The first thing comes to my mind when talking about cold weather is “ICE”. Malaysia do not have winter, so definitely we won’t able to see snow in our own country. To let Debo feel the cold weather is to make her an “Ice World”. Alright, I only manage to make a SMALL ice world for her.
We do not have polar bear nor penguin, so I tried to put all the sea animals which lives in cold weather into the ice bin. I had make a lot of ices in different shapes and add in blue food colouring to make it look like sea.
Debo add in her whale and penguin bath toy into the bin.
Debo had lots of fun playing with the animals toys and we played until all the ices melted.
This was our tools sensory bin, including Debo’s tools toys, some stationeries like scissor, double cellophane tape, white board eraser pipe cleaner and a cloth ruler. I also did some paper tools: a spanner and saw, printed out from internet.
Debo enjoying her tools sensory bin, taking out all the tools and knocking here and there acting like a craftsman.
We also played match the tools game. A fun and easy made game with little one. Just choose few of the tools, draw its outline on a piece of paper, and ask the kids to match the outline with the correct tools. Debo is good in matching shadow game, so this was easy for her too.
A simple sensory bin but gave lots of funs to Debo.
I really like this farm animals sensory bin. I bought some packs of animals toys from a toy shops, adding in some I had founded at home. I did not use a tray or basket to set up this, instead I just putting all these on the table, look much more “real”, right?
The background was a barn picture inside the animals toys I bought. I had divided it into three parts: Barn, grass field and lake. You can refer to my last post on how to make the farm barn. I bought the grass field from a shop at the fake flowers division. I had use this grass field in my another sensory bin too – Outdoor Game sensory bin.
I just cut out a “similar” lake shape from blue foam paper. Adding in some rocks and ducks to make it nicer. Since the goose is standing, so I just putted it at the side of the lake. Look at the little pig at the right side, looking at the ducks.. is it looks cute ^_^ ..
This goat is looking at the grass, planning to eat it ~
Chicken on the fence
Mr Cow is going back into the barn.
There are a chicken and a bird standing on the roof of the barn.
Was Debo like the barn sensory bin? After she saw it, first felt excited, second…. put all those animals into the barn (or box)…
Tidy up and closed it nicely… leaving the grass on the table.
Lastly… this was how the sensory bin looked like after Debo saw it. Was she not happy with the animals or she is a good cleaner? But I do enjoying setting up these farm animals ^_^
Another interesting sensory bin --- Birds for Letter D for Duck. I divided it into two parts, grass and sand with pond. Duck is under bird category, but not all birds can fly and swim. So, I purposely separated the swam and ducks (which can swim) from chickens and bird.
What I can find for the sensory bin was: two chickens, bird, swam and ducks. I used the fake grass as the base for the chickens and brown mahjong paper as sand. I used blue foam paper as the pond and made some lotus leafs on top of it. Other materials like trees, rocks, wood, etc were from the Farm toys set.
Two ducky swimming in the pond, and little swam would like to join them too… ^_^
I tried to let Baby Debo understand not all birds can swim, but she still insisted to put everything including tchicken and rocks on the pond…. stubborn !!!! I guess she like swimming ~_~
What I can find for this week sensory bin was two doggie, two rabbits, a cat and bird. Thought to make some sawdust as the base for the sensory bin but unable to find any, so just use a fine linen as the base. A basket was used as bird nest and toilet paper roll as house for the two little rabbit and a fabric basket with ribbon inside as cat’s bed. As I saw the sensory bin was a bit sparse, so I put in the pink flower inside the bin…look nice hor??
