Top 30 Learning Activities for 3 to 3.5 Years Old
Friday, July 7, 2017
** Note: Always supervise your child, especially if he/she is handling sharp tools and small objects.
Building Words with the Moveable Alphabet and Objects
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Beginning Reading: Language Objects and Activities
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Montessori Inspired Farm Activities for Preschoolers
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Beginning Letter Phonics Cards
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Montessori Inspired April Activities for Preschoolers
Friday, March 24, 2017
I am so excited to share our April activities! We will be revisiting some activities we did in the past, and there are new ones too! I only prepared a few activities for April because (1) we still have to work on Earth Science activity trays (2) it’s Mavi’s Easter vacation so Vito would probably prefer to play with his brother than “home” school with Mommy and lastly (3) weather permits, we’ll be spending most of our days outdoors or do some field trips here or there. Anyway, just to be sure that I have something for Vito to work on in case we needed to stay home, here are some preschool activities for him!
Montessori Inspired Phonics Mystery Bag Game
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Montessori Inspired March Activities for Preschoolers
Sunday, February 26, 2017
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.
Learn to Write Letters for Preschoolers Using Sandpaper Letters
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Language Lessons for Preschoolers: RAMFBITG
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Vito is currently working hard learning his letters, sounds, and expanding his vocabulary. Due to weather constraint we are mostly stuck at home, therefore the lack of outdoor nature studies. So our mornings are mostly spent for his “homeschool”. We are busy reading books, learning letters, doing writing, and practical life activities.
In this post, I would like to share Vito’s language lessons which you can try in your homes as well. Remember my post on booklets? I mentioned in the post that at home we’re learning letters and their sounds in groups (color coded). First group is RAMF-BITG, second is CUSN-POLH and lastly DEXQY-WXZKVJ. This idea came from My Montessori Journey, one of my favourite blogs dated back in 2010. Read more about this grouping here.
Early Literacy with Beginning Letter Sound BINGO Game
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Writing Practise for Preschoolers
Sunday, October 16, 2016
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.
Pre-reading Using Montessori Language Objects
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Without much further ado, here’s my collection of objects which I started collecting 5 years ago.
Preschool Letter R
Sunday, September 4, 2016
We started our preschool unit with letter R and I divided the activities into two: (1) phonological awareness and (2) pre-writing. The pre-reading activities is scheduled on Mondays and pre-writing on Tuesdays. Vito does no more than 20 minutes of “school” per day. The rest of the activities, Vito considers it as “game” or “play”. During “school” time, I would quit the activities once I see that he’s bored or not interested. My experience has taught me that it’s not about the quantity of activities that I give to my kids that matter. In fact, they get tired so easily and bored when I do that. Especially with Vito, I learned that I should do things slowly with him, and that I should respect and follow his own timeline of learning. Mavi was different, he absorbs anything… he’s always interested, Vito is very choosy.
Going back, this week we’re starting with the letter R. Vito can name the letters of the alphabet if he’s in the mood so I decided that I should be giving him pre-reading activities so he won’t get bored. Below are some of the activities this week for pre-reading and pre-writing.
Homeschool Activities for Toddlers 32 Months Old
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
LETTER PATTERNS
One of the challenging task that he’s working on this month. We’re working with letters CUSN-POLH and here he’s doing the letter C. This printed material was from The Confessions of a Homeschooler and the magnetic board plus the patterns were from Melissa & Doug Deluxe Wooden Magnetic Pattern Blocks Set.SANDPAPER NUMBERS AND COUNTING WITH DO DOTS
He loves the sandpaper numbers! So we worked on tracing the numbers first and I demonstrated by counting it using the do a dot marker. So aside from pre-writing, it’s also a great practise for 1:1 correspondence. The sandpaper numbers can be purchased here and you can get the markers here, Do a Dot Markers.MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
We love Safari Toobs and its his first time to use the Musical Instruments Toob. As of the moment, we do the typical match to figure and picture using the 3-Part Cards from The Wise Owl (Philippine based). You can check about this activity here, Montessori Inspired Activity: Musical Instruments.ANIMALS IN THE WILD
Learning about the animals in the wild, using this set from The Wise Owl again (the 3-Part cards for the Safari Toobs Wild Animals is also in my 200+ Toobs Matching Cards Bundle Pack). He can name a few but find it difficult to say the names of other animals like the rhino, hippo, and panther. You can check the details of this activity here, Introducing Wild Animals to Toddlers.ANIMAL COVERS PATTERN MATCHING
One of our favorite printable from our shop (Animal Skin Cover Matching Cards)! Matching animals with their covers. We are using animals from Schleich and Safari Toobs Wild Animals. You can check the activity here, Animal Skin Covers Sensorial Matching Activity for Preschoolers.MUSICAL HAND BELLS
We’re having the Sound and Music Unit and one activity is using these musical handbells. You can check how we conducted our activity here, Montessori-Inspired Sounds and Music: The Musical Hand Bells.ANIMALS AND THEIR LETTER SOUNDS
A little bit of phonics activity by matching animal names to their beginning sounds. We just worked from letters A to E. Animals are from Schleich and foam letters from Munchkin Letters and Numbers Bath Toys.MONTESSORI KNOBLESS CYLINDERS
This is one of his favorites for this month. You can get the Knobless Cylinders at any Montessori shop or here. Read about this amazing sensorial material and activity here, Montessori Sensorial Activities using the Knobless Cylinders.LETTER TRACING
Vito is currently obsessed with tracing so I got him a dry wipe/wet wipe chalk markers which has no strong scent. I used to purchase those dry erase pens that are using ink but they really smell, and I just discovered these chalk markers which are perfect for Vito. It’s non toxic, has bright colors and can be removed easily! You can get these from AmazonUK and AmazonUS. The wipe and erase cards were Mavi’s and I purchased them from Singapore (Kumon), you can also get them here. And if you have more time and want to create your own cards you can also get this printable instead, Alphabet Tracing Mats.Beginning Sounds Through Language Objects
Sunday, May 22, 2016
This week, Vito and I are exploring beginning letter sounds through objects we can find at home. This is very similar to the Alphabet Sort Montessori Inspired activity, but in our case we are not sorting the objects yet. What Vito and I are doing is to just name or identify the objects and match them to our control sheet.
FREE Alphabet Cards
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Favourite Phonic Games
Monday, March 21, 2016
I always find it hard to get Vito to do alphabet activities with me. Mavi was already learning how to spell 2.5 years old and although Vito knows the letters and sounds they make, he’s still not at it when it comes to doing the activities.
So I started reading my favourite blogs (since 2010) and came across these activities from NurturingLearning.com. These activities requires movements which Vito loves to do to keep him engaged in alphabet activities.