Learn with Cele - Day 2 - eating green apples

Today is day 2 of learning with Cele. I stopped by Trader Joe's to get some apples and fresh veggies. We played the game of houses of apples. She learned to count apples one by one and place apples into different apple house. Apples look so yummy that she cannot focus on the game. She picks apples and gives a bite. I told her to finish one first and then eat another one. She said she'd like to eat like a caterpillar who eats fruits in a row. lol

Cele also asked me to invite the papaya and kiwis to the apple houses. She's able to pick papaya when I asked her to pick the biggest fruit. She doesn't like kiwi so she reserves kiwis for her sister. 

I feel this game could be more fun to play at mealtime. Ask her to arrange food for herself, me, and daddy. But she may end up eating all herself. lol

Learn with Cele - Day 1 - apple, "frog" day and "poop" color

Cele is 2 years and 5 months old. I started thinking about how to home educate her. I'd like her to be happy and we both could enjoy the time spent together. I've tried different ways to teach her using flashcards, alphabet books, and storytimes. Teaching a toddler does not like teaching a student who will listen and follow exactly what you said. I learned to respect her thoughts, give her time, and being patient. She likes to mimic what we said and memorized many stories we've told her and speaks using the phrase learned from the book which we do not ask her to learn or remember. Cele learned much faster and smarter than I ever thought. At the same time, I feel that she's sometimes not confident and I'd like to encourage her and gave her positive feedback.

I found some really interesting resources online. I really wanna try out the play-based toddler education ways. Meanwhile, I started to reserve more time to DIY with her. We did our first Halloween box together. She learned glue, cut, and she like Halloween a lot. 

This is the first day of our home learning. We sang the song of days together. Cele named Friday as the day of a frog. She thinks the hand gesture of Friday looks like the foot of a frog. 

Started with learning Apple. I drew an apple tree and placed big apples on it. Cele glued several small apples on the tree as well. We sang the song of "picking apples" together and pretended to pick apples, eating apples from the apple tree we made together.  I read the "Ten apples up on top" halfway through. 

At last, most fun, Cele did finger drawing apples on to different characters' heads (Cele, lion, and dog). Cele likes to draw with fingers much much more than using a brush or other tools. Cele draws a story of worms eating apples. She discovered that mixing green, yellow, and red colors together will make the color of poop(lol).  She made colors all over her hands(what a mess! but lovely). Cele used her colored hands made pictures of "poop" hands.

I used spare time during her nap to get prepared. I drew pictures of a lion, dog, and Cele for the activity of finger drawing. I wrote done the names of days, the song of "picking apples" and draw a big apple tree as well. Use a small plastic box to hold watercolors. Cut apples with red paper. All of that preparation took me 10 minutes.