Tot School: Letter A for Apple – Overview

Tot School week 1 (18th – 24th March 2013) @ Debo 19months
Alphabet : A for Apple
Theme: Fruits
This is our very first week of tot schooling, and seems still a lots need to be improved, still have many materials not yet completed.. ha… too tired in preparing…
Here are the activities we going to carry out in this week:


From top left: Moving alphabet a and apple, Numbers flash card, Fruits picture and words flash cards (Chinese & English), Malaysia Flag flash card, books
From bottom left: Worksheets, Fruits basket (Big and small fruits), Letter A box, Tot Tray which included Fruits puzzle, small colour magnets, ELC fruits match up card, Fruits match card in Chinese, Photographic memory cards, Letter A 3D craft card

White and blackboard bought from IKEA, offer price RM70plus for member and RM90++ for non member ( I only realised after paid … oo… I am not a member !!!) I had draw some letter A and an apple on it.. like it ~~
 
In the letter A box consist of Letter A sandpaper, many letter A that I cut from magazine,  an apple eraser that I bought from Daiso, some pictures that start with letter A included: Ant, Alligator, Acorn, Apron, and Apple.

Since this week theme is Fruits, I had prepare fruits basket with few fake fruits in it… Big fruits were contributed by granma and those small fruits were bought from Daiso and “contributed” from granpa… Other paper fruits were cut from magazine and supermarket catalogue.

Books: fruits, 小鲁的苹果圆 (storybook)， 奇妙的生物世界 - 蚂蚁 (Encyclopaedia book about Ant)
Only three books I able to find that related to this week theme, the two Chinese books were borrow from public library and Fruits book was bought in Popular during offer RM9.90 for 3 books. Baby Debo like the Ant book as she always like to see and speak “Ant…Ant…”. This book is very informative, very clear, interesting, I like it as well.

Apple Sensory Bin, more details can refer to this page…

Sensory Bin – A for Apple

As this is our first week of teaching, I had spend few weeks time in preparing the apple sensory bin.. like it !

Some fake apples with some letter A and an apple tree. The ground was fill by green bean..thought looking for green bean but never see any. Well, i guess yellow colour seem quite nice as well .
 
Those paper apples and letter A were cut from magazine and supermarket catalogue. I really like those paper apple because some really look nice and real, rather than the little apple eraser in the middle, which i bought from Daiso.



The apple tree.. the body was a craft tree that I bought it from Fun n Cheer in Seri Gombak. I added the green foam paper at the back to make it look like a big tree with leaves..adding some apples on the tree by using apple stickers where I found in at Super Save Shop in Miri.

Baby Debo like these very well, I mean the apples, she pull out the apple tree gave it to me and said :”Hmmmeh (Don’t want)” …. OOO…..




Patient is what she need to practice. After playing a while, this was the end of the sensory bin…. she up side down the bin and throw everything around …Grrrhhh…but she did help me to pick “FEW” up later before she ran away for her other toys … @_@

FREE SHIPPING @ Book Depository

 

Wow.. so excited to find a place to buy book with FREE SHIPPING… !!!

I had been looking around for some good books for my little princess, and hopefully that is some offers or discounts. I went to some bookstores,  big bookstores with many choices and offers but still can’t find the books I had looking for. Time and petrol wasted, even there had the books but priced high. So I search online and from a mama forum I found a online book store --- Book Depository.

 

This is a great way to buy book for people like me, staying far from big city. The Book Depository provide many choices mostly English books, with discounted rate plus FREE SHIPPING. After converting into Malaysia Ringgit, it was even CHEAPER than purchasing in local bookstores!!!!! I don’t need to drive long way to the big book stores, using half of the day searching the books I want and hopping it having some discounts ~~ Wow… Just sit nicely at home, drinking tea while browsing the website, click click click… that’s all… books will be send directly to my house. Simple and easy.

 

But one point to mention here: You will need to wait for weeks & above to receive your orders. I had purchased a Kumon Colouring book.. just one…for try ^_^ … will share here once I go my order ~