tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78206047959757938722023-11-16T03:07:18.306-08:00Play @ Homeshaminatasneemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766101790777598133noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820604795975793872.post-3002275994868949322014-04-20T01:33:00.004-07:002014-05-10T03:09:54.583-07:00Number writing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Assalamualaikum and Good day everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">its been ages since last post.. not because there is no activity but there is no time for the write up!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">This one I admit: I was lazy. And as usual when I am lazy, I get RG to do most of the work herself including the thinking. (hehe.. they say that's character building... XD)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, I just got her a piece of paper and a pen and asked her to write numbers. The objective of this activity is to make her recognize the ‘teens’. She can count (but not in its entire sequence) upto 100 out of memory but she hasn't matched the numbers with the words to recognize that 14 is actually fourteen, rather than a one and a four.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">So, you can see the output of the activity, we were doing great until 6, then she kinda forgot seven, which incidentally brought her mood down. After which things went downhill… eight became slanted, nine became mirror image (is this a problem? Not exactly.. read more about mirror images writing <a href="http://school.familyeducation.com/learning-disabilities/writing/42767.html">here</a>, <a href="http://www.babycenter.com/404_is-it-normal-that-my-kindergartner-reverses-letters-when-he_3652533.bc">here</a> and <a href="https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080915100414AAitqyj">here</a>!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Her 10 is okay… then I started to teach her 11. By this time, RG was already upset about her other numbers that she had forgotten so her motivation to continue added with her not knowing 11, 12, 13 and onward began to gnaw her..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">By the tie she got to 12 (which looks like IS) she wanted to stop.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">So that’s what I did. We stopped. Sometimes I have a feeling that she is afraid of letting me down (not performing enough to make me happy). I wonder how to instill that no matter what she does I am gonna love it anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shaminatasneemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766101790777598133noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820604795975793872.post-41139069529270761352014-04-15T00:44:00.000-07:002014-04-15T00:44:50.730-07:00Home made concert!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Its wonderful sometimes to see the imaginations of a child. All i saw was a bunch of diaper bags... but in the eyes of my RG, she saw a whole stage and an opportunity for concert!</div>
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the night before her debut performance she told all of us to be ready for the next night... she was going to hold a concert. i didnt realise what i was going too see..</div>
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the next day after i got back from work, she said 'ok everyone, after dinner i am going to do a concert'. and after patiently waiting for dinner to be over.. she set up her 'stage'... she put down a full diaper bag as the stage floor, stage backdrop and two half full bags as the side.</div>
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after giving a short intro RG gave us her rendition of 'the more we get together' rhyme... we also had a backup dancer.. GJ clad only in diapers suiting the theme so to speak..</div>
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a child's imagination.... it is exceedingly a beautiful thing!</div>
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shaminatasneemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766101790777598133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820604795975793872.post-86865449428892965692014-04-08T19:50:00.000-07:002014-04-08T19:50:21.824-07:00A Quick Acitivity: Garden!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Okay, this just continues from the paper collage.. RG wasn't satisfied with just one activity... she wanted to continue... i had to dig up the old paper stash of mine to find pre-cut garden coloured papers. it was just bits an pieces of paper pre-cut into flower, butterfly and dragonfly shapes.</div>
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i just guided her along to make this scene below:</div>
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After gluing, she added her own drawings... grass, bugs, butterflies and a a blue sky with green garden.</div>
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the end result looks like this:</div>
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shaminatasneemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766101790777598133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820604795975793872.post-22358657702192785452014-04-03T21:04:00.000-07:002014-04-03T21:04:03.356-07:00Punched Paper collage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Another collage activity but this time it took us 2 days to do this.</div>
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The first day, I just gave RG a paper puncher and a supermarket deal booklet for her to punch holes in. Boy did she have a field day or what! </div>
