them, mostly exploring the objects (texture, smell and color) and of course, counting how many items they collected.
What You Need to Know About the Early Childhood Montessori Math Materials
Sunday, August 6, 2017
I adore Montessori math materials and how it enables the child to experience the true meaning of quantity and numbers. Montessori math is not just about memorization, counting and abstraction, its main goal is to build a relationship between the child and the materials, learning with ease and enjoying the work through engaging activities. I own most of the Montessori math early childhood, and starting to collect the elementary for my oldest child. They’re quite pricey, but worth it. On how to use these materials, I have albums from The Montessori Parent, Cultivating Dharma and Garden of Francis, and I also administer other extension activities that I could think of (I love doing this!).
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