I had DIY a doggie house, using a box and felt paper as the roof. I named the doggie house as BEN because I remember there is a nursery song name “My Dog Ben”.. I like the house’s name board, it was a bone shape… using the foam paper to make it…
Tot School Week 2 (25th – 31st March 2013) @ Debo 19 months Alphabet: B for Ball Theme: Outdoor Game
LETTER BOX The box seems a bit small…hmm.. ok, what we had in the letter box: Sandpaper and alphabets blocks for letter B, basket, bird, balloon, small bottle, banana,bear, butterfly, box, and some paper cut that were related with B. What I like most in the box is the fake bird, sponsored by grandpa.. but Baby Debo keep on pulling the bird feather at its tail.. Oh My ~~ I asked Baby Debo to pick out what she can find in the letter box and we put it on the blanket for naming it one by one. She able to tell the word of “Bear” and “Bird”, and recognise banana and butterfly. What attracted her most was the little bottle with some sand inside, because the bottle has a ring on it and make sounds when she carried it around. This was how the blackboard looked like after just a short while Baby Debo saw it. I think I should keep the chalk away instead of putting under the blackboard @_@
WORDS LEARNING Theses clipart will be used later on for photographic memory. Since already printed and laminated, so I just used it for Debo to learn the words… have to fully utilized all the materials we have!!. I stick it on the A4 Whiteboard paper that I bought it at Daiso and wrote the words on it. This whiteboard looks convenience and indeed it is easy to carry around, just that when I wrote words on it by using whiteboard marker, the ink scatter and get blur. Resource: Moving Alphabet from Montessori Materials; Clipart from Homeschool Creation Spelling the objects and clipart with moving alphabets. Objects we used here were: Belt, Ball, Bird, Bear, Butterfly, Boat, and Box.
MATCHING CARDS ELC Matching Cards with cards that start with letter B: Basket, Ball, Banana, Butterfly, Bed, Bear. How was she do with these? I can say that these ELC Cards do attract her interests and she able to recognise most of the cards after being taught for just once or twice… brilliant to ELC or my dear little one? Baby Debo will point to the cards that I named for, and able to call for picture with Ball and Bear, but still unable to use her fingers to put the words and picture together, more practises needed in finger grasp. These were the Chinese flash cards (the big one) and matching cards (those small cards) that ball categorise. Flash the cards to Baby Debo in Chinese and English for few times before playing the matching cards, but sadly to say she don't really like to play these… asked to keep all these cards away @_@….
RIGHT BRAIN EXERCISE Photographic Memory game..having some improvement in playing it. She started to understand how to play this game, just not quite accurate… location not too precisely but been having once all the clipart position was correct just right and left clipart were inverted.. I am wondering whether she having inverted brain too ..haha
We also doing Linking Memory Exercise, by using power point slide, resource from Figur8.net. There are few different sort of clipart in a power point slide, and I had showed her few on the first day with a story linking the clipart from one to another. The next few days repeating the same story and also adding in another new clipart into the story. Pretty good right brain exercise, and Baby Debo seems quite interested to my story…. The story may not need to be logical, but creative and imagination are required.
GEOGRAPHY This was the very first geography lesson for Baby Debo and for a brief introduction on world map, we started with Seven Continents. I had searched for continents songs online for quite some times and the most satisfy me are these two songs which can be found in Youtube. I had also printed out and laminated an A4 Size Continental map and continents nomenclatures cards, showing these to her while singing the continents songs. She like it and every time I sing the song, she will go and point to the continental map that I had stacked on the wall.. I do think that she know which one is Africa.. (hopefully is not my misunderstanding … ) Seven Continents Songs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP0YyyzY4Yg(More prefer on this) The Continents Songs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf—PQNDn7g
PLAY DOUGH The worksheet was from 1plus1plus1equals1 website . Baby Debo not having much interests in playing dough and just able to keep her a while before she run away for others toys…Have to add in some more interested ideas in dough playing.
PHYSICAL PRACTISE Logarithm wooden toy bought at Fun n Cheer shop. Baby Debo still unable to match the numbers with the dots, so we just simply use this to do fingers grasp exercise by putting the sticks and rings into the hole, and she just love to do so~ Geometrical Shape Building Blocks, another wooden toy from Fun n Cheer shop. There are there boards in a box and this showing in photo is the simplest one – Level one. This is to help Baby Debo in fingers grasp practise and shapes learning. She doing it pretty good, able to put the blocks onto the board correctly and called out “STAR” when putting the star block on to the board. She request to play this again.. transferring the pom poms into the box.