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I saved the punched pieces. They turned out real nice.. all colourful!</div>
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The next day we made a collage from it.... We drew a few hearts and then RG glued the little pieces according to her liking. She also drew some wheels and added some colours to other shapes using crayons.</div>
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She finished her collage with both the sun and the moon and her own name on it.. haha!!!</div>
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I was thinking of a good way to get RG started on learning the Pillars of Islam.. the whys and the whats can come in later, at this stage I just want her to know what the 5 pillars are.</div>
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This was done over a course of a week. and inshaaAllah.. I hope to keep reminding this to her every once in a while. The key to remembrance of knowledge is easily practice, that's why every one of the pillars of Islam is actually a ibaadah, the knowledge gained is put into practice on a daily, monthly, yearly etc basis. </div>
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But since she is still learning the practicing part, for now I just wanted her to remember what the pillars are. In order to do this, instead of just writing down and asking her to memorize this, I approached this i a step by step method.</div>
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<b>Step 1: Exposure</b></div>
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One night, I explained to her that everything in this life should have a strong base and pillar. (okay, she really had trouble understanding what a pillar is despite me even showing her.. so I am still figuring that part out)</div>
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I told her in Islam we also have 5 pillar that hold us strong to fight shaitaan. Allah loves it when we do this.</div>
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<li>Shahaadah - I told her Allah is one and Muhammad is our messenger (just asked her to remember that Allah is one!)</li>
<li>Prayers- no explanations needed </li>
<li>Fasting - little explanation since she had a basic idea what fasting was during Ramadan last year.</li>
<li>Zakah - this was tricky. I just told her that we need to share whatever we had with other people who needed it more (key word being: Sharing)</li>
<li>5. Hajj - this was hardest but I just told her it was a masjid that all Muslims go to pray at least once in a lifetime.</li>
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<tr><td>After 7 days</td><td>35% was remembered.</td></tr>
<tr><td>After 14 days</td><td>21% was remembered.</td></tr>
<tr><td>After 21 days</td><td>18% was remembered.</td></tr>
<tr><td>After 28 days</td><td>19% was remembered.</td></tr>
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Now to engage different parts of her mind and use different senses. Before this was audio coupled with visually associated learning (pillars). So I tried a different learning approach; kinesthetic learning - that is learning by touching, feeling and experiencing what one is trying to learn.</div>
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<li>Shahaadah - we just found a picture that signifies Allah is one</li>
<li>Prayers- Picture f people praying</li>
<li>Fasting - this one we just found a bunch of people eating and put a big X over it.</li>
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So I bought a plain wooden box holder (RM3.90, that's about 1.20 US Dollar) and set up the workspace for RG. The red flowers are just stickers and the plastic flowers salvaged from a hantaran (wedding gift).</div>
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but it turned out real wonderful and is sitting proudly at my desk at work!</div>
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this was an interesting activity to do. i did this at two different times. at first RG was asleep so i let GJ play. then when GJ was napping i let RG play.</div>
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the toy? i found this Kinetic Sand thing from a friend and got a small amount of it for the kids to play with (about 1 kg of it). the brand i got is <a href="http://wabafun.com/products.php/manufacturers_id/11">this</a>. but better explanations are given <a href="http://www.kineticsand.com.au/">here</a>. </div>
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Malaysians, you can get yours here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/RizqiRuse">RizqiRuse</a></div>
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what is kinetic sand? the company brands their item as 98% sand, 2%magic. but it is basically sand with some polymer additive that makes it 'wet' and kind of sticks to itself. is it mess free? personally i feel it is not. since the sand goes everywhere like sand does BUT having said that it is easy peasy to clean it up since it DOES stick to one another and not fly away everywhere.</div>
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i let GJ have a free reign on this. he was curious (in fact he a really curious baby!!!) at first, then moved in on touching the sand. his first reaction? he hated it... hahahahah it was really cute to see him brush of his hand and the disgusted look on his face!</div>
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after that his curiosity wasn't sated. it was a love-hate relationship.. he touched the sand briefly, then shook his hands free..</div>
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then he rubbed the sand between his fingers. (i forced his hand into it, simply to see his reaction.. he didn't like it). i took some sand in my palm and offered it to him... he touched it and slowly felt it from my palm..</div>
