Tot School – Letter G for Goat

 

Tot School (1st July – 09th July 2013) @ Debo 23 months
Alphabet:   G
Object:      Goat
Theme:      Farm
Colour:      Brown Colour

Letter Box

 

   

Objects we had in our letter box:

Grape, Gorilla, Giraffe, Goose, and Goat.

Since we had flash cards, so I just pasted these on the walls as collages.

Mini Chinese flash cards on letter G objects. Learning English and Chinese at the same time… haha.

 

Letter G mini book, helping kids to learn the letter’s objects clearly. This can be found from here.

   HANDCRAFT

 

Letter G for GOAT. Debo helping me to press out all the parts and I putting it together.

SPELLING

Done some spelling exercises.

 

We played matching the same after done spelling. Debo done it nicely. Well, actually she done this without my direction.

 WORKSHEETS

 

 

 ART WORKS

 

Ideas from Totallytots. Capital G for Goat and small G for Goose.

MUSIC

This week, we were learning music note of E (Mi). Please let me know whether there is any error, because I am totally zero in music area. Just try my best to teach some basic knowledge about music area.

With some aid from tablet – keyboard apps.

SCIENCE

Learning animals tracks.

 

Learning sounds of animals.

 

Animals families name.

  

Studying the anatomy of Goat. I used the goat toy to show Debo the body part of the goat while studying with the printout.

PUZZLE

We played grape and farmyard puzzles. I bought the My Farmyard floor puzzle during Popular bookstore offer, RM9.90 member price.

COLORING

 

Kumon Let’s Color again. 

Also doing this lovely printable from internet -- G is for Goat. Debo very satisfied with her work.

GEOGRAPHY 

 

Still doing the seven continents, seems been learning the same things again and again… am I too lazy….haha. Debo able to identify Africa and Asia, five more continents to go.

RIGHT BRAIN & FINE MOTOR SKILLS

  

Debo still trying to use the scissor but need people helping to hold the paper straight in order for her to cut it on. I guess this “baby scissor” is not easy to cut a paper, will try to look for another type of “toddler scissor” for her.

Another fine motor skill activity.

 MATHEMATIC

Our first number box. This week we started learning number one… ya, Debo can red few numbers now, but I think we should do some practises from the very begining … since we have these materials …haha ya, because I love letter & number boxes. ^_^

Learning the concepts of Big and Small by arranging the scoops from small to big, adding in Chinese flash cards too. Debo understand the concept of big and small, but she was more interested in stacking up the scoops.

Matching shapes with these lovely printout from here. Debo done it very well and able to call out: square, oval and star.

FREE PLAY

She loves this set of puzzle but she still unable to recognize the words yet. After I read the words to her, Debo able to identify the pictures and matched it herself.

Reading mini animals books and playing stacking up blocks.

 EXERCISE

Found an old textbook and is really fun for kids to learn exercise, at least Debo likes it and follows the pictures.

 

Letter G for grab. This week we were doing “GRAB the stars”, by pasting some stars on the door or wall and asked the kids to grab it by jumping. My little clever princess “complained” that the stars were too high for her and “REQUEST” me to get for her…

BOOKS

Books we had for these weeks. Debo likes the GORILLA very much and also her favourite Violin book.

Science – Five Sense

This week, along with the body part theme, we were going to learn about five sense: Hearing, Touching, Smelling, Seeing and Tasting.

HEARING

 

For hearing, I had prepared three types of materials putting into six same size of bottles. I tried to look for the materials that were different in size.. something that had huge different in size. Finally what I used were: Rice, Red Bean, and Egg (toys egg.. of course ~).  Each two bottles will be having the same materials inside, and required Debo to find out which two bottles having the same materials by shaking it.

 SEEING

 

Well, this was some sort of “I Spy” game. This was to train Debo the sense of seeing and observation skills. I choose to fill up the bottle with rice as it was easily get and easier see what inside the bottle. She was pretty interested in playing this and able to call out most of the items in the bottle. The items that I prepared were: moon, star, heart shape, chicken, egg, duck, corn, tomato, apple, banana, and tree.

After the I spy game, now was Debo favourite activities --- pulling out the rice and scooping it from one to another bottle. Well, can treat it as fine motor skill activity too.

Before the situation lost control, I had quickly got the rice back and required Debo to play only the toys inside the bottle.

 TOUCHING

For touching, I had prepared things that are made by different types of texture, so that she could experience feeling of: soft, hard, smooth, crude, light and heavy. Items we had: Cardboard, sandpaper, block, sponge, smooth & crude handkerchiefs, thread made bookmark, mahjong paper, green felt paper, and hard board.

 

Debo took out everything from the basket one by one, pressing, touching, knocking… finally, she took the handkerchief and wipe the basket. A good cleaner we have in our family … ~

  SMELLING

For the sense of smelling, I had prepared six bottles with some cotton inside bottles in order to “store” the smell longer. Each two bottles having the same ingredient inside: Lemon, Rosemary leaves, and just cotton with some water to show none flavour smell. I tried to let Debo guess which two bottles having the same smell and she quite interested in guessing it too.

 TASTING 

While learning sense of taste, I thought to have Debo learn the Chinese words of different types of taste.

Ingredients we had for the tasting were: Lemon (SOUR), Honey (SWEET), Salt (SALTY), Coffee (BITTERNESS). No tasting for the SPICY, but I did put a little chilli at the side just for showing the taste of spice. After all, she did tried spicy food before, when she insisted to “have” my Curry Noodles.. so she was pretty clever in identify what foods are spicy and not going to “INSIST” for it now.

Pretty funny.. She likes the honey and non stopping eating it.

Finally after showing everything, we had some cups of lemon honey juice as our tea time. ^_^