monsters 1 last week post!!!

Noarai 36 months and Lucia 18 months

Last week I wasn't able to write so here you have our last week.

Some Montesori work. Lucia worked pouring cereals from one cup into the other.

 Noarai worked in spooning cereals and pouring with cups of tea.

 The following materials are from 2teachingmomies and from 1+1+1=1
She enjoyed the graphing activity a lot this week.

 She cut all her monsters and sort them in two eyes or three eyes. She is doing pretty good in cutting lately.

 She did some Confessions of a homeschooler writting practice I had from last year printed. Last year she wasn't ready for them, but this year she's really motivated in writting,

 We did some shape review with Lucia. As Lucia knows the circle and triangle she stuck the circle sticks inside the circle and the same with the triangles ones. I was amazed she could do it all by herself:)))

As this was too easy for Noarai she decorated her moster and cut it out.

 Look mommy I made an Elephant!!!! She couldn't do it again :)

 Monsters counting for Noarai and dot painting for Lucia. Lucia painted everywhere as I was helping Noarai with the big numbers.

 Monsters puzzle for Noarai she did a great job and is starting to enjoy puzzles, and Lucia was still playing with dot paintings.

We mixed blue and yellow to make green.

 Bathtub painting with blue and yellow. It was so funny to listen to the girls saying look mommy the water is turning green. I used shaving cream with food colorant.

 We were all sick on Friday so we did lots of playing and this post game with a cereal box and cards,



Frogs-princess and triangles

Noarai 36 months and Lucia 18 months

As I'm on modified bedrest (for a twin pregnancy) we work each day as I can. The girls and I love learning time so we make an effort to do something each day.

Montesory work:

Noarai worked pouring beans with three cups. She worked for 15 minutes I'm amazed that it's a lot of time for her. She was funny when I took the picture.

 Lucia worked with two cups and beans. The handles were a problem so next week I'm trying it with a normal cup. She worked on transfering beans from one cup to the other with her hands instead.

 I planned to work princess theme, but daddy came up one night with a frog so we introduced some activities. We did frog cutting, Noarai has improved her cutting skills now she can hold her paper with one hand and cut with the other.

We did some Montessory counting 4-5-6 with the frogs she cut.

She did this picture all by herself, she is really motivated on taking pictures lately.

In the meantime, Lucia worked pouring the scissors out the cup and arranging them inside again.

Color mixing work. As frogs are green we mixes yellow and blue for making our green. Noarai loved to mix them and she did it 10 or more times.

Lucia is the great painter, she loves to paint her hands and make a big mess, she did as her sister lots of times the mixing. After mixing the color we actually color a frog.

I didn't took picture but we worked the frogs anatomy making a puzzle of their parts and with montessory cards. Our vocabulary was: eye, mouth, tympanun, nostril, front legs, hinded legs, belly and trunk. Our videos where:
1. A boy singing the song speckled frogs
2. Jamaroo kids version
3. Her favorite version
4. Flannel board version

Some princess work. We did for her very first time a graphing exersise and she loved it. This material is from 1+1+1=1 Princess tot pack.

She sorted different ballerinas and slipers cards.

She painted a ballerina like mommy, she wasn't very proud of her work and she's sharing mommy's work for the picture instead. But I was amazed because she's starting to paint inside and in small spaces and the most important work to copy the colors of the different parts.

More counting this time with cards she is really into counting everything. She can do perfect until 4 all by herself and more but if she pays attention, so we worked 4, 5 and 6.

 On Friday we did some weather work with Lucia. Noarai as a very good teacher of her sister came up with very good games. We take this beautiful flanel board Noarai received for her birthday and I was just going to fill the sky with clouds as it was a very cloudy day. Noarai began to cut tissue paper and making clouds for the flannel board, Lucia loved this activity.

As I was explaining her that when the sky is cloudy and grey the rain come and we usually run home to keep dry. She began to put all the plants and the animals of the flannel board inside the house, I was amazed because I didn't ask her to do it but actually she was doing what I said:)

We also painted clouds on the blue sky with a paintbrush she loved it.

Noarai enjoyed it as well but for my sorprise she did fingerpainting as well. I was so happy because she really doesn't like to get dirty and each time we do I have to encourage her.

Triangle fun: Mommy hid triangles and the girls found them . Noarai asked me four times to hide them again. She loved this game, Lucia enjoyed once but then began other activity.

They came up with this activity and I just step back, making towers and rearranging her triangles.

Of course we played our triangle instrument. And we worked fast and slow walking all over the family room. Noarai loved to do fast but did pretty well slow coordinating triangle playing with stamping her feet.

Lucia had enough learning to play the triangle and Noarai stamped her feet at her rhythm.

Sorry for the pijamas outfits they are wearing but most of the days I just get them dress when they are going outside. Bedrest is more important for now. 

Finally Noarai is really motivated lately in reading so I'm following Teach your child to read in just 10 minutes a day and she's is reading lots of new words.

Mommy's break!!!!

This last weeks we have found out that we are expecting twins. And mommy has been suffering morning sickness (and whole day sickness) I'm feeling tired... well I've decided to take a break of tot school and adjust to our new situation. Even though we are not having pre-planed tot school, learning is happening in our house and here you have some of the random things we had acomplished.

Noarai has mastered to squeeze her orange juice all by herself!!!!

 We had enjoy some videos of the little green frog in You Tube. And worked on some life cicle puzzles, Lucia had a blast exploring each piece.

 We made some tiny tadpoles with playdough.

 We sang Peter and Paul song.

 They had a blast painting with shaving cream the frog.

 We made a pond and made our froggies jump.

 We sang Peter and paul song with our dry frogs.

 Noarai practice some punching skills while Lucia painted the frog. Lucia wants to be included in all the activities:)

 Lucia has mastered to open, lock and unlock the dvd's. I decided to prepare one for her to play all by herself and give it to her when she wants to touch the good ones:)

 We had a blast with "the ants go marching one by one" with some videos from you tube. And reenacting the song. Lucia was more interested in Noarai's reading words.

 Matching color ants from COAH, this was too easy for Noarai but interesting for Lucia.

 We had a princess evening one rainy day. With the amazing printables of the princess pack from 1+1+1=1. Here Noarai is wearing her crown. And singing the song.

 Her princess by number.

 Having a snack while watching lightnings and listening to thunders.

 Having a rain walk. They loved it and yes they arrived home all wet, but a warm bath fixed it all.

 One day Noarai asked me for cats and I printed out different kinds of cats. She painted them with dots,

 Lucia enjoyed each one trying to imitate them.

 We sang "five little monkeys" and count our monkeys one by one as they falled down the bed.

 We played with purple playdough.

I hope you enjoyed it. Several weeks of spontaneus work. I hope to be soon on the track, but for now let's have some necessary rest:))))