No, we’re not carving pumpkins this Halloween. First, I don’t have the tools and second, we have no space for them. So instead we painted pumpkins and stick them on the crystal window of my son as decors!
Teeny Weeny Tot School
Thursday, October 23, 2014
We’re celebrating a few milestones!
First Vito can now sit upright in his chair. I used this opportunity to make him look at books and practice turning pages to master pincer grasp :)
And we started to wean on his own! He insisted actually. I was feeding him and wanted to take spoon from me which I did. I gave him the opportunity to feed himself and he actually did! Well he didn’t get to finish his lunch but it’s so AMAZING to see him trying to scoop the food from the his bow and put it in his mouth! He was doing it OVER and OVER until he got tired until Mommy has to do it for him :)
Sensory and weaning at the same time using a jelly!
This soft sensory blocks is not a favourite at the moment. But I do love their colours and their different textures. For now he just keeps on mouthing them and using them as teethers (yes these are teethers as well).
He loves to touch it using his pointer fingers though.
More pincer grasp practice using the chunky puzzles.
Oh and definitely loves my homemade shakers :)
I’m not into sensory bins as I don’t have the space to store them but we do have lots of boxes of animal figures (Mavi’s), and whenever I need him to get busy… I just give him these boxes to explore. He loves to take the animal figures from the box and put them just on the side.
For language, we did animal farms last week.
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Human Body Unit: The Skeletal System
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
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FREE Teeth Development Nomenclature Cards
Monday, October 20, 2014
This week we will explore on how teeth grow. I made the cards so we can look into the permanent set and discuss the functions of each. Download the file by clicking the image below.
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Color Gradient Painting
Sunday, October 19, 2014
We try to have an art class every Friday as what I indicated in our October Calendar. I bought new sets of paint last week, they’re 80% organic, non-toxic, water washable and doesn’t have the strong smell like that of Crayola. So my son had a renew interest in painting and he’s been doing it randomly not just during Friday.
This idea was from a picture I saw in my Facebook newsfeed and I wanted to try it with Mavi, teaching him the colour progression… from light to dark or the other way around.
He picked the primary colours and the green. We added 3 drops of white paint each time we lighten the colours. Son totally enjoyed this activity! He especially loves the part wherein we changes the shade of the colour and he gets excited to see the effect.
So here’s Mavi’s work and mine. I didn’t get to finish my work as I ended up assisting him in his colour mixtures.
As an extra work, he ended up mixing the primary colours…. to produce secondary colours so he can paint a rainbow. A few years ago we had colour mixing activities, you can pay it a visit as it became really popular and was featured in other blogs as well.
I’m so happy of his renewed interest! And with the new paints, I can allow him to do lots of art works without worrying of the strong paint smell :D
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