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Week 9: Personal Health || 52 weeks of theme-based toddler homeschooling activities
- Numeracy:
- Science: Plant a bean seed
- Craft: Make a smile (paper plate)
- Fine motor skills: Pom poms in a bottle, Brushing teeth
- Gross motor skills: Play, Jump, run, ride bike
- Cooking:
- Books to read: Time for a bath, Germs are not for sharing,
- Trip: Pool
- Screen:
- Music:
- Bible:
What happened:
This week was supposed to highlight the importance of personal hygiene, washing hands, brushing teeth, bathing. I let him brush his teeth himself, bath himself, comb, dress himself (as far as he could) while singing "this is the way we..." and since then he's been wanting to do himself but there's so much we can allow him.
Showed him how to wash his hands;
Set up:
Science: Planting Beans
Direction
Othe activities we did;
This week was supposed to highlight the importance of personal hygiene, washing hands, brushing teeth, bathing. I let him brush his teeth himself, bath himself, comb, dress himself (as far as he could) while singing "this is the way we..." and since then he's been wanting to do himself but there's so much we can allow him.
Showed him how to wash his hands;
- A Bowl
- A Towel
- Hand Soap
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| Washing Hands |
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| He had to clean up after the mess |
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| The book we use for science |
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| What you need |
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- Put the paper towel in the cup
- Put the beans in the paper cup and wet the paper towel
- Watch the seed grow in a couple of days
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| Days Later |
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| Pool |
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| Using flash cards - I don't recommend for 3 years and below. I don't use it again. |
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| We climbed, ran, played in the playground |
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| Souvenier |
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| Screen Time |
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| Identifying daily objects |
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| Found him reading a book. |
How's your homeschooling week going?
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Week 8: Potty Training || 52 weeks of theme-based toddler homeschooling activities
Hello People! This is week 8 of our 52-week theme-based activities
This week we were supposed to start the process of potty training and I kid you not by the end of the week we were already done.
What we majorly did was play videos for him in preparation and I will share the videos we used below:
Our plan that didn't work was:
What we majorly did was play videos for him in preparation and I will share the videos we used below:
- Talk about it
- Watch Videos
- No diaper - bare bum
Let's just say it took cleaning up poo a couple of times for us to say we were done and decided to try in a couple of months.
What was your experience potty training?
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As always, our routine stands we added "Wheels on the bus" to our circle time.
We counted his toy cars.
Craft: Painting with Tyre tracks.
Materials needed
It was so much fun to see him have so much fun. I was absolutely amazed as to how he was very interested in the activities. I learnt a lot from the fact that I have to follow his interest to have the maximum effects.
How did your homeschooling week go?
Week 5: Transportation || 52 weeks of theme-based toddler homeschooling activities
- Numeracy: Count toy cars
- Science: Rolling down the ramp
- Craft: Painting with tyre tracks, making an aeroplane with craft sticks, traffic light
- Fine motor skills: Cutting patterns
- Gross motor skills: Fly around like an aeroplane
- Cooking: Apple boat
- Books to read: My big book on transportation
- Trip: Traffic light
- Screen:
- Music: Wheels on the bus, red light, green light.
- Bible: Jesus rode on a donkey
What happened:
This was probably my son's best week. From observing my son I knew that he loves cars, wheels and I was also excited for this week because I just wanted to see how he was going to respond to something he was interested in and I was amazed!
Let's see what we actually did, shall we?
This was probably my son's best week. From observing my son I knew that he loves cars, wheels and I was also excited for this week because I just wanted to see how he was going to respond to something he was interested in and I was amazed!
Let's see what we actually did, shall we?
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| Setup for Day 1 |
We counted his toy cars.
Craft: Painting with Tyre tracks.
Materials needed
- A car
- Paint
- Paper Plate/Cardboard
Directions
- Put your paint on a flat surface or paint the tyres of the car with a brush
- Give the car to your child and let them create a masterpiece
Traffic Light:
Materials needed;
- One Craft Stick
- Glue
- 1 Paper Plate
- Coloured Pen/Pencil & Paint
Directions
- Draw the 3 circles to depict the traffic lights
- Paint red, yellow, green
- Glue the craft stick to the back of the paper plate
- Talk to your child about their creation.
This activity can be used to introduce the significance of each colour in relation to transportation, can be used to colour introduction & identification. Your child is expressing themselves creatively and learning in the process.
We flew around the house like an aeroplane.
Book: We read my big book on transportation to identify all the modes of transportation. Car, Taxi, Cart, Boat, Aeroplane and he was absolutely mesmerized by it. He just kept opening and identifying it all. His Favourite is "Twuk" I had to collect the book from him as he tore some part of the book.
We pointed at all the traffic lights as we drove past.
Bible: We read the story of Jesus riding on a donkey - He didn't even sit to listen.
Other activities we did:
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| Invitation to play |
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| Pom Poms in a bottle |
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| Using a tong to transfer |
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| We reused out traffic light paper plate. Using a spoon. |
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| Nature and Identification of what we saw in the book |
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| Soap Water |
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| Expression |
It was so much fun to see him have so much fun. I was absolutely amazed as to how he was very interested in the activities. I learnt a lot from the fact that I have to follow his interest to have the maximum effects.
How did your homeschooling week go?
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