Collection of Easter Activities and {Learn & Play Link Up}
Thursday, March 10, 2016
Our Spring Season Picture Cards
Monday, March 7, 2016
Spring is just around the corner and I’ve been thinking about the activities that the boys and I can do. I was very much inspired by Deb’s post on Spring Season Cards, so I borrowed the idea of printing pictures that relates to spring and we will be using them for the follwing:
- introducing the season of spring to Vito
- creating stories using the picture cards
- inspiration for crafts
- inspiration for outdoor activities
- St. Patrick and Easter activities
- farm animals and their babies
- animal life cycles
March Activities and {Learn & Play Link Up}
Thursday, February 18, 2016
March is fast approaching and I’ve been doing some planning for the boy’s activities for next month. I am also looking forward for a warm weather so we can do outdoor play and exploration. For this week’s featured activities, let me share Vito’s first “themed” unit:
We had a lot of fun with these, especially the scooping of pompoms and the paint works!
Now, for this week’s featured posts, I am sharing the activities that you can do for the month of March!
How We Learn Colours These Days
Sunday, February 7, 2016
We finally started our colour toddler basket last week wherein we put red objects in the basket for learning colours. We started with the colour Red, the colour of Valentines Day and Chinese New Year
There are so many versions of this basket, sometimes they are called discovery baskets or treasure baskets wherein Mommies gather specific or themed objects and place them in a basket for the baby and toddler to explore. Now what makes our version different?
Toddler Beginnings 07
Saturday, March 28, 2015
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I can barely take photos of Vito doing activities these days as my hands are also too busy being involved with it. So one technique that most blogger Moms do is to take photos ahead of their materials for presentation. I’d like to borrow this technique, but I will try to do my best to take snap shots of Vito doing these activities in action since I still find it cute to post some photos of him LOL.
UPPER PHOTOS
- Montessori Letter Work book and Bible Stories (for Lent)
- Yellow Colour Basket
- Hape Counting stackers (a favourite!)
MIDDLE PHOTOS
- Mini unit block toys (he is enjoying stacking this blocks!)
- Melissa and Doug Jumbo Zoo Puzzle
BOTTOM PHOTOS
We’ve been using the Montessori Letter work for weeks now and Vito loves tracing the letters. We’re also reading the Bible Stories (this was Mavi’s) for Lent. The rest of our reading/language materials can be found here.
Because Easter is just around the corner, we’re doing a few Easter themed activities. This one is a colour matching activity. I got the pail from a local book store and the yellow mini baskets from Dunnes. I am sure that there’s plenty of these at Amazon.
Another activity is the 1:1 correspondence. Vito loves transferring objects and I am sure he’s going to enjoy this one!
New activity this week is the building of blocks! This is an old toy and I got it out for Vito to use. Vito is starting to enjoy stacking the blocks. I torn between getting the pink tower and brown stairs or Melissa and Doug Unit Blocks.
We love our Giotto Bebe finger paints! It has NO SMELL AT ALL and SO EASY TO WASH! I came across this brand when we were staying in Belgrade and I fell in love with it instantly. Their finger paints are so creamy and Vito loves its vivid colours! And it is sooo easy to remove (and non toxic too!).
And I let him use our Do-a-Dot markers! This is colouring a cross for Lent. We’re taking a break from crayons and pens so I’m letting him use this stamp markers for variation. This he has to practice stamping, not writing as he used to. I have to demonstrate first what to do with it. We’ll be using this a little bit more for practice.
It has been sunny for the past weeks and we’re always outdoors!
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Religions in Asia (with Resources)
Monday, August 11, 2014
Last week we started our Asia Unit Study by looking at the different beliefs and religions of the Asians. Click the link of the image for the product details.
We started off with the presentation of materials and an overview of each religion.
Most of my learning materials come with fact cards. If you might be wondering why, I use these cards as a tool for reading practice for Mavi. At times books are not available and these cards come in handy.
