Days of the Week

Ever since i made this Day chart for N, he has been dilligently updating the board with or without my prompting. While my enthusiam for this is slowly dying, im proud to say N is still eagerly keeping this up.

When I ask him what day it was, he would intially refer to the chart but these days, he could answer me even without looking at the board. Last weekend, after church, i causually asked him what day it was. He remembered that he went to church to which he replied 'Sunday!'.

I've also added the chinese terms for each day of the week and went through with him. He has understood what 星期一 (monday) means and so on. He can even answer me in mandarin now whenever i ask him what day it was.

What's the time Mr wolf?

Now that N is older and recognises numbers, i thought i should teach him to tell the time. I deliberately highlighted the hands on each clock as well as the numeral that the short hand is pointing. I did this so that N can instantly see the difference between each clock. I also made word labels. I have not had the chance to teach N yet...will update how this goes.

Coloring & Pencil grip

N's chinese teacher said that his pencil grip still needs alot of practising (although i received a conflicting report from his main teacher) so she advised me to do alot more coloring with him at home. She said coloring activity is more to let the child practise his pencil grip not much of the coloring.

Well, N doesn't enjoy coloring and he used to draw a line or 2 on the paper and that was it. So i was unsure how to create an interest in him. Nonetheless, i whipped out his thomas coloring book one day and we had a blast, much to my surprise! I think N was really encouraged when i kept praising him and because of that he kept on scribbling. Im awfully glad to see more lines and color on the page! Well done!

Playdough fun!

How do we have lots of fun with our Playdough?

We use our egg puzzles to do letter stamping on playdough! I got this idea from Pre kinders.com which is an absolutely fabulous website!

We also made animal tracks on playdough. I might have gotten this idea from surfing the other Montessori blogs...and im sorry i really forgot who.

We pretended the animals were stuck and narrated parts from this book that we are reading now titled One Duck Stuck by repeating the catchy phrase 'Help help, who can help? We can We can!' N & i had loads of fun with this. It was very endearing to see N chanting away with me. :) N loves this book very much.

Again, from Pre kinders website, i had the idea of using the parts from Mr Potato Head toy and stuck it into our playdough. N was very amused!

But N's favourite of all was when we made tyre tracks using N's vehicle toys. Again, this idea was adapted from Pre kinders website. He was completely fascinated with the tyre tracks and was upset when i had to clear it away. Another day baby!