Homeschooling - Week 1 | 26 Months

You may have noticed that things are a bit fishy here the last couple of weeks, it seems to calm her to do fish activities and we continued with it. 

I made Mouse some Craft Foam Fish activities, we are busy with basic shapes and this game worked great for us.  I cut out some fish shapes from Craft Foam and drew some basic shapes on them with a black marker.  She then had to sort them in pairs and name the shapes for me.  Mouse loved the fact that they were on fish shapes.

I started with emotions as well, she can name certain emotions like afraid and sad, but I also drew faces on the fishies that was happy, surprised, angry and sad.  This one didn't keep her attention for too long, but I will give it a try again.

I'm busy teaching her to not only count to 3, but that the numbers also means something, that a value is attached to them.  I made this set with the fishies as well as craft foam numbers 0 - 3.  On each fish I drew a dot / s for the appropriate number.

For a craft we made a big goldfish.  Georgia, my friend from Love and Lollipops, gave us a stack of these great pizza plates and I thought that it will make a great base for our goldfish.  I gave Mouse a bingo marker, with the idea that she should dot on scales, but she prefered to squeeze the paint out and paint the plate.

When she was done with the painting, I cut out the mouth of the fish, glued on a eye and promptly glued on the tail upside down...*sigh* silly mommy...:)

Still turned out sorta cute though!

She also practiced puzzle building skills with her new Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Puzzle.  She loves Mickey Mouse and this puzzle was a huge hit.

I bought it at Checkers for about R30.00, well worth it!

 

I glued some old fridge magnets onto pom poms and showed her how to trace the letters with the pom poms. We started with the letter M for Mouse and Mickey Mouse!

I have wanted to do this project with the shape beanbags for a while, and finally got round to it. I cut out some basic shapes from felt, stitched them and filled them with some old lentils and beans I had in my cupboard. She loves these beanbags!

I would ask her to hold up a specific shape and she did so good!

Just some of the fun things we were up too.  I also made a felt set for The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.  I'll post some photos on that soon!  Have a blessed week!