Preschool Unit Ocean Learning Pack
Friday, June 15, 2018
Letter Themed Activities and Learn & Play Link Up #2
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Vito and I has started our letter sound of the week activities. I guess most of you are already familiar with it. It’s basically a curriculum wherein you introduce and focus on one letter sound a week. It’s a famous curriculum used for ages 2 – 4 years old (or below). I used this with Mavi and was totally effective, so I decided to do it as well with Vito.
I’ve gathered fun letter activities from our previous linkup and you can try any of these to your kids. They are fun, engaging and easy to prepare! You will find the links after the image.
Featured Posts for Spring Flowers this Week:
B is for Boat from Every Star is Different
T is for Transportation Unit from Study at Home Mama
U is for Underground, Montessori Inspired Homeschool for Toddlers Star Themed, Dog Themed Unit from Golden Reflections Blog
F is for Fire: Teaching Phonic Sounds from Study at Home Mama
For this week on The Pinay Homeschooler, I am featuring Vito’s Letter ‘a’ Sound Activities.
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Bright Beaming Toddler Week 1
Monday, September 1, 2014
Mavi is 16 months old.
Theme: Cow | Vocabulary: Calf | Shape: Square | Letter: A | Number: 1 |Nursery Rhyme: Hey, Diddle Diddle
MONDAY
Theme: Cow
Vocabulary Word: Calf
I introduced the theme by showing pictures of cows from book and pictures which I printed out. He immediately recognized the cow and said “cow” without a hint from me. At this stage he also loves to point out letters which he recognizes like c,a and o. So everytime we encounter the word cow, we say the sounds of the letters. He is also proficient in speaking the world calf. He would say it as “cahhffff”, exaggerating letter F.
TUESDAY
Shape: Square
He loves looking at the picture of a square, and holding the object as well which was from Playskool Shape Sorter. He can’t pronounce it yet, he just keeps on saying “ker”. As part of the suggested activity, we walked around the house and looked for square objects. We pointed to to floor tiles, counting the sides of the square and some stuff we found at the kitchen as well (biscuits).
WEDNESDAY
Letter: A
Mavi knows the letter A already, so this day was a breeze. The activities didn't consume much of my time so I get to work some chores. I wrote the small and capital letter side to side and made him color it. The problem is that, my little boy doesn't like scribbling/shading, so after 10 seconds of holding the crayon and scribbling in any direction he immediately got bored. So I ended up doing the activity :)
THURSDAY
Number: 1 / One
This is the first time that I'm teaching him a number. To introduce the number, I did a similar approach to the letter A, I wrote the number 1 on a paper adding a label on it, and on the side of a paper I drew one dot. I told him "one", he said "an". I showed him the dot on the side, made him feel it by feeling the dot with his fingers on the colors.
We also wrote the number 1 over and over again on a piece of paper. I made him hold the crayons, and made him write the number 1 on a piece of paper, of course I'm doing the writing I just guide his hand.
Good thing we have this 1-2-3 toy form fitter again. He can identify the number 1 and now knows how to put the number in the right hole. Unlike before, he doesn't know what to do with this toy. So now, he keeps doing it over and over again, dropping the number 1 on the hole.
Friday
Nursery Rhyme: Hey Diddle Diddle
Nothing much on nursery rhyme, it's just a repetitive recital of the poem. Even though we already have this rhyme on his book, I still printed it out and put it on the book just for documentation purposes.
Learning Wall
Since I haven't found a poster material, for the mean time, I used our wall for this week.
Montessori Practical Life
Opening and closing the barrels.
Linking to:
Montessori Monday
TGIF Linky Party
Teach Beside Me
Preschool Corner
Teaching Mama
I Can Teach My Child
Home + School = Afterschool!
Montessori Inspired Farm Activities for Preschoolers
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Chinese New Year Mini Preschool Unit
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Vito and I worked on a brief Chinese New Year Unit last week. The resources we used were from the Chinese New Year Mini Preschool Learning Pack I created for him years ago.
Learning Activities for 28 Months Toddler
Saturday, March 12, 2016
Montessori Inspired February Activities for Preschoolers
Friday, January 20, 2017
Thank goodness January is almost over! I really don’t like January, it’s that time of the year where we get to experience the worst weather condition. Fortunately, we have fair weather this year, it’s actually warm! But, I am so looking forward to spring now, and I can’t wait for all these gloomy days to be over. And speaking of spring, this month, I’ll start adding “spring” activities into our homeschool activities. We will be using traditional Montessori materials for most part and in some, we’ll have themed activities. Hope you like what I prepared for Vito for this month.
Introducing Montessori Hundred Board for Preschoolers
Friday, October 14, 2016
So the other day, I was tidying up my storage shelf and Vito saw our Hundred Board. He immediately took it out and excitedly said “Oh numbers! Let’s count!” and that’s what we basically did for the past few days.
