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Letter E: Parts of the Body Unit Activities

Sunday, September 20, 2015

Last week, I put up a body parts unit study for Vito with emphasis on the letter E. I’d like to share some of the materials and activities I prepared for him, of which he truly enjoyed.

1. Recognition of body parts.

Vito knows most of his body parts so I introduced our Body Parts Cards to him for abstract presentation. The cards were used for identification, but in different ways.

I would show the card and ask “what’s this?” Vito would answer and at the same time point to that part of his body.
I used the doll for identification (3rd person) like “where is the dolly’s hair?”
I could see him at times looking at the cards and imitate the picture. So cute!

We are using my The Parts of the Body cards which you can get from here.

2. Letter E objects

I’ve got three objects for our letter e: eye, elephant and egg. I so love this method! To expand the child’s vocabulary, learn phonics and letters all at the same time!

Vito always goes to this tray and would give me the object and say its name. As for letter e, I love that he can remember the sound of ‘e’ whenever he encounters this in books! How amazing!

3. Writing using our Egg shaped crayons

We are using Crayola here.

4. Tracing the body

Oh yes, this was fun! Mavi participated as well!

5. Letter E for egg

So he worked on peeling the eggshells…

and devoured the egg!

And we later on used the eggshell in our letter E craft.

6. Making a face

I cut out some different shapes, used a yarn for the hair and paper plate for the head and we have this cute face! Vito was happy enough to wipe out all the glue as well.

7. Body Parts Puzzle

Yes, if there’s one time that a little toddler can do with body parts is to start using a simple dress-up bear puzzle, with head, body and legs portion and being emphasized. He couldn’t fit perfectly the pieces yet but he knows exactly where to put the head, limb and legs. We’ll do more of this!

And that’s about our activities for learning the body parts. Don’t forget to pin this for later!

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Animals Around the World and {Learn & Play Link Up}

Friday, September 18, 2015

Mavi still couldn’t get enough of his animal collections. After putting Vito to sleep, I saw this in the carpet laid out, sorting his animal collections according to the continent in which they thrive. The continent puzzle is from Tower High Learning and the animals are combinations of Schleich and Safari Toobs.

He also managed to use our Animal Fact cards. Oh we love these cards! It indicates in what habitat these animals belong.

Aside from sorting, I would see him tell stories of these animals, each one has a role and portraying a character. Quite cute and funny too!

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Pirate Tot School from Every Star Is Different

Montessori Inspired Frog Activities from Mama’s Happy Hive

Lion King Unit Study from Study At Home Mama

Dinosaur Ice Melt Science Experiment from Living Montessori Now

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Montessori Decimal System (Base 10) with Golden Beads

Thursday, September 17, 2015

It's the time of our 12 Month of Montessori Series, and today I'm sharing with you how Mavi learned the concept of the decimal system and base 10 using the Montessori golden beads materials. We worked on this when he was about 4yrs old and at times he still wanted to do the complete layout (see the bottom of the post for this). The aim of studying the decimal system is for the child to understand, organize and classify the numerical quantities into different hierarchies of units, tens, hundreds and thousands.

One of the best thing about these golden beads material is that it provides a sensorial approach in learning mathematics. In using the golden beads, a child can easily differentiate a unit from tens, from hundreds and thousands through its depth, weight and quantity. In effect, there is retention to the concepts because the child can easily visualize the quantity of numbers.

So without further ado, here’s Mavi’s presentation of how we use the golden beads in learning the decimal system.
Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands

Here’s a short presentation which Mavi and I created on how to use the materials in introducing units, tens, hundreds and thousands.

The Layout

Now for the overall view of the decimal system, combining the number symbols and the quantity, here’s Mavi working on the decimal system layout. Sorry if he only worked till 4000, as we do not have enough thousand cubes Sad smile

Enjoy!

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Zoo Animal Tracks

Saturday, September 12, 2015

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If you are looking for a simple activity that will keep your kids hooked for a longer period of time, this is one I highly recommend. Recently I bought a few Schleich animals from a local store because it was on sale. Since Vito looooves animals, I whipped this activity in an instance, just in time to make use of our white PlayDoh.

Materials needed: different animal figures with detailed tracks (I highly recommend Schleich) and playdough (PlayDoh).

One by one, create tracks of your animals in the dough. Vito was fascinated of the tracks! He wanted to do it by himself Open-mouthed smile

Here’s a closer look of the tracks. How cool is it that they’re all so detailed!

Can you identify which animals they belong to?

Yay! We didn’t have enough dough though. But Vito played with this for a long time! We’ll definitely do this more often.

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Collection of Farm Animal Activities for Toddlers (22 Months)

Friday, September 11, 2015

Last week Vito had a great time learning about farm animals. I find it quite fascinating how my kids can easily learn a concept just by using animal figures. It took me years to convince myself to invest in these animal toy figures. We didn’t have them till Mavi was 3 years old. Vito is lucky enough to be able to play with these at a very young age. So from reading books and making sounds, I leveled up the learning approach to widen his vocabulary, learn phonic sounds, practise logic and more.

Here are Vito’s TOP 6 farm animal activities:

Simple Rooster Craft and {Learn & Play Play Link Up}

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Vito and I are doing lots of new things since September started and one of which is trying out some simple crafts for motor skills development and sensory play.

Since we’re having farm animals this week… we made a colorful-feathered rooster. We call this in the Phils “sarimanok”, a mythical legendary creature that symbolizes the closeness to the spiritual being of the native people.

Materials are pretty simple:

colored craft feathers
glue
a coloring page of a rooster
corn kernels (optional)

Let your little one apply glue to the picture. I suggest this kind of glue, with bigger mouthpiece so it will be easy for them to squeeze out the glue.

Don’t restrict, just allow them apply the glue anywhere they want (as long as it is within the tray). This large tray is from Ikea. Did you know that by using the glue, they learn the concept of cause and effect? Squeezing it results to glue coming out. My son loves watching the glue drops from the mouthpiece!

And Vito loves opening and closing the the container. Open-mouthed smile

Place the feather into the image.

Put corn kernels on it as well if its available.

My Vito often stops and observes his hand for stains, dirt or anything that sticks on it.

And here it is.. my Vito’s first craft ever! We admired his work afterwards, and he even showed it to Mavi and the Dad. Love that he is showing a sense of accomplishment at a young age.

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Here are the featured activities for this week!

Pinocchio Books That Were Turned Into Movie from My Bright Firefly

Shelves for 18 Months from Everyday Begins New

Pumpkin Playdough Provocation from Mama’s Happy Hive

Fall Apple Tree Craft from A Little Pinch of Perfect

I’d love to try any of these activities for my youngest this season!