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. ^_^

Treasure Basket – Brown Colour

Debo loves colour treasure basket and it really works in learning colours. Kids love to explore and through treasure basket can allows kids to understand and experience things in different materials, texture, colours, sounds and etc by having different theme or topics each time. This week colour theme was brown colour and items that we had:

Chopsticks

Blocks

Square block

Clothespin

Brown star

Box

Teddy bear

Brown ribbon

Basket

Tot School – Letter F for Foot

 

Tot School (17th June – 23rd June 2013) @ Debo 22 months
Alphabet:   F
Object:      Foot
Theme:      Body Parts
Colour:      Brown Colour

LETTER BOX
 
Lovely flowers and fishes which I bought in Fun n Cheer shop, but are little too big to put inside the letter box.

      

Letter box for the week: Flowers, Fishes, Footprint map, sandpaper letter, mini card for fish, frog, and fly, and lastly flamingo and fox which I bought it during the week.

WORDS LEARNING

This week we were learning few words that start with letter F: Flower, Frog, Fox, Fish, Foot, Fly. Debo still insist to call fish as “whale”(her whale bath toy)… but glad that she able to pronounce frog correctly ~


I stick the flash cards on the wall after showing Debo few times. English words for few days and then turning the other side of the flash cards for Chinese words.


Learn to write letter F, printable from here.

Draw on the letter F.

  Letter F book, printable from here.
    
Word spelling by using wooden letters. Debo able to match the letters correctly.


Learning parts of the body and face. I use the printout from internet, and add in Chinese words


Debo done pretty well in matching the cards after I read to her, she know the parts of the body but still not yet able to recognize the words.

 FLASH CARDS

We did some flash cards practices on body parts and taste of foods.

 
Since our theme for this week was Body Parts, I had made a feet and hand (printout online) for Debo to more understand her body part.


We also learning left and right by drawing Debo hands on the paper. She like it and always ask to draw her hands or even her feet on papers when she got a pen in her hand.

BIBLE STUDY
Bible study, just reading to Debo the verse and let her understand we should appreciate and cherish what had God gave us.

SONGS

We having fun in singing these body poems and songs, Debo likes singing ^_^. Printout from http://www.homeschoolshare.com

RIGHT BRAIN

Simple flower puzzle and six pieces puzzle. Debo started knowing the skills of playing it.
Spot the different. Seems a bit hard to keep Debo attention in playing this sort of game.

Sequence cards. We had play three story this week. We started by story telling, then spot the different.


Linking memory by using cards given by Debo’s grandma, lovely cards and Debo enjoy looking at these. Story can be wild fantasy, but I am not that good in giving too much of elaboration.. haha.
My story:

There is a cat who afraid of seeing doctor, and when he know the nurse is going to give him injection, he ran away and take airplane to hid himself. He hide in hills and wonderfully he meet his friend – little bird and asked to have painting together in the jungle.

Lovely story? ^_^

PRE WRITING
Pre writing practice. Showing good progress, at least she did good work for horizontal line..  
 
STAMPING

Bought a new stamping chop from a bookstore, with big round top easy for Debo to hold and chop. Debo is good in chopping,right? haha.. she asked for more, so I just turned the other side of the paper and asked her to chop on empty paper… haha.. lazy mum.. will get her more chopping or dot paint worksheets next time..  “if I remember ~~~”  :p  

Exercise

Is exercise time. Yes, Debo like to do exercise… well, I mean like to play.. haha, wondering is she a girl or boy. She done very well when I showed her the actions, especially kicking ball, her favourite, just she still not yet understand how to climb up as in the picture, but ya she always done that.. climbing up on table, chair, etc…. @_@

MEASURING

This was the first time in teaching Debo measuring. Since she still not yet know how to read the ruler, this was just a brief introduction on “the way” of measuring.. haha, Debo did enjoy it, pretending to measure everything around her, including my feet…



 CHINESE LEARNING


Learning the word 大(Big) and 小（Small), by using the measuring scoop. Debo able to read the word “大” after the lesson.. well, to her she want everything in BIG and MORE.

 

We also using Chinese flash card to match with the related picture. 

MUSIC

We playing music note D this week. Debo looked very serious and concentrated, moving all the cards and bell from floor to table, plus her egg toys and yoyo. Why she need the eggs and yoyo? haha… I have no idea as well ~_~….

COLOURING 

Flower Colouring worksheet.

PASTING ACTIVITY
 
Debo likes to play glue, pressing hard on it but not having much glue on the paper..

 ART & CRAFT


Debo ask for pen to draw on a recycle paper, so I just asked her to draw circle.. and here was the circleSSSSS she draw…messy art ..haha.. the best shape she knew for now was circle, so she was very proud and confidence in drawing it out on the paper.

 
Debo like to draw her hands and feet on paper, but using colour paint was her first time. She like it so much and asked for more for the next few days… haha. I used her footprint and make it as butterfly.

Alphabet craft, idea from Totallytots website. Capital F for Fox and small letter f for fish.

 
We had letter F for fox for our this week hand craft. As usual Debo press out all the parts and I put it together.

Collection of hand craft so far.. seems  the box is too small for all these letter craft, time to get more space for them. 

PLAY DOUGH
 
Since this week theme was body part, I print out a face printout from here, and used the dough to make face parts but sadly Debo didn’t appreciate my “HARD” works and roll up the dough to play… @_@

We played a lot of dough this week, both of us are enjoying very well… haha.. brought in the dough tools to make shapes and flowers.. I getting more interests in playing dough now..haha. We used dough to make letter F.

Used tools to make shapes and letters.

 
I make two roses.. nice? haha.. Mama also need to play … ^_^
FREE PLAY

After learning, I gave Debo the “teaching material – measuring scoop” to play in her little mini pool. Kids just love playing water ~~
Free play with the shapes cards… because Debo found or “took” herself from the drawer. Pretty good in matching the shapes, able to recognize most of the shapes and say “star, square, heart, oval”.
BOOKS
 
We had read these book this week:
Whose foot is it? (Learn animals’ footprint)
三字儿歌 - 好习惯 (Chinese songs learning good habits in taking care ourselves)
Key Words with Peter and Jane 1a (start learn to read.. good book for beginner)