Mavi loves this activity! We’ve just finished Chapter 3: The First Writing of SOTW and we’ve been doing this “decode the message” activity game the whole day. Hopefully this will lead us to decode binary numbers and ASCII in the days to come LOL.
Picture below shows my son attempting to make his own code as well. Oh I can’t wait to make another one tomorrow for him to work on!
I am currently on vacation mode, so I am not keeping up with my planned schedule. It’s the midterm break for Mavi and I don’t want to put too much “home” school activities for him as well. So we’re taking each day slowly, whip any activity I can think of if I feel it or if Mavi asks for it. But other than that, we spend our time outdoors, doing a Harry Potter marathon and catch up on my workout as well.
As I mentioned, we’re doing random activities as of the moment. And that’s what we did last week. We have a few empty water bottles and we made use of it by making a shape of a tornado!
Objective: This is to demonstrate the shape of a tornado.
Materials:
Procedure:
Fill one bottle with half full water. Place the second bottle upside down on top of the half filled bottled water. Secure them with a duct tape. Turn the bottle upside down so that the bottle with water is on top (make sure to stand the bottle on the table. Hold the lower bottle with one hand and using the other hand, quickly move the upper bottle in a circular motion counter-clockwise. Stand the bottles upright with the empty bottle remaining on top.
The picture below is quite blurry, but I just want to you see the wonder on my son’s face. Precious!
Results: The water in the upper bottle swirls in the counterclockwise direction and this forms a shape that looks like a funnel as the water pours into the other bottle. This funnel shaped formation is the same shape as the vortex formed by a tornado.
Vocabulary:
Mavi enjoyed this activity! We kept the water bottles for days and he keeps on doing those “shaky” things to make the tornado.
For best result, it is recommended to use a washer in between the bottle’s mouth piece.
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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!
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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