Land and Water Forms Learning Materials
Saturday, July 2, 2016
Learning About Waterfalls and Rivers
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Vito is 31 months old.
Another fantastic activity that we did this week was the making of waterfalls and river.
Ocean-Themed Practical Life Activity
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
This was a simple and easy to setup activity for Vito. Looks simple but he loves doing this over and over again!
Hands-On Learning: Land and Water Forms
Monday, June 27, 2016
Hands-on Learning on the Types of Fossils
Friday, June 24, 2016
Indoor and Outdoor Light Activities for Kids
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Investigating the Past Life with Safari Toob Fossils
Friday, June 17, 2016
Anyway, Mavi is officially joining Vito’s weekly themed activities as he’s almost done with school. He misses “Mom” school and urged me to let him join with the activities. So while Vito is all about play and learn, I’m giving Mavi some serious investigative work like research, more readings, and selective hands-on activities.
Exploring Colors with DIY Light Table and Stencils
Thursday, June 16, 2016
We’re having simple activities for our Light and Shadow Unit. Since it’s been raining most of the time, we’re doing much of the activities indoors (much to my dismay). So probably, creating shadows under the sun has to wait, and shadows using torch will also have to wait since our sunset here is 10PM. We might redo this activity in September or October, when night time comes early so we can play with our torch and make shadows.
Montessori Inspired Dinosaur Clean-Up Activity
Friday, June 10, 2016
Vito is 30 months old.
It was so warm last Tuesday that I asked the boys to play outside and then wash their dinosaur toys. Oh boy, they were so happy to do so!
Inspiring Kids To Do Research
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Fun Dinosaur Color Sorting with Homemade Playdough Recipe
Monday, June 6, 2016
Collection of Transportation Activities for Toddlers
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Creativity with Shape Mags (Stick N Stack)
Friday, June 3, 2016
Vito is 30 months old.
I bought this amazing product when we went to the US last month. We have Magnatiles and we love it, but the problem is we can’t really make something more out of those squares and triangles. When I came across Stick N Stack in Amazon and read good reviews, I just needed to buy those beautiful window tiles and carts! And if you ask me, yes they work really well with Magnatiles!
And since we’re having Transportation Unit, I made Vito create his own cart. Oh boy, he played with it for hours!! I asked Mavi to assist his little brother for awhile but later on left when he realized that Vito doesn’t want him for a playmate.
FREE Types of Clouds 3 Part Cards
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Transportation Unit: On the Road Vehicles
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Vito is 30 months old.
I was pretty busy the other day that I didn’t have time to think of activities related to road vehicles. So I made the boys create their own landscape of a road with vehicles on it.
Books on Vehicles that We Love
Monday, May 30, 2016
These are the books that we are loving and using in our Transportation Unit this week! These are perfect for kids ages 2 to 7 years old! Check out the details below.
Learning the Different Types of Clouds
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Anyway, the first book he read was the Clouds Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1 (AmazonUS) (Book Depository). This is by far the best book I’ve encountered that illustrated the different types of clouds in a simple way, and the explanations are so basic and easy to grasp for kids. So after reading the book, we sat down the next day and worked on some hands-on activities for retention.
Transportation Unit: Water Vehicles
Friday, May 27, 2016
Vito is 30 months old.
Both of my boys were looking forward to this Transportation Unit as they love cars, trains and airplanes. We started off by introducing Vito the water vehicles using Safari Toob In the Water figures, a little water sensory tub and matching activity.
Exploring the Landmarks of the World
Thursday, May 26, 2016
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.
Teaching Kids About their Lungs
Saturday, May 21, 2016
Puzzles for Learning!
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Because Toddlers Can Make Butter Too!
Friends, I’d like to share this simple butter recipe that Mavi suggested (his school project). A few weeks ago, they were learning about the lives of the Irish people during 1916 and one of which is learning how to make this “the old school way”. This butter recipe is so easy to make, and surprisingly it ended up so delicious! Plus Vito even participated!
Milking a Cow for Toddlers
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
I never knew that this could be fun! My Vito enjoyed this activity so much that we did this a couple of times during the day. Even big brother Mavi joined in the fun as well, trying to outshine each other on whoever gets to finish milking first.
Farm Animals Sort & Play
Monday, May 16, 2016
When I was planning for a Farm Unit, I wanted it to be simple because it’ll be the week of our arrival from our trip. This means, we are all tired (especially me!), and I need time to do all the unpacking. So my aim is still to provide activities to Vito with less preparation.
Now, I made these playdough last month and yes, they’re still good! The main objective of this play is to sort out the animal figures from Safari Toob and Shleich according to their “habitat”.
Teeth Activity for Toddlers! (29 Months Old)
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Homemade Face Puzzle for Toddlers
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Vito is 29 months old.
So I was brainstorming the other way of what else could we do for our Body Unit and Mavi suggested that I should give Vito do a puzzle work. But he worked with our favourite body puzzle already and Mavi said, what about creating Vito’s face? And it hit me! Why not print a picture of Vito and turn it into a puzzle! This way he’ll be familiar of the order of his face from top to bottom, right?
Internal Organs Sensorial Tub and Matching Activity
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Vito is 29 months old.
This is one of the highlights of our Body Unit! I was more than excited to give this to Vito! Just look at his face on how much he’s enjoying this activity!
Human Body Letter Match Activity
Monday, May 2, 2016
Beleduc Boy Body Puzzle
Saturday, April 30, 2016
One of my best finds this year is this absolutely amazing learning material from Beleduc. Just like Grimm and Shleich, Beleduc is a German company that produces high quality wooden learning materials that are designed for kids of all ages. I absolutely love this puzzle because for Vito, he is just playing a game but little did he know that he is actually learning!
Our Homemade Shapes Materials
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Sometimes, the tools that Im looking for are not available on line or in stores so I made them myself. I used to have a lot of time for making our own materials but with Vito and the increase of responsibilities at home, I can barely print my activities. So my aim these days is to make materials that are simple and easy to assemble. Here are the materials that are easy to make even without the use of a printer!
Creating Shapes with Geomag
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Shapes Resist Painting
Monday, April 25, 2016
Learning about Geometric Shapes
Sunday, April 24, 2016
To start our Shape Unit this week, I want to share with you Vito’s current favourite learning material! This amazing product is from Learning Resources and both of my boys has been using the activity sheets for days!
Earth and Land Unit for Toddlers
Friday, April 22, 2016
Learning through Arts & Crafts
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Fun Sifting Activity for Kids
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Vito is 28 months old.
We were reading the Under the Ground book and chancing upon the page of mining, I decided that we should play pretend to look for jewels in a tub of sand! As you can see, this activity was intended for sifting the gravels and later on discover the jewels but I realized that sand is quite big so our sifter wouldn’t work. Thus, I added the scooper from Learning Resources, it has bigger holes in it so it can sift the sand effectively.
Earth and Land Unit: Magnetic Earth Worms!
Monday, April 18, 2016
Vito is 29 months old. This activity was inspired by Simply Learning.
You can find lots of Earth worms under the ground! The main idea here is to search and collect all the Earth worms under the ground (oatmeal) using a magnetic wand. Fun activity for kids that both siblings can enjoy!
Earth and Land Theme: Earth Prints
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Vito is 29 months old.
Earth Day is coming! We’re having a week of Earth/Land Themed activities and I just have a lot of inspirations from here and can’t wait to try them! Yesterday we made Earth prints. I decided to this one first as its very easy to recreate and manageable when you’re doing it with two kids!
Bird Themed Activities for Toddlers
Friday, April 15, 2016
Here’s a recap of our week! You may copy any of these for your own home school journey!