Letter F, North America, Caterpillars, Green...

Noarai is 42 months and Lucia is 24 months old

In geography we were working on North America. We had fun pretending to be the statue of Liberty.

In letters we worked on F finding different objects starting with F all over the house.

We introduced the concept of Medium  to Lucia and we had fun comparing our feet (shoes) and painting our feet trace.

We made frog feet stamping and our F for feathers craft, and Noarai wrote her name all by herself:)

We had fun singing the "Harry, Harry, drive the firetruck". I made in foam (a firehouse, a firetruck, the ladder and the hose) Lucia loved it. And of course we acted the song with our hats and stearing wheel.

We plant our beans with wet cotton and we had fun everyday tracking the changes.

We had lots of fun playing, feeding and cleaning the box of our caterpillar. We learned about constancy on feeding everyday our caterpillars because we forgot it for two days and some of the caterpillars died, the following days Noarai reminded me each day to feed them. They also learned about butterflies and we compared the differences between our caterpillars and the butterfly we had. It was challenging to hold the caterpillar and to pass them to her sister so it was challenging fine motor work as well.

Green bath painting. They loved this activity, they are asking to paint everyweek in the bathtub. I used shaving cream with food colorant, it's perfect for cleaning and for sensible skins.

Lucia it's reviewing her numbers from 1-5 and we played the "water game" they jumped from number to number and if they fall down I sprinkle some water on them. They loved to be sprinkled.

Learning to trace number one and number two.

Preparing our poster of North America. We worked on some of the different races we find there: afroamerican, native american, mexican, american.

We painted our outline of North America and glued: the golden bridge, the white house and the statue of Liberty (we worked them the weeks before) and the different races as well.

I used contact paper for preserving the map and for stucking it to the wall. Every morning we sing our song of North America and we point to everything on the map (I will make a video for the next week)

For music day I introduced The letter G with Gorilla. We made the Gorilla dance in front of the mirror, we played our song with the instruments, and on the xilophone and we finished writting our music sheet of the song. Noarai is getting pretty good at reading music sheets:) I hope to share more of this music work soon.

And this last photo was taken by Noarai of her grandmother "yaya Juli" I'm amazed at how good she's getting at taking pictures.

Letters sh two weeks wrap-up

• Shining star: She poked a star from cardboard, add glue and glittered. And we also talked that when we are happy we shine like a star.

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•  shadows with sh objects: Noarai loves to find her shadow on sunny days so she was thrilled to be able to make shadows at home. We used shoes, shirt, baby dolly's shoulder and a shaking maracca. She used a lantern to make the shadows over the table and the white paper.
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•  Shoe potato stamping: I cut out a shoe shape from a potato, and prepare a sh scanvenger sheet. She stamped the potato over each sh founded.

• Big letters on the floor: I made a big sh with a washable marker on the floor and she filled it with shape blocks. She did one letter and I did the other one, can you guess who did each one? Well Noarai did the h for the very first time in her life she was focused in one activity for 15':)))) And she did a perfect H.

• Sh out of playdough: she decided to make the s in yellow and the h in blue. And even her sister join in the fun.

• shower: we wrote it on the fridge,  she wrote sh on her chore hanger, she prepared her baby for a bath, she showered her baby and dried it

• Writting on brown sugar: she enjoyed to write her letters until she started to eat and throwing away the sugar. Is was a great activity but when she got desconcentrated she figure out new ways to play:)

• Shoes: we gathered all Noarai's a Lucia's shoes on the sofa. And we counted them, separate them by color, type. We played a matching pair game. And of course we tried them on. Even Lucia got in the fun. We wrote shoe and we made a graph of the colors. Finally we wrote shoe with shoes on the floor.

• Sunshine dinner: it was a french omelet, black olives, mayonnaise, and vegetal meat. She asked for this dinner several day in this two weeks.

SCIENCE

• Germs experiment: I took the idea from Growing up our style. It's awesome.

• Oil and water /Oil and milk experiment:  I gave her water in two containers. She poured the milk in one and the oil in the other one, and we discussed the different behaviors. Then we observed the separation between the oil on the top and the water, she had fun drawing with the oil over the water. And we finally mixed both containers and observe that the oil was still in the top of the water.

NUMBERS

She can recognize from 1 to 3 without counting, and she had done really well with 4 this week as well. We matched flower candles by color and count them.

PRACTICAL LIFE

As we have bought a new vacuum, the old one is hers and she is getting pretty one at vacuum cleaning. She also mastered this week to use the mortar for smashing bread and the knife for cutting. She is a very good helper:)