Speaking of books, our library has the best resource for this :) My favourite so far are the books from World of Faiths series. I HIGHLY recommend them if you are looking for books that teaches religion. They are so engaging, easy to read, very informative but not overwhelming to little ones and it has suggested activities to go along with the specific religion of study.
The books on the series are the following [aff. links]:
These are really wonderful wonderful books. If I have the resources, I would want them all. They’re treasures! My son reads them every night.
Now, with the books and cards… I printed a map of Asia and Mavi and I tried to mark the places based on their religions. And look what happened when Mavi encountered the YinYang symbol… he labeled it as Kung Fu Panda LOL.
My next post would be about the craft activities that goes along with this study. So stay tuned!
In addition, we also watched videos of the important celebrations of the three major religions: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism.
Christianity: Easter and Christmas. Here we watched the death and resurrection of Christ.
Islam: Observance of Eid-ul-Fitr
Hinduism: Celebration of Diwali, the Festivity of Lights.
Linking to:
Montessori Monday
TGIF Linky Party
Teach Beside Me
Preschool Corner
Teaching Mama
I Can Teach My Child
Home + School = Afterschool!
Color Theory Part I
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Helloooo!! How’s everyone??? I haven’t been in this blog for a week! Oh well, it must be the Easter vacation hangover or probably enjoying much of our Spring break :)
I’m participating in this Spring Blog Hop, it sounds fun! That is why we did colors today to jumpstart our Spring activities :)
I decided to take this one slow, so we only did two color schemes and skipped the colorwheel. I’m using the The ABC’s of Art to discuss the primary and secondary colors (we’ll be doing other colors next). So I took our red, yellow and blue paints to create secondary colors. I made use of cotton buds LOL as our paint brushes. Since we’ll just be mixing paints, it would save me a lot of work since I can dispose them easily rather than using paint brushes where I have to wash them after we use them.
Mine is on the upper portion. I made sure to have my own work too… and surprisingly, I enjoyed it!
With all colors available (primary and secondary), we made a rainbow :) These are the colors that makes a rainbow in order from the colorwheel.
This is my son’s version of rainbow colors.
Next, we’ll do the colorwheel and study other color schemes like complimentary colors, warm and cool colors, and maybe neutral colors as well.
Linking to:
Montessori Monday
Teach Beside Me
Montessori Spring Blog Hop
More Dino Activities (Free Activity Sheets)
Friday, March 1, 2013
Aside from this, we also explored the world of dinosaurs through the books we borrowed from the library.
Play the pattern game and graphing game from the dinosaur pack I downloaded from 2 Teaching Mommies.
Oh he loved the graphing game! We used his Legos this time. Last year, we used easter eggs (pretend that it was dinosaur eggs!).
And there’s the playdough of course :)
Last year we also had an exciting activity, we pretended to be scientists and excavate dinosaurs using my dino sensory tub.
Because my son loves his dino toobs so much, I made him a few more activity sheets and since I love my readers, I’m sharing it well. It includes graphic game using some dinosaurs as seen here, and grid game sheet which my son and I enjoyed playing as well.
Enjoy!!
Linking to:
Montessori MondayPreschool Corner
TGIF Linky Party
Teach Beside Me
B4FIAR: Ask Mr. Bear
Monday, May 21, 2012
Here are some pictures that best describes the activities we did to go along with the book.
Identifying beginning sounds using the printable pack which I downloaded as mentioned previously.
Where’s the Birthday Cake game which has the same mechanism as Where’s the Easter Card game. Another favorite math game!
Oh and this is exactly the reason why I seldom have time to post. This is out of topic, but we really really love playing outdoors.
Animal farm family matching game. The cards can be downloaded here. Well this is just my version, I made this because I was inspired by My Montessori Moments who has a COMPLETE set of animal families for download.
Lastly, we sort zoo and farm animals.
I am looking forward of rowing this again, and hopefully by then I have enough idea, resources and time to carry out additional activities.
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