Monday 18 November 2013

Wording dice game for kids.

Here is something that I have created for my Screen-Free mission!
My 4 year old has started to do some reading and writing,
so I intended to do some revision with her.
This is what I come out with after spotting an
interesting Art dice game! (Which you may want to try too!)
Well nevertheless, this is what I did. 
First I got some black wooden square blocks and
painted them in some pastel colours.
I have 6 different colours for each side.
I asked my 4 year old to help, and she did only the pink!
I did the rest..... lol.

After that I use different colour sharpies to write on the cubes.
I have asked my child simple questions like:
1. How do you feel?
2. What animal do you like?
3. What body parts can you name?
4. What kind of action words you can think of?
5. Name the colour.
6. What kind of pattern you can think of?
7. Name different type of skin for the animals.
8. Describe the sizes.
Well, you can come out with many different descriptions too! 
I also did ask my girl to try to spell simple words.
Of course, she must able to understand all the words written too.

Now, we start playing by rolling
the dice and stacked it up accordingly.
I would help her on the arrangement
of words; which one come first and all.
She just love stacking it up, using
some of the motor skills here too!

After that, I would ask her to copy the sentence on
an exercise book; draw it and colour it!
Also I ask her to read each word accordingly.
She totally enjoyed this and wanted to play again!

So this is the second sentence that she come out with!
I use a lot of descriptions here, but you can try it differently.
Also I might add in some sight words for her to learn as well.
 
I hope this gives you some inspirations!
Thanks for stopping by.
If you try this differently don't mind sharing it here too!

Saturday 16 November 2013

Texture Sensory Bin for Baby

It's sensory bins again!
Well, I need to let my 13m old try something new.
So I call this Texture sensory bin.
Things you need:
Paper
Foil
Tissues
Cotton wool
Bubble wrap
Plastic wrap
 
Throw everything in a bin then
scrunch, squeeze and tear 
all different materials in front of baby.
I did try to let baby feel every single material on his skin!
 
Have fun!
 

Friday 15 November 2013

Hermit Crab ~ November (ORG)

It's the month of November again! Time just flies!
We are back again this time with Eric Carle book!
We just love his books, don't we?
The children just love those stories. Lots of questions ask and answered!  
 
Now we had to do some art with it!
We are making handprints and
drawing a hermit crab should not be as hard!
Children just love doing arts!
 
Now here are those lovely artwork!
See how they draw the things relate to the
undersea world...
 
Well, we had our lovely November Baby celebrating her birthday!
Our children just love parties and presents!

We had a mini baby shower for
our 2 lovely mommies,
both are due real real soon!
A boy and A girl coming in soon!!
 
Thanks for all who participated!
Love is on the way....


Wednesday 13 November 2013

The Gratitude / Thankful Jar Game

It's nearly end of the year, so time to teach some gratitude to our little ones!
A lot of people will link it to Thanksgiving and other festival;
as I do not really celebrate Thanksgiving, but I want to teach my child about
Gratitude, Being appreciative and Respect. 
So here it is, The Thankful Jar!
Things that you need:
Colourful Paper
Sharpies
A Jar
*Stickers - optional

Now begin to write sentences like:
I am Thankful for............
I am Grateful for.............
Well, one can be thankful for anything at all actually.
After that, I ask my little one to think what she wants
to do for that person, pet, thing, etc....
Then I write it down below and ask her to decorate it with some stickers!

Then I ask her to fold it up herself and put it in the jar.
Now, it's all done, but you still can decorate the jar itself
with your own favourite cloth or ribbons!
 
Now we start playing the game every single day in the morning.
She will need to pick a piece of the paper from the jar,
and do what she is requested on the paper.
Example:
"I am thankful to grandpa for buying me ice-cream!"
*Action: I will give grandpa a big Hug!
Then she will need to do that on that particular day!
 
Feeling excited now? My girl is!
Hope you will like this activity!
 
I have got this idea from, and modify a bit: 
Gratitude Activity Jar by Inner Child Fun
 
Feeling Gratitude and not
Expressing it is like wrapping
a present and not giving it.
~ William Arthur Ward
 
 

Monday 4 November 2013

4th Penang International Kids Storytelling Festival 2013

October is Penang International Kids Storytelling Festival! (PINKS)
So ORG has decided to participate in their storytelling activity.
We actually went to listen to Roger Jenkins!
 
 
 ROGER JENKINS (UK) who won the Best Storyteller award at the 16th Kanoon International Storytelling Festival in Iran in Feb 2013. He is a popular performer and trainer in schools, libraries an...d community events. Thanks to his spontaneous, comedic, and often participatory style of telling. In 2012, he published a teacher's resource book for moral education in two volumes (Juniors and Teens) and has just released The Parent’s DVD Guide to Storytelling. 
The storytelling was interesting, Mr. Roger uses different techniques and props and tools.
Our little children was excited and a got a little tired at the end as the session was quite long for them.
Overall it was a good experience!