Planned activities for the day:
- Cars and "Mateo" letter road tracing
- Vehicle arts craft (cut and paste)
- Origami (boat and airplane)
- Paper helicopter
Highlights of the day:
Letter road tracing
- Mateo got excited when he saw the cars and road letters, and played with it immediately
Boat origami and paper helicopter
- Also got excited upon seeing the paper helicopters (have played with this before so he knows what to do with it)
- I encouraged him to color the paper helicopters, but he got me to color it instead
- He's still not confident (or just lazy?) to do art on his own
- When he saw the sheets of magazine papers, he knew what he wanted to do right away: he asked me to make a boat
- He then asked to put it in water; and I made numerous boats afterwards
- He knows that a boat is a "water transportation" -- probably learned it in YouTube
- He was not delighted when I made a paper airplane on my own initiative; the airplane made its way to the basin of water
- I encouraged him to color the paper helicopters, but he got me to color it instead
- He's still not confident (or just lazy?) to do art on his own
- When he saw the sheets of magazine papers, he knew what he wanted to do right away: he asked me to make a boat
- He then asked to put it in water; and I made numerous boats afterwards
- He knows that a boat is a "water transportation" -- probably learned it in YouTube
- He was not delighted when I made a paper airplane on my own initiative; the airplane made its way to the basin of water
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| Photo by Mateo |
Vehicle paper crafts
- He cut the print outs when he saw it
- Then he asked me to cut it out (probably when he couldn't cut it the way he wants)
- He simply glued the cut outs to another piece of paper randomly -- it was supposed to be a paper craft of vehicle, but I decided to just let him do his thing
Play dough
- It's play dough time again - he can now say it right
- Introduced to him the concept of "long, longer, longer" as well as the "short" ones
- He still hasn't grasped the concept to describe length
- Introduced to him the concept of "long, longer, longer" as well as the "short" ones
- He still hasn't grasped the concept to describe length
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| The happy faces lined up |
Lego, building blocks, and fine motor skills
- He made a small tower from the bigger blocks with a rotating piece at the top, and he was proud to show it to me
- Other fine motor plays: car Lego, mini cupcake silicone liner "bubbles"
- Not much rough play today, thankfully; but he did not take a nap
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| These are the silicone mini cupcake liners, which he calls "bubbles." We "pop" them inward and outward. |
Ideas for next lessons:
- Preparing activities beforehand is a good idea; gave me extra minutes to myself
- Encourage open ended art activities
- Prepare an art corner
- He liked the transportation theme (because he generally likes vehicles); so more to "themed" activities that cater to his interests
- Encourage open ended art activities
- Prepare an art corner
- He liked the transportation theme (because he generally likes vehicles); so more to "themed" activities that cater to his interests
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