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i added some tools, now that.... he liked! he poked the sand with the tools. but most of all, he started to take the sand and throwing it everywhere!! after about 20 minutes, he still couldn't place the feeling of touching the sand.. he wants to play with it but when he touches it he throws the sand everywhere..</div>
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Now its time for RG to play with the sand. since she is a whole 3 years older, the structure of play was better. i gave her tools from the start so she started sculpting, digging, excavation and moulding the sand. the tools i used? all of them are just from her playthings; kitchen utensils, hardware tools (toy version of course), plastic containers etc.</div>
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I hid some small items in the sand for her to find. She also made simple sand sculptures. to her, it was like playing with a different kind of play-doh... and now she wants to go to the beach!</div>
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Same toy: different learning opportunity for both baby and a preschooler! and no, i am not going to try to let them play together with this yet. hahahahhahahah!<br />
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Okay, i didn't take many pictures for this activity. mainly because i was really tired and wanted to finish the activity quickly.. but then once we got into it it was kind of fun. the source for this material? it was just pre-cut coloured corrugated paper i found at a stationery shop near our place. </div>
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1. corrugated paper (pre-cut is faster but you can cut your own)</div>
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2. Six icecream sticks (wide ones)</div>
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Then we just rolled them up to make a butterfly, a penguin, a snowman, a ladybug, a heart and a round creature (RG's creativity)</div>
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Okay, this activity need little planning and the best part you can use any bits and scraps of paper. this was the first time RG did a collage. whats a collage?</div>
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Collage (From the French: coller, to glue,) is a technique of an art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. (from Wiki).</div>
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Well, todays' activity not fully collage but it was collage with a twist. since its her first time, i wasnt exactly focusing on a themed collage or a collage with a certain topic or educational outcome in mind, i was rather focusing on her fine motor skills. </div>
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but how important collages are in learning? You can read about it <a href="http://www.mommy-labs.com/creative-kids/art_craft_projects_kids/child-learning-connections-collage-diwali-art/">here</a>. but basically, young children can work with simple collage materials and beads to introduce numbers, positive and negative space, classification, and sequencing and pattern recognition. </div>
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Bits and Pieces of paper (we used printed paper just because thats what i had in hand)</div>
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First i had RG draw random shapes and lines. no right or wrong here.. anything goes!</div>
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Then i helped her cut out (using a sharp art knife) random holes according to the pattern RG drew.</div>
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Now comes paper cutting time.. RG just went crazy cutting pieces of paper... some of the print has hexagonal shapes so for some of the shapes she ahd a guideline that she had to follow. this activity is in line with preschool skill of learning how to cut.</div>
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then comes the gluing part. since the pieces were many after a while RG lost her interest. note to self: the next time i should be trying a theme based collage OR try not to cover every inch of the paper. but in this instance, every part of the page was covered. she also used stickers at the end.</div>
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this was just a simple drawing with crayon. i got RG a set of crayola for her birthday last week, so we used that set today... i gave them each a page from RG's art book and gave them the crayons. and just sat back and watched...</div>
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GJ pretty much got the idea that crayons go to paper... but in between he decided that he wanted to taste the crayons too... so he needed a bit of supervision... but other than that it was good fun.</div>
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shaminatasneemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766101790777598133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820604795975793872.post-65509253523469654622014-03-07T20:31:00.001-08:002014-03-07T20:31:53.707-08:00LEGO!<p dir="ltr">Okay.. the past few fays was horrendous with both GJ and RG being sick and the mommy too.. RG got worse and is currently in recovery mode..</p>
<p dir="ltr">Tried to get her to eat oats this morning and due to tiredness i broke parwnting rule no1: i bribed her... told her she can have a special surprise if she ate her oats porridge.. which she kind of did..</p>
