Monkeys had Fun! August- (ORG)

Hello everyone, We are back again with our monthly Reading Group!

This August, we started with Monkeys.

Here you can see we use 2 books.

Both books do talk about monkeys and what they do.

So I incorporated Actions words.

It was pretty fun as the children could act and play with the words.

After reading the book, we do some bouncing using the Bouncy ball.

All children take turns and had fun. So you can see they learn the word Bounce!

Next we did some craftwork. We let the children do cut and paste.

They were to make a monkey face!

Easy job for kids ages 3-5.

They cut it and paste it all by themselves.

Don't you just love our monkeys!

We are going to hang this in our bedroom!

Lastly before we end the session, we did a monkey dance!

 

Here you go,

First scratch your tummy, then lift up your chest,

then scratch your chin, after that lift your hands and reach up to the sky.

Do a silly walk, and pose!

Now wave goodbye and spread your wings up to the sky!

 

Hope you all have fun!

We just did!

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!

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....

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

 

 

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!

Mannerism July ~(ORG)

July is here again!

This time we have Mannerism for our reading group theme.

Potty manners are important to little children,

here we have a whole book about potty manners.

It is a very good book with pictures and

all the manners children should know.

Here is the book that we read that day!

After reading the book we let the children remind themselves

about what to do when they need to go.

It was pretty interesting that they manage to

remember the manners.

After that we played the manners card game.

A situation will be given and the children

need to answer what word they should use.

It is more like a Q&A session.

 

After that we remind the children about some table manners.

It is all about eating manners and etiquettes.

Words that the children learn:

Please

Thank You

Excuse Me

I am Sorry

Please Share

 

 

 

Farm Animals in June ~ (ORG)

For the month of June, we gather again in this reading group for the theme:

FARM ANIMALS

Thanks to our story teller Ms.Fong.

As usual, we start off with story telling. Here our little children

practice interactive listening;

which is asking questions and learning what the story is about,

in the meantime, the children have to responds to all the questions asked.

Our reader did a good job in posing and answering all the questions.



Next we have some colouring going and

the children learn to identify the different farm animals.

 

Here we are having the Q&A sessions.

We ask the children some simple questions that relate to the

farm animals and they have to identify which animal it was.

All children did a great job in answering the questions.

I hope all children manage to learn something new this time!

We will have more Q&A sessions next time!

 

Thanks to all who participate!

See you all next time.

 

Oh something for all to share.

Animal / Baby

1. Rooster / Chick

2. Sheep / Lamb

3. Duck / Duckling

4. Goat / Kid

5. Cow / Calf

6. Pig / Piglet

7. Dog / Puppy

8. Horse / Foal

All about Insects...

In May, we attended a bugs workshop organised by Jungle classroom.

There are lots of activities for the children to understand and play.

It is mostly outdoor fun for all parents and kids!

Well here you can see that the tutors are reading a book

and explaining how the Hungry Caterpillar

is roaming around and eating all those food!

After explaining all the details about insects and how to identify a bug,

the children get to go off and catch one.

Later, they also make a colourful caterpillar.....

Do some exercise, play some games

and lastly, visit a pig farm!

Awesome!

 

 

 

Easter Fun in March ~ (ORG)

After a long break from February, we are back again in March

for the Easter theme Reading Group session.

We start with reading a book to the children.

The title of the book is:

Strawberry Shortcake: Have a Sweet Easter, 2010

by Grosset & Dunlap Penguin Young Readers Group, New York.

Next activity is: Paint the egg!

We have all little ones explore with different colours and patterns.

Here you can see the little bunnies that the children bring and their painted eggs.

 

Oh we also did have some cut and paste fun for the children to

Trace, Cut, Colour and paste.

Here are the paper bunnies that they make!

 

Ooooo, we also have a surprise birthday party

for the child whose birthday falls on March!

The birthday girl's mommy brought in the cake and

all children have fun celebrating!

Seems like it is a snow white theme!

So you know who's the birthday girl?

 

So lastly, all enjoy the cake and the lovely party packs!

Thanks to all who participated;

See you all again in April!

Rub-A-Duck-Tub

 Rub A Duck Tub, A Rubber Duck theme for Our Creative Art Playgroup!

It was a cloudy Morning, we started off with 

dotting the ducks with colourful colours,

but this time we wet the duck first! See the ducks have polka dots!

All little fingers paint their duck using the cotton swaps and 

are free to dots wherever they want.

Their patience are being tested, not all finished their painting though! 

All getting excited to make their own Ducky Cupcake! 

Anxiously waiting to eat it too!

To our surprise, all children manage to

joint the cuppies and create their own version of duckies!

They get to decorate their ducks with tiny marshmallows and edible beads. 

 Can you see our lovely creations? 

Those little ducks are just too pretty to be eaten, snap a shot first before eating it!

Next we had a scooping duckies time, 

this get to brush up their motor skills and concentration.

Some even get to scoop 2 at once, even better. 

Rule number one, no hands get to touch the ducks!

Here all ready line up to go for the ducky race!

Quack quack here we come, go number one and keep on coming.

We get the children to move about differently and work on their muscles a bit!

 Time for some fun!

Here all the kids go wild splashing water and
get wet like what little ducks do!

 Rub-A-Duck-Tub

We love water &

We had fun!

Lastly, some quiet moment to calm down before going home.

Now Story time!
I have a book about all different types of duck
which is very interesting for the kids to learn more about ducks.
They love the pictures and got really interested about ducks!

After the reading session, all were tired and ready for lunchtime!

Thanks to all who participated, all children had a blast with the ducks!

Back to School in January ~ (ORG)

For the year 2013, we begin Our Reading Group (ORG) with a 

"Back to school" Theme since it is January!

 Here is our Book of the day, Elmo Goes to school!

 All children are concentrating hard on the questions and answer session.

 Here we have a Show & Tell session by all mommies.

 We have chosen, a pencil box, a school bag, a box of colour pencils and a file folder.

For all the Show and Tell, there will be lots of Q&A sessions and explanations. The children had to participate more and engaging in conversations. This practices their listening and language skills while also introducing new vocab. I do hope that all of them learn something from this reading group.

All of us Mommies do hope that next time it will be their turn to explain things to us! LOL....