Writing Christmas cards to family and friends!
Mavi has to prepare at least 10 cards, so we’re doing 2 cards a day and he loves it! He uses different coloured pens, and would add glitters and stickers too!
Have fun!
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Monday, December 1, 2014
Helping Mommy putting up the Christmas Tree.
Happy first day of December!
Beginning Homeschooling for Toddlers 01
Friday, November 28, 2014
Vito is 12.5months old.
This is Vito’s first adventure in Tot School. This is my way of journalising his wonder years, capturing his “firsts” and discoveries in the same way that I have documented Mavi’s preschool years.
These are the books we’re reading so far for the month of November.
We started our pincer grasp activities a few weeks ago and you can read about it here or by clicking the picture below. In the picture, Vito is inserting Galt Toys Inc. Fun Buttons through a slot that I've cut from an old plastic container.
As you can see, we’re using as much ‘red’ in our activities. This is because were are exploring the colour RED as of the moment. I gathered toys like red LEGO Duplo blocks, shakers, red wooden stacking ring, blocks, pompoms and red bug counters and placed them in a basket. The card you are seeing is a homemade colour card.
Best way to explore the RED colour is by finger painting. In this case, we used the Giotto Bebe finger-paint, the line of paints for kids that I truly adore. They are 100% odourless, nontoxic, washable and has this creamy texture (not watery!). If this brand is not available you can also get Crayola Washable Finger Paints from Amazon US.
Vito loves holding paintbrushes, so instead of giving him crayons to scribble I gave him paints for him to try with his paintbrush. Vito loves the creamy texture and the vivid colour is so good in the eye!
I previously made these homemade shakers. They’re plastic travel bottles, with beads and pastas in them. We shake them to produce sounds, and at times I would sing children’s songs with the shakers.
The weather has been so glorious lately. So I took a few leaves and brought them home so Vito can play with them. He loves holding the petiole and waving the leaf like a flag.
Here’s Vito exploring Mavi’s school grounds. He loves it there!
Well, that’s it for now! Hope you enjoy the post. Till the next one!
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Pincer Grasp Activities for Tot Schoolers
Monday, November 24, 2014
I am working on a list of fine motor skills that Vito has to practise on. First on the list is the pincer grasp.
Vito recently turned 1 and I’m starting to introduce him to a routine of activities which include developing of fine motor activities, language (reading books and baby signs), nature exploration and more.
Now, this post is all about his love of dropping cereals and GeoMags in a container. One of the most important fine motor skills that child should develop early on in life is their PINCER GRASP (picking up small objects using index finger and thumb). This is a basic skill needed to be able to hold a pen, feed themselves, using scissors, manipulating small objects and more.
It started with the cereals (he eats this every morning) and I gave him an empty water bottle and demonstrated how to drop that cereal in the hole. He was taken right away. He started mimicking my actions. A few tries, he failed. But I find it so amazing for this little fellow to try and try and finally succeed!
So cute, how he opens his mouth as he attempts to drop the cereal. As you can see, I am holding the bottle at first.
He grabbed it from me and attempts to hold the bottle in one hand and using his other hand to drop the cereal. I was amaze that he’s able to control the movement of his hands for their individual task! Right hand is in control of the bottle, making sure it doesn’t move so he can drop the cereal easily, and the left hand is in control of the cereal as he try to focus dropping it on that small bottle mouth. And I have to say, good hand and eye coordination practice as well!
See here, his hands switched roles! And he can do the job in either hands!
Oh and here, doing it again the next day :D
Wow! You can’t imagine how happy I am that he was able to do that! And he was so happy as well, and kept on clapping his hands for his major achievement. He’s hooked whenever he works on this activity.
Then a few days, I tried to challenge him by giving him GeoMags. Now this one is not as small as the cereals and they are of different shape. It’s tricky for him as he has to position the magnetic stick to a correct orientation so he can drop it.
Last material we used is the buttons (from Galt Fun Button). We these buttons! They’re big enough for little hands to hold. See in the pictures below how I need to position the tub in different orientation so he can drop it easily. He cannot do it yet with the tub standing upright.
I love that he pushed the buttons more!
More tot school activities in the next few days!
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