Goodnight Moon Storytelling Basket

Oh my, Goodnight Moon is one of my kids favourite books and I can’t wait to share with you the contents of our storytelling basket!  I assembled it over the weekend and both Vito and Mavi are having fun tinkering and exploring the objects. 

I read this book everynight. It’s calming, relaxing… makes them ponder of what’s out there in the night, letting them observe their room and the silence of the night.  And may I just say, there is so much love in the story.  The old lady as I would always say to the boys, is lovingly watching her little kid going to sleep, just like most Mommies do!

So this is our storybasket  where I placed all of our objects and the book. I put this on the top of the shelf. Some of the items here are small so I need to assist and supervise whenever they play with it.  Items here were from the following Playmobil playsets:

• Playmobil Dining Room
• Playmobil Children’s Bedroom
• Playmobil Master Bedroom

The clock was from Amazon, the moon is a DIY, the kittens were from Safari Toob Domestic Cats  and the bears were from Learning Resources counting bears.

Now, we’ve read this book a hundred times LOL. Vito knows this by heart.  So he knows each of the objects in the book and he was quite fascinated that he gets to see them and touch them personaly! Take a look at our three little bears sitting on chairs, the comb, brush and the bowl full of mash!

He obviously loves the bears!

But his favourite of all was the clock! Now I highly suggest that you read the book to your child first.  Give it a week of reading before starting the storytelling basket as there might be times they’ll get distracted of the toys. When that happens, just allow your child to play with it for as long as he wants.

Vito can’t take his eyes from this clock so we have to pause and explore this. We talked about the numbers and hands and he was fascinated!

I hope you like this post.  It  will give you an idea on how to put fun into your reading time.  We previously had the Papa Please Get the Moon For Me and it was also a hit!

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St. Patrick’s Day Activities for 28 Months Toddler

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Vito is 28 months old.

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner and we are excited to watch the parade in the city this year!  To introduce Ireland’s big celebration to Vito, I prepared a bunch of work trays for him this month as he turns 28 months old.  I featured 9 activities here but in reality we’re doing so much more, so I’ll just update the blog of other activities that are not included here.

1.  Ireland Matching Cards.  These cards are similar to the picture books that I have already in the shop.  The cards here are all about the icons of Ireland.

2.  Sorting Erasers.  Owned this since last year and it is just now that Vito enjoys sorting it.  You can get the erasers from here.

3.  Sorting Colors.  Using the Montessori Colour Tablets #2, Vito will be sorting the rainbow colors using our Learning Resources counters.  In the picture we’re using the insect counters, he likes them!

4.  Letter R and Round Magnets.  This Rainbow Do a Dot was printed from here and I saw this from Deb’s page.  It’s a good practice of hand eye coordination.  Vito makes sure he places the round magnets exactly into the dots.

5.  Creating a rainbow using Do a Dot Markers.  Similar to the Rainbow do a dot but this time we’re using the markers.  I showed Vito how to color the rainbow and he finished half of the page. And no, he didn’t follow the order of the rainbow colors (as expected).  You can get the rainbow pattern from Making Learning Fun.

6.  Pouring lentils using a funnel.  Out of all the activiites, this one is Vito’s favourite.  More on this later.

7.  Scooping lentils. He’s quite bored with scooping activities lately, I guess its because we’ve been doing it all throughout the week.  And besides, he enjoys using his hands more than using a scoop or spoon.

8.  Counting gold coins.  I bought the gold coins in Amazon for our Pirate Unit last year, and this time Vito gets to use it for St. Patrick’s Day.  We have more counting activities than letters because believe it or not, Vito is more interested in counting than letters.

9. Patterning.  This is for colour recognition and introduction to patterning.  We are using the link cubes I bought from Singapore years ago, but you can also purchase this in Amazon.  This March, we’re working on orange and green colors, so our color activities will revolve around this two.

10. One to one correspondence using clothes pins.  A new addition to our monthly work trays is this counting cards and clothes pins.  We have lots of pins at home but found them difficult to open, so I bought the wooden ones for Vito to practice on.  He’s able to open and close it, and now his biggest challenge is to clip it on the picture. This activity is counting practice and enhancement of hand-eye coordination skills.

 

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Learning Activities for 27 Months Toddler

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Vito is 27 months old.

These are the activities I prepared for Vito this month.  Sort of a Valentines Day Unit as well, I combined the hearts and flower activities in this month’s activities.    Vito is doing well so far in all of these activities, especially in counting and all those related in fine motor skills.

1.  Gems and Flower.  Originally this is for Do-a-Dot activity but I wanted to keep the printed material so I made him use the gems.  The printed flower is from 3 Dinosaurs.

2.  Spooning heart table scatters to ice tray.  A one to one correspondence activity, basic concept for math.  But this was mainly for spooning practice. The heart scatters are from Amazon.

3.  Tweezing and sorting colored roses.  I have lots of tweezers so I made him use this Jumbo Tweezers from Learning Resources to see if his hand can control this gigantic tool. So far, he’s able to grasp it but still finds it hard to hold on to the flower for a long time. He’s able to sort the flowers correctly though.

4.  Flower arranging Activity.  Vito has no concept of flower arrangement as of the moment, but this activity is for hand-eye coordination practice.

5.  Sorting bear counters according to colours.  He’s pretending to put the bears to sleep (in the color tablets).

6.  One to one correspondece using counting cards and gems.  You can read about it here. 

7.  Matching flower cards. I am giving these cards for free till February 15, 2016 11PM GMT.  Check this post for more information.

8.  Punching the flowers into the styrofoam, to strengthen those hand  muscles!

9. Color mixing of red and white fingerpaints to produce pink.

 

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