Learn with Cele: learn jobs

Today, we started with a matching game, jobs. Yes, this is the 3rd matching and glue game we had this week. Next week, I will plan more draw or count activities. 

I printed different jobs with things related to the job. Some Cele already know, like police drives police car. Some Cele can guess based on the picture, like the police badge. Some she's not familiar with, like the construction worker. We have talked about construction trucks a lot, but not the workers. Also surprised me that she matched the hose with firefighters I thought it's the farmer but she thinks that the firefighter uses water to put out fires. Kids are smarter than I expected.

 

She lost her patient in the middle but we finished together, I helped her put on glue and her put the pictures in place matching the correct jobs. 

Then we tried some fun games: colorful bubbles and paint with bottles. 

She asked to pour colors into the pan by herself. I thought there will be colorful bubbles once I pour dish soap and water in. But it turns out to be black when all colors mixed together. lol But, she doesn't care, she likes to make bubbles with a straw. We haven't played it since last autumn, too cold to play.

At last, it's the time for sisters. Paint together with bottles. We have blue and yellow and two bottles as painting tools. They don't use the bottles the way adults would use them. They played with the bottle for a minute and started painting their hands.

Tonight, after dinner, we have a wonderful storytime together. We read:

hungry wolf,

brown bear

runaway bunny,

rabbit or duck. 

Learn with Cele: dough time with Lisa.

 Today we learn with Cele and Lisa. I got a fun game for both of them: dough time. This is Lisa's first time playing dough. Cele hasn't been playing dough for a long time. I used to make cookies together with Cele and made her dough in different colors. 

For Cele, I printed a dough mat with numbers for her to learn. She likes to make apples and hang them on the tree. But I feel it's a little hard for her to make numbers with dough, maybe the dough is not soft to roll. lol

We all enjoyed and played for almost 30 minutes. I would like to let Lisa join our learning activities more often. Extra time for me to get prepared and choose a good activity for both of them.

Learn with Cele - Things that go together 03 - Count and Qtip paint

 Today is windy, we have to stay inside for the most time. After Cele's nap, we start our learning. Today I prepared a pack of activities, in case she wants to try different things.

We start by counting ladybugs and matching numbers. She's learning counting with fingers, sometimes repeat counting the same one, sometimes just miss one. I helped her count one by one and figured out the numbers. I feel she's not into numbers as she likes letters. But we could try different ways to learn math like Pete the cat story: Tome the cat falls in love with math through counting racing cars. I need to find things that Cele loves and play them with math.

Next, we did a night painting with a Q-tip. I gave Cele black paper and a Qtip to paint yellow color as stars. She only plays it for 2 minutes.

I feel today, she's not quite in the mood of learning. Maybe she just woke up. 

Also, I feel Wednesday could be a break day. We could play the most interesting things on Wednesday for a break.

Learn with Cele - Q day - Quilt

 Today is the Q day. We have learned the letter Q, head with a straw.

We played the game: making a quilt for the letter Q together. It's super easy to prepare, print out a big letter Q, and cut several small color papers. She knows glue papers very well. Now, she learned to put glue on the background paper first and then put the small paper on it. She likes to glue, she glued two big Q.

After making the Q a quilt, we also did a practice: finding a small q and cover it with papers. 

She asked for more funs, so I found her a color task: coloring a quail. She colored it all brown. lol. I know that she doesn't like coloring too much.

Learn with Cele - A new week - Shapes matching and Sew like a spider

Today is Monday, the start of a new week. I print out a paper matching game and prepared a paper cup, rope, and a hair clip. She did a really great job at recognizing different shapes and match pictures with the same shape. I probably use more types of shapes: like star, diamond. 

The most loved thing today is sewing like a spider. This is her first time learn how to sew. I told her that we are helping spider making a net home. She learns quickly to poke the hair clip into holes from outside and pull it out from inside and pull the rope all the way out. After we finished, she even asked to place the net to the place where we always find spiders so that the spider could live in it. lol. Sweet Cele. 

 

Learn with Cele - Letter Q and Things that go together

Learn with Cele: Learning Activity – Sensory box and Matching Pairs

 Yesterday 02/10/2021

 We get back to our study plan and started a new session "things that go together".

 I prepared a sensory box with rice and placed two sets of printed farm animals inside. Cele loves to explore in the rice and pair animals up. She plays it once again this morning. 

Five Finger story retelling

 Today I found a way that American teachers used to teach primary school students: five finger retelling. After watching a few Youtube videos, I wanna try with Cele. Everyday I read stories for Cele and she remembers the story after we read it over and over again for many times. She has the eager to learn new things and able to learn at some degree.

We started with a short story about jack in the box. But the story is too short. We read another book, the ant and the grasshopper. I asked her who’s the characters in the book, where are they, on a tree or on the ground? After read the whole story, I retell the story together with her, the beginning, middle and end. She likes it a lot. She even played a acting game before dinner. She acted the ant who works hard and collected food in the summer. I am the grasshopper who is lazy at the beginning but learned to work hard at the end. We collected food together and share food. 

Learn with Cele - cut and count

 Today we back to play and learn. 

I planned to play scooping food activity with Cele. Given it a fun name “finding homes for red beans”, Cele was excited for the game. We got a big baking pan holding many red beans. Cele used a spoon to transfer beans into a another muffin baking pan. She’s good at it. Sometimes moving too fast made her dropped some beans.

After the game, she want to make a dessert with me with banana, cream, chocolate. Wow, she remembered the book about sharing dessert. We have bananas, let’s do it. I gave her a plate to hold the banana and a knife to cut banana, a chopsticks and a folk to eat banana slice. She cut better and better. We shared the banana together.

Learn with Cele: stone paint and free style draw

 Wow, it's 2021. The holiday season passed and we have a new start.

We went on a beach trip and found some pretty stones. I wanna do stone paint with Cele for a long time. There are many cute pictures on Pinterest like painting faces on stones. But Cele is still a painting beginner so I just let her paint freely.  We paint one big stone and five small stones together.

Afternoon, we played the number and letter games. She's able to follow the rule to color the same numbers or letters(B). She remembers many words begin with the letter B: bee, bear, ball, banana, ballon. We learned a new word: bed.

Cele do love drawing, she's still in the mood. So I let her draw whatever she wants. More funs.

Stones surrounded by stones.

a very long worm. 

This is the one I like the most. She drew a duck with a beak, eyes, wings, and arms. And She drew a big slice of bread to feed the duck. On the right and top of the duck, there are two fish. But she told me that the duck won't eat the fish because the fish is reserved for a cat. What a lovely story!

I taught her how to draw a ballon: you need a circle, a tail and a belly button. She drew different shapes of ballons and even draw ballons floating down. I like it.