St. Patrick's Day Preschool Mini Unit
Thursday, February 21, 2019
I am pleased to present our St. Patrick's Day Mini Unit, packed with enjoyable and stimulating activities for preschoolers, pre-k, and kindergarten children. This package includes various activities to help your child practice fine motor skills, alphabet tracing, hands-on math, and more! If you want more St. Patrick's Day-themed materials, please visit our website by clicking here.
Montessori Inspired March Activities for Preschoolers
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Montessori Wrap-Up
Saturday, November 12, 2011
We did these a few weeks ago and because we spend too much outdoors these days... I forgot to write about it.
Learning how to read using the pink series objects and Melissa and Doug’s magnetic letters. What we did here is that I would make the sound of each letter of the word via segmentation and Mavi has to form that word using the magnetic letters. I use the our CVC objects as his guide... but here he has to form the correct order of letters on his own according to the sounds I make.
Learning to count from 10 to 20. Here he has to put the correct number of buttons on the sheet based on the number card I show him. This is just to enhance his counting skills for the ‘teens number. We did an introductory to the ‘teens number here.
A matching game using number cards and beads. He has to match the number cards to that on the beads on the felt sheet.
Using bear counters in practicing counting 11 to 20.
Skip counting by tens. From here we will practice counting 30 to 50.. then to 100. I will also start giving him skip counting activities by 2’s, 3’s and 5’s.
Guess the letter game. He has to guess the letter that he is holding through his sense of touch. It’s similar to mystery bag game. This one he liked so much but he peeks through the eye mask most of the time... but it was really fun. We should be doing this more often as it involves the use of his other senses.
Then he did lots of cutting and gluing. Mostly he wants to do things on his own and doesn’t want to be instructed. He would just ask me for a paper, colored pens, scissor and glue and would do free play. He would pretend he’s ion Artzooka and doing crafts. But I insist that I supervise as he is using scissor.
He loves to draw... he loves to create trees, grasses, the sun... then there’s drawing of his family, with houses and cars :)
B4FIAR: We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Mavi is 36 months old.
My son picked We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen as our next unit for B4FIAR. And since I realized that the subject here is on bears, I find it wise to row Blueberries for Sal at the same time. So we’ve been reading these books everyday, and singing Rosen’s bear hunt song at the same time. But the focus of this week’s activities is on We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.
STORY SEQUENCING.
A wonderful activity that we truly enjoyed. Read about it here.
Then we further explored the book by doing our very own bear hunt activity. I posted it here.
MATH. We did two versions of bear counting. The first was inspired by this post. I love how they practiced counting and color sorting at the same time.
Then we also had our version of cards and counters (bears) but instead of using a number symbol, I used a hand symbol to indicate the number of bears to be counted. Surprisingly, my son can recognize what number the hand signifies by just looking at it :)
I also made some pattern matching printables to go with our unit study. Here, Mavi has to matched the patterns.
We studied animal tracks and played the matching game. I got the file that I printed out from here.
I wanted to demonstrate what is animal track and how they differ from one another so I made use of our playdough and some of his animal figures for this. Happily, each animal figures produced different tracks.
He enjoyed making tracks and this animal track activities. He keeps asking for it for several days.
LANGUAGE.
Using the B4FIAR packs I downloaded from Homeschool Creations, we build, spell and read words
He easily build the word “mud”.
But with words with composed of more than 5 letters, he would at times miss the correct order of the letters.
Then there’s the clipcards for practicing beginning letter sounds.
SCIENCE.
The subject for this unit is bear, so I was happy to get hold of the brown bear book from our library. It basically consist of everything that you need to know about this massive creature. This book was very informative. It first started describing the different parts of the bear, then goes to describe the bear habitat and youngs, how they search for their food, how they sleep and how they play.
I looovee this book. It has wonderful pictures that my son can clearly visualize what a real bear looks like. I hope I own the whole series.
I downloaded worksheets from Kidzone and First School for our bear study and writing practice.
PRACTICAL LIFE.
We did a bunch of cutting activities. I made use of our old magazines instead of printing a cutting strip.
First, I made a guide for him to cut that is by marking the borders of the picture in the magazine as shown above. Then he has to cut the picture using that guide. So far, he liked this idea of cutting magazines and with lines.
Then he asked to cut more. And told me that he wants to make the guide this time.
Mavi tracing the brown the bear. He didn’t color it though.
The worksheet from First School.
Working on the pre-writing sheets that comes with the pack.
PLAY PRETEND.
He wanted to experience being a bear. So I made him claws which he really really love! Then he looked at the picture of the brown bear from this book and told me he should also have a brown face, so I made him a brown mask as well.
Well I just thought that these pictures were so funny. He tried to growl like the bear and keep roaming around the house scaring me and his Dad :) Precious.
And that’s what we did for our We’re Going on a Bear Hunt unit. Hope it inspire and entertained you :)