The changing of the moon’s shape has fascinated Vito. Early this year, we’ve been seeing the moon as early as 1 pm in the afternoon, so he gets to identify and describe its shape. He would call the shapes “small moon”, “half moon”, and “circle moon”. With the knowledge that the moon changes its appearance, I read a few books to Vito to explain why this is happening.
Now, this post contains some of the activities we did to learn about the moon phases. These are hands-on activities, and we used most of our printed materials from my shop. Continue reading the post to learn more about it.
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Showing posts with label preschoolY2. Show all posts
Types of Clouds for Preschoolers
Sunday, January 28, 2018
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.
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!
Hands-on Activity on Comparing Numbers
Monday, December 4, 2017
We are moving on with our math by introducing new math concepts, one of which is the more or less activity and using the greater than or less than symbol. To do this, I made use of the holiday season’s symbols so Vito can easily relate and used manipulatives like some Christmas erasers and Montessori beads.
Christmas Themed Tray Activities for Preschoolers
Friday, December 1, 2017
Happy first day of December!!! I’ve been away for awhile, busy with life and other extra curricular things… because you know, “it’s that time of the year”. Anyway, despite of all the happenings, I was able to assemble these simple Christmas-themed activities for my 4 years old. My aim here is to simply introduce the meaning of Christmas, the symbols, learning Christmas songs and a little bit of arts and crafts. Hope you like these activities!
Montessori Inspired Continent 3 Part Cards and Booklet
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Vito is 4 years and Mavi is 9 years old.
One thing that I love with making our own learning materials is that I get to customize them according to the kids’ liking. One of these materials is the continent learning printables I made last year which we often use. At first, Vito would match it according to colors, now that he’s older, he’s trying to know the names of the continents, especially the ones where he’s been to.
One thing that I love with making our own learning materials is that I get to customize them according to the kids’ liking. One of these materials is the continent learning printables I made last year which we often use. At first, Vito would match it according to colors, now that he’s older, he’s trying to know the names of the continents, especially the ones where he’s been to.
Beginning Letter Sound Activity Sheets
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Vito’s favourite work in the morning are our pink series cards (we try to work on one vowel sound a week) and these beginning sound activity sheets. I made these cards years ago (just revamped them) and used them with Mavi, it’s one of his favourite language works. Because Mavi can write letters at 3 years old, we didn’t get to use our moveable alphabet and instead he would just write the missing letters.
Thanksgiving Themed Rhyme and Beginning Letter Sound BINGO Game
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
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.
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