As I was preparing the homeschool time table for Tim (will share that in my homeschool blog soon), I was poring through all my resources, homeschool materials, game books etc... I chanced upon these two ideas... and jumped right into preparing these for the kids.
I recycled an old milk tin and cut a slit on the lid, bought a pack of mahjong chips and voila...something new and fun to play with for the kids...With this, I taught Tim to put the chips into the tin in sequence of blue-yellow-blue-yellow... the kids also learned the concept of sizes - Large, Medium, Small, Tiny... whereas, Little Missy, learned about colours, cause & effect - dropping the chip into the tin, shaking the tin, plus building up on those fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination.
This is a real cheap and good teaching tool cum toy... *smile*
A homemade "sandbox", was something I wanted to do for a while... but I didn't get it done previously because of the mighty mess that I'll have to clean up after the kids... but because we live in a concrete estate, where the nearest sand play around is Jacob Ballas, I thought it might be a good idea to have a sandbox at home...This was made using a basin (had wanted to use one of their baby bath tubs but will do that the next time)... a pack of soya beans, a pack of kidney beans and a pack of green beans. (Tip: try using bigger beans it makes cleaning up easier)
Caitlin came in time to join us on this today... *happy* The kids had a great time grabbing those beans building up on those fine motor skills, pouring, scooping, flinging... they could work on it all day if I didn't stop them... when I pulled out the dustpan and mini broom, Tim worked on "helping" me sweep those beans up (so Montessori)... *LOL*
Witnessing what great fun the kids had this morning at the corridor, it's worth the big clean up
to do afterwards...
*Both ideas taken from The Toddler's Busy Book.
5 Think alouds:
oh these looks like so much fun! must try it one day! great idea.. thanx for sharing :)
I really like the way you let your kids have fun at thier own home sweet home!! A lot to learn from you actually :)
Mamabliss, actually I love that bag in your picture that you sew actually. But I love the one pink colour in your previous post 'Sew Colourful'! May I know how much you charge for one of the same bag? Thanks ya.
I missed those times when Cherrlyn play with your kids...all these daily lifestyles really can stimulated their minds..
Hi Mamabliss
I am inspired by your blog. Can I know more about the homeschool fair and how can I be invited to join?
Thanks.
Mum of 2 kids
Hi Mum of 2 Kids, I am not sure when the next homeschool fair will run for this year as I have yet to see any announcements on the homeschool forum.
you may join the homeschool forum here http://singaporehg.byethost13.com/forum1/
hope that helps! :)
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