STICKERS
This week we having smile face stickers for Baby Debo to practice peeling stickers by using her tiny fingers. She was quite satisfy her works and requested me to stick it on the wall…I do like it too ~
HANDCRAFT Handcraft again!! Baby Debo was helping to “push” out all the pieces…had to really “LOOK” at her in doing it and remind her to push it softly, before she tear off the parts that we needed. Final works… B for Butterfly… Nice ~
ART WORKS Resource: Worksheet from 1plus1plus1equals1 Colouring using Crayola Washable Markers, and since this week colour was green so I just gave her the green marker pen (Definitely cannot give more to her…for this very early stage… as she will hold one for each hand and make everything messy….). I do like this, comparing with other, haha… at least it looked like she intended to do colouring….Funny was, she keep saying “Oh..Oh..Oh..” when she had painted out of the Ball picture, seems like she knew she should colour inside the ball.... Resource: Totally Tot website Capital letter B for Bee while small letter for butterfly. What we need: Foam Paper (Black, Yellow, Orange colour), white felt paper, googly eye, transparency sheet and pipe cleaner Baby Debo helping to glue and I asked her to draw straight line at the Bee’s body..well, she did a good job on it, of course with some guidance from her Mama… haha ~ Painting time.. This was Baby Debo first time using Finger paint. I had prepare the sponge letter A &B, Crayola finger paint, a drawing paper, paper plate and a cloth which is a bib I bought at IKEA. Of course the first thing was to put the bib on her in case she make her cloth dirty..sadly to say she insisted not putting it on. I try to make her get used to the paint since this was her first time doing painting, so I hold her palm with paint and press on the drawing paper. After that she started to do her own, but just using one tiny finger to draw on the paper… funny.
Baby Debo’s first drawing. Since she was sitting inside the little pool, I put in some water after she finished painting and ask her to do exercise in pouring water, which she likes to do it during her meal (pouring her drink and meal from one bowl to another….). This can really keep her for a long time so I can do my housework without any disturbance… of course she was under guard by her Papa… ^_^
CARE of ENVI RONMENT Baby Debo voluntary helping Mama to sweep the floor… not very helpful but good to let her practise to do housework since young. She also “helped” to clean up the dishes (her cooking plate & bowl toy) after she cooked (after she played) and brought to the kitchen asked me to wash the dishes (her cooking toy) for her as well…@_@ … Well, at least she is having good attitude in cleaning up the environment..
ABC EXERCISE We were doing letter B exercise for this week.. Balance with one feet. Honestly I am not good in exercise, so really have no idea on how to inspire Baby Debo interests in doing it… As a result, she refuse to do it and ran away…. (~_~)~~ …. ABC Exercise idea is from Homeschoolshare website.
BOOKS These were some books that I found for this week title.. letter B. She like the Eric Carle book and keep asking me to read for her. I bought this Baby Bear book from BookExcess shop located in Amcorp Mall, Petaling Jaya. This bookshop selling lots of books at low price, but the location is a bit far and usually traffic jam.. however, I do will go there again when I going to KL again..so Papa, please keep the location map in your hand phone ya….hehe !!
FREE PLAY Baby Debo is crazy with pen or pencil, and when she see any, she will become so energetic and keep asking for it. What was she trying to write or draw, I really had no idea but I guess this is what people said Abstract drawing.. (^_^)…. Since this week theme was outdoor game, so we brought Baby Debo to a park – Miri Public Park (Taman Awam). I believe this is the most fun park in Miri for children..why? Because inside the park is large and most important is the playground.. both dry and water playground!! Too bad I didn’t take any photo in the water playground, baby Debo not playing there too. This park is really fun and really suitable for family especially those with children. She not so excited in playing but just keep walking around and around and around the playground… oh my.. so i just had to follow her to go around and around and around the playground. I guess she still not familiar how to play with the slide and she just follow the big sister walking up to the slide instead of sliding downward..
