Javier

Recently, he has develop a liking to scribble his name on the white board. Whenever he is free he likes to scribble his name or just some numbers to show it to me.
 

Just some work

During his free time, he likes to dig out books and ask me whether he can do it. Currently, we are taking a slow pace for him to learn writing his alphabets. He is much more confident in his writing now. When he is in a pretty good mood, he loves to scribble some letters and show it to me.

Learning to write letters

Despite that Javier can trace well, he still can’t write well without the dotted line to guide him. Thus few days ago, I started spending time with him to teach him how to write lowercase letters (which I think is much more important and difficult as compared to uppercase).

After a few session with him, he can now write a,b,c and d quite well.

 
He would trace the letter first, follow by practicing to write on a blank paper. It was quite tough in the beginning when he was learning to write a, but once he knows how to write a, writing b, d, g, p, q would be easy for him.

Simple activity with Tees & Marbles

I saw these plastics tees and marbles in Daiso and thought I could do some activities with the boys using it. However after buying it, it just laid in a corner of my study room for a few months until today which I finally put it to better use. :D

My little helper

My boys likes to help me with my chores like collecting the dry clothes from the drying rack and folding it for me. Although sometimes they seems to create more jobs for me. :P But I am glad to see that Javier can fold clothes pretty well now.

 

Play-doh activities

I don’t like play-doh at all!! but my boys love it!!!!! :( However, given the vast benefit in playing with the play-doh, I decided to go with my boys and let them play with it, but not very very often.. :P

Some benefits are:

development of fine motor skills

stimulates sense of touch

development of finger/hand strength

development of eye-hand coordination skills

Spanner… Hammer…Bolts & Nuts

This tool box was Javier’s birthday present from lucas mummy. It has being kept in the storeroom for a long time. It was not until I was tidying the storeroom that I happened to see it remembered about it. This is a really good toy for practicing fine motor skill.Javier was getting frustrated trying to unscrew the nail using the screw driver as he was getting nowhere trying his best to turn here and there.

Colour and Shape Sorting

Javier received a Colored Assembly building block from his preschool during Children’s Day. This toy have been sitting in a corner of the house collecting dust until tonight!!!… Javier took it out and decided to make some good use of it. Actually I find that this is a good toy to teach the kids about colour and shape and also not forgetting fine motor skill. Javier was very patient and concentrate fully in completing the task of sorting the different colour pieces into the respective coloured pole.

Rice for Scooping

It has been some time that we did this activity… so I decided to let Javier have a go today. Actually he was feeling very cranky as I did not let him watch his DVD, but I managed to divert his attention to this activity. Soon he was enjoying his rice scooping, and totally forgot about wanting to watch TV. Materials needed: Rice, Scoop, Ice cube Tray.