<p dir="ltr">So what followed was RG building her lego aircraft.. with little guidance, she did it! And she is mighty proud of herself...</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thank god she has the love for lego just like mummy.. hahahaha... </p>
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i was just coming back from work and RG was a bit cranky. i wanted to do something quick and brainless (for me but not her! LOL)...</div>
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These are the stuff i gave her:</div>
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3. 8 pieces of butterfly wood buttons (that i picked up ages ago).</div>
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and i asked her what she wanted to do with it. hehehe sneaky of me isnt it? i dont have to think for her instead, i am making her think. but to my surprise, RG told me she wanted to make something called 'RG's art Glass' where she was gonna draw a glass (well, she didnt, she asked me to outline a large glass), then fill it with water and put the butterflies in the glass.</div>
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so thats what she did.</div>
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<p dir="ltr">While in the car going somewhere (school, grandma's etc) make a game out of phonics! Spot a word like tree.. say out loud 'tree!'</p>
<p dir="ltr">Then stress the phonetic sound of first letter.. 't.. t.. '(just the sound of the letter mind you)</p>
<p dir="ltr">And then ask her to guess what letter makes that sound..</p>
<p dir="ltr">RG said 'T!'</p>
<p dir="ltr">Then let your child choose the next word and you stress the sound of the first letter and make her guess it.. </p>
<p dir="ltr">We went on like this for 20 mins.. then she got tired.. this method is just re-inforcing what she learns in a fun way!! </p>
<p dir="ltr">For beginners, try using the leapfrog video alphabet sounds Letter Factory to begin with.. RG found it very engaging! Ill post the link in my fb page..</p>
<p dir="ltr">Or you can just you tube it!</p>
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Hello... RG got a new block puzzle set a few weeks ago. the set comes with a small booklet of of tangram puzzles you can make using the shapes, either a cat, flowers, rocketship etc.</div>
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After doing that for a better part of the day, later that night we used the pieces of the puzzle to learn simple math!</div>
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The first activity: Learn math through repeating patterns</div>
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1. first being simple repetition of colour (blue, pink, blue, pink)</div>
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3. then we upped the ante. i gave her both colour and shapes. ypu can see the figure below. The more complex the pattern, the more sophisticated the reasoning involved and in this case RG has to reason both the next colour that came in the sequence and which pattern of that colour. </div>
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its been a while since i had the time to publish anything due to work commitments (but i have been periodically documenting them on Facebook). so this week will be a lot of backlog posts being published amidst new ones we do in the meantime too.</div>
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1. Experimenting with new materials (first time for RG to use glitter)</div>
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1. Choose favorite theme: we chose sea world due to RG's favorite theme that week: shark. luckily we had a storybook at home with these cutie pie pics of sea creatures. in a different setting i would have let her draw but considering it was already late i just quickly outlined the following picture on to a black mounting board.</div>
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A simple activity for RG... i was tried from work so just filled them water balloons in and let her pop them on the porch.. she really enjoyed herself!</div>
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<p dir="ltr">Last nights activity was the second night in the vegetable week. We started of vege week with a simple science project that will last a few days (and posted up when its done)..</p>
<p dir="ltr">Tonights activity focuses on fine motor skills, basic writing as well as introduction to vegetable via a creative use of flashcards. The learning objectives today:</p>
<p dir="ltr">1. Learn how to colour within lines (which became a mess after RG got bored and wanted to finish it fast)</p>
<p dir="ltr">2. Hone fine motor skills by tracing shapes (reinforcing writing skills)</p>
<p dir="ltr">3. Learn name of vegetables by playing a Memory game with simple 2 sets printed flash cards (the flashcards are so awesome i took it off this link http://www.mrprintables.com/printable-vocabulary-flash-cards-fruit-vegetable.html)</p>
<p dir="ltr">So... how did it go? The first 2 activities are combined into one.. i made a simple 2 page template where RG is to trace the vege first before colouring it in. You can get the template here once i upload it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The second activity is basically arranging the flashcards facedown and play a classic memory game. Though with all the tech advancements like ipads offering the same thing with much less effort, RG enjoyed the hands on game a lot more than i thought she would .... so, yay!!<br><br></p>
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The final activity for construction week: writing and learning a bit about construction vehicles...RG was also exposed to small caps and capital letters... this activity has 3 parts:</div>
