Letter B (Lesson 3)

Today is another fun lesson on Letter B. Javier really enjoy the activity that we did today.

Painting the outline of Letter B

Mummy help him to paint most of it as he keep painting in one spot only.

I get Javier to lift up the letter foam and revealed the B beneath it.

Our completed work of Letter B

Counting numbers - I drew the bug head the night before to save time.

Next we use the chop to stamp the number of body on the bug.
Javier looking at the bug counting sheet
I let him do some stamping on the paper, he like it very much. Stamping all over the place.
(Just some idea for doing stamping, I keep the medicine bottle or other bottle to used as stamper for my activity.)

The counting worksheet

Mummy is so bad, seeing Javier so happily stamping on the paper. I took the stamper to stamp on Javier face and body. He keep laughing when I stamp on his body. Following my act, he started to stamp on his own body also. :0

Look at the the smiley Javier, he is really having a fun time with this activity. He like mess, the messier the better for him.

B for binoculars

I cut out some shape for Javier to paste on the toilet rolls. While doing this craft, I also teach him about the shapes. After pasting the shape, he apply some glitter glue on it. Next mummy punched 2 holes for to tied the string.

BBBBBB surprise!!!!!

Before I opened the box, I told Javier to close his and don't peep. When I say open, then he can open his eyes. He is such a obedient boy, follow my instruction so seriously. :)

Our B box consists of blocks, butterfly, ball, brush, bear, book and bird

We end the lesson with a ball activity. As you know lah, mummy is not a sporty person. So I just anyhow kicked the ball to Javier. Even little Javier laughed at the way I kicked the ball. :(

My early Valentine Gift

It was really a surprised gift from my hubby. Normally if he want to get me something, he would ask me to go choose the gift myself. This time he bought a bag for me as a valentine time gift when he went for his tokyo business trip. I was really touched and happy.
Thanks Dear!!! Happy Valentine's Day to you too!!!

To airport.......

Yippppeee..... Daddy is coming back today. I really missed daddy when he is not around, although it is only a short one week.

We reached the airport at 5.10pm and Daddy flight is scheduled to land at 6.00pm, so we still got some time to go makan. I have cooked some porridge for Javier, while Jayden and I have MacDonald for our dinner.

But my little glutton still can't resist the fries.

After our meal, we headed to the arrival hall to wait for daddy. As usual, waiting time 'equals' to monkey time for my boys.

The 2 brothers.

I like this picture, Jayden really looked like a big gorgor sitting beside Javier.

The 'Thousand' face of Jayden!!!!!

Little cute Javier, not as mischief as his gorgor today.... (only today hor!!!!)

He really looked like 'sun wu kong'!!!!

Both of them can played until lying on the floor. :( Mummy no eyes to see

Finally we see daddy!!! My life saviour......

Mummy & Javier

Me & Jayden, (don't know why he cannot pose with a decent expression.. must make all these funny funny faces)

After bringing the boys for the MacDonald ice-cream, we headed home.

Letter B (Lesson 2)

Our 2nd lesson on letter B involves alot of craft work, especially paint. But since Javier like the paint activity. I try to include more of it in our activity.

I drew the letter B that shaped like banana for Javier to paint

I painted the uppercase B while Javier paint the lowercase

Next on our activity list is doing blot art Butterfly. I let Javier choose the colour he want for the butterfly. So these are the colour which he chooses

I apply all the colour on the already pre-cut butterfly.

Next, I folded the butterfly into half. And finally it is now Javier turn... He keep patting on the paper to smooth out the colour to spread it across the butterfly. And after feeling satistfied with it. I asked him to opened up the butterfly.

This is what we get when the butterfly is opened up.
Javier began to use his '2 hands' to spread the paint across the butterfly.
Ta....da... Our butterfly..Not bad leh!!!!

I hang it on the window to let it dry. This is how it look like after it have dried up.

This is the preparation work for the butterfly sun catcher. Javier is tearing the colour pieces into small pieces. Next, we paste the shred of papers in between 2 sheets of contact papers. The last step would be cutting out the shape of a butterfly.

Javier is not interested in this craft. Most of it done by mummy. :( But at least he like the completed work and keep telling me it is butterfly.

Our last craft of the day is making a banana, choco chip muffin.

First, I get Javier to use the hole puncher to punch out little yellow circle. He enjoyed it alot, but I got to help him to slot the paper into the hole puncher for him to punch. Cos he still can't slot the paper properly.

Next, I cut the small paper plate into half and let Javier apply glue on it.

The final step would be to add the red and black circle on the paper plate.

This is our banana & choco chip muffin

My cheeky little boy even pretent to bite on it. :)

Our dessert for today is blueberries & banana smoothies.

I put all the ingredients into the blender and soon we have our delicious smoothies.

The banana taste was quite strong, Javier din like it very much. But he still drink half a cup.

The ABC and counting book consists on individual story for each letters and numbers.

We read a story on a butterfly to end our lesson today.

I find that the lesson today seems to be too packed. When I was planning it, I din realised it. Only when I was writing this posting, then I feel that I have include too many crafts for today lesson. I wonder would it be too much for Javier??? But I am glad that my little boy managed to sit thru the whole lesson with me.

Homeschooling Letter B

We have our first leeson on Letter B today. I started off with the introducing of the letter B to Javier. He saw the blower on the table and keep pressing on it to blow the letter B.

I have already cut out the shape of the Letter B the day before to save time.
I let Javier glue the letters on a white paper. Later we do some thumb printing on it, but Javier is more interested to do hand painting leh.
I told Javier to print his thumb on the paper, but he wouldn't listen, he insist on printing his whole hand on it. :( After letting the paint dry, I draw some wings and legs to make the thumbprint into birds.

Next, I am going to sing 'A bouncy Blue balloon song' with Javier. We blew some balloon before singing. Javier really enjoyed blowing the balloon with the mini pump.

A very cute song, even Javier like it alot. He kept asking me to sing it to him. He actually 'pop' quite a number of balloons while I was singing this song.

I used the bug number cards to teach him numbers. He was quite keen to learn today. He would repeat after me when I say a number. He even arrange the number accordingly.

We did a beaver toilet roll craft today. I need to assist him alot for these craft as he can't paste the parts accurately. I downloaded the craft here.

Of course, after doing so many things, got to have some snack also mah.. Somemore my little boy like to eat so much. So I prepared a butterfly snack for Javier today.

The snack is make up of bread with kaya, pocky stick and 'wang wang' biscuits.

Look at how Javier gobbled up the butterfly.

We read a book abouts birds. As we read the story, we even have a pretend play. We imagined that we are birds. When Javier saw me flapping my arms and flying, he keep laughing, but soon he was joining me in my crazy act also. :)
I like the colourful and cute illustration in this book, The story is simple and just right for young kids

I let Javier do the spooning activity, which is considered a montessori practical life activity. By doing these type of activity, it can develop their motor skills, eye hand coordination, concentration and independence. I hope that through these activity, he would have a longer attention span.

My cheeky little boy. He is so cooperative today, he enjoyed all the activity which I have planned for him.