Bear is 25 months
Language:
Numbers:
And of course, there was art and practical life skills. Tuesday was independence day here in Costa Rica. We went to a parade and Bear really enjoyed that.
To see what others are doing see here.
Language:
- Name recognition puzzles - Carisa at 1+1+1=1 uses water bottle lids. I made mine with cardstock letter tiles printed from my computer.
- Pre-writing activity of drawing lines and circles in a salt tray - you could use flour, cornmeal, or sand. I used an old toaster oven tray.
- Part-to-whole puzzle
- Upper case and lower case matching game using bee stickers on a laminated page of honeycombs (pictured below - bottom left hand corner - click on picture to enlarge)
- reading
- story-telling
- making up rhymes and singing songs and nursery rhymes during "circle time"
Numbers:- Counting everything in site!
- Playing the Cheerios game
- icecream scoop pattern activity from Making Learning Fun
- We made a volcano with plasticene and a tall baby food jar. Bear poured a bit of warm water in the bottom of the jar then added some baking soda. Then I poured some vinegar over it. We didn't measure anything. Bear really enjoyed watching it fizzle. We read a little printable book about volcanoes that I found at the Crayola site.
- We observed our bean seeds grow and watered them.
- Bear threaded little bells onto a pipe cleaner and made a baby jingle bracelet for her baby brother.
- Making necklaces with her wooden beads.
- Stickers
- Painting at her easel (also a gross motor skill activity)
- using her new button frame
- tong transfer (mostly of pompoms)
And of course, there was art and practical life skills. Tuesday was independence day here in Costa Rica. We went to a parade and Bear really enjoyed that.
To see what others are doing see here.
Looks like you guys had a great week! How do you handle the letters and reading/writing stuff with the different languages? It looks like you are focusing on English first. I have taught D his letters in Spanish first. My plan is to teach him to read and write in Spanish first and then focus on English. (He mostly know the letters in English also from the Leap Frog movie my mother gave him but I only call the letters by their Spanish name when we talk about them.)
ReplyDeleteYou guys did alot this past week! I like the pipe cleaner/bells for her little brother, and your cool volcano idea too!
ReplyDeleteThis is a pretty busy week. Bear is really advanced for such a young children to be able to do all of those things, and you clearly manage to make it fun.
ReplyDeleteI like the bees and honeycomb activity, as well as the volcano (have to try this soon!). Looks like you had another great week!
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