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RG liked the cut and paste wayy more than the other two ... she still has troubles differentiating b,d,p, a and q ...</div>
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Hello everyone... following this week's theme, i was thinking how to incorporate math into an fun activity for RG... finally we settled on math by measuring. The objectives of this activity are:<br />
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1. Be familiar that builders measure things.<br />
2. Measurements are taken using measuring tape<br />
3. To familiarize RG with the numbers 11-15 at the very least.<br />
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1. Drawing the basic of our home: (whats downstairs and upstairs? parents have to guide the kids to choose simple measurable items). i chose a few items within the 20-25inches range.<br />
2. Teach the basics of the measurement tape. We didn't use any metric or US unit (though we referred to inches for ease), instead we just used the word 'UNIT'. e.g this tile is 7 units long.<br />
3. then just start measuring!</div>
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1. The items needed</div>
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2. we draw basics of our home</div>
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3. Safeerah counting to measure</div>
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a few things i learnt while teaching RG:</div>
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1. this activity was slightly too advanced for her. so i scaled it down to simply counting simple things. fr example, instead f measuring the length of the bed, we just measured one of the legs. you get the idea.</div>
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2. she had trouble reading the tape as it had both inches and centimeter. maybe a simpler tape would have been better.</div>
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3. it took RG a while to realise she can just read off the numbers in the tape. initially she just counted from 1 until the length of whatever we were measuring. but by the end she kinda got the idea.. yay!</div>
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The objective of these two days.. is construction related reading and a building activity.</div>
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A. Reading<br />
Since i have limited time with RG and GJ.. i try to make some activities that take up no more than 30 mins. for reading, i chose two books that has the related theme... and it was as easy as choosing Bob the Builder books for that.. accompanied by RG's hard hat, we had a good time reading. :):)</div>
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i dont have a picture for this activity, but basically RG had a good time building bridges, buildings and towers using her wooden blocks and lego.. these two toys are the best for kids. i have imaginarium wooden blocks and duplo lego.</div>
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shaminatasneemhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766101790777598133noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7820604795975793872.post-29624510993773184392013-10-17T19:41:00.001-07:002013-10-17T20:12:25.785-07:00Construction Week: Painting Rocks!<p dir="ltr">Hello everyone... ive always wanted to do thematic type of activities... and have a whole list of them in my workfile...</p>
<p dir="ltr">So since there was a renovation going on near my place and RG took an interest to it.. constructions became our first theme..</p>
<p dir="ltr">The objective of this week were<br>
1. For her to recognize small caps alphabets<br>
2. For her to recognize number 11 to 15<br>
3. For the to be exposed to construction vehicles<br>
4. Reading<br>
5. Crafting</p>
<p dir="ltr">So since i came across some rocka today.. this was the first activity. Materials needed: <br>
1. Rocks<br>
2. Some paint</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just go creative!</p>
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Finally....<br>
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After a long time in work in progress stage.. ive finished the despicable me minions sling bag for RG.. its very very easy... with a few coloured felts and some basic sewing.. materials needed are:<br>
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1. banana yellow felt<br>
2. blue felt<br>
3. black felt<br>
4. white felt<br>
5. brown felt<br>
6. grey felt<br>
7. salmon felt.<br>
8. some snap.buttons <br>
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the layout will be uploaded soon as i did this in the spur of the moment.. <br>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since in am new to this blogging thingy, i thought some introductions will be necessary. the main aim of this blog would be to share the journey i have with my two munchkins, herewith will be known as RasGulla (RG) and Gulab Jamun (GJ). Mostly i will be updating the activities we do together at home that can also double as learning through play. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But first things first. a little bit more abt RG and GJ. RG is creative 3 year old who loves to paint. GJ is a bumbling 6 month old who is just learning to crawl and disturb his sister in every way he can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Throughout this blog, we will be seeing a LOT of these 2 and what they are upto. the first few posts fllowing this however, would be all the crafts and painting done by RG upto now. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Good Day everyone!</span></div>
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