Active Play House

Letter Bb - Part 3

2010-05-15T00:26:00.002+01:00

Letter Bb

More activities for Letter Bb. I gave Sophie a cardboard box and blue paint. After hand painting the box , she shouted 'Look! I am making a boat'.

It took half a day to dry up.

Amelie joined in to play and sing 'Row Row Row A Boat'

Name recognition activity: I used the Melissa and Doug Alphabet. Sophie enjoyed putting the pieces in the correct place and talked about each sound and the picture. I printed off her name on a A4 paper. She got to match the letters in her name.

Counting : Sophie got to stick a number of butterflies on the work sheet. We managed to do three butterflies. I used a gauze swab and plaster to make the butterfly.

Math : Number Puzzle

The Magnetic Maze Board

Play dough: Letter b for Blue

Books
Books we had read for our letter B week

Letter Bb -Part 2

2010-05-14T01:54:00.002+01:00

Few other things we did with Letter B

She was so keen to do more of the do-a dot marker activity, I printed off some random activity sheet for her .

She played her ABC block book game

Letter Bb - Part 1

2010-05-06T00:55:00.004+01:00

Letter Bb (01/05/10)

This week was letter B. We were making Buzzzzy Bee. I got this idea from notimeforflashcards , you can find the detail from there.

She managed to cut out some stripes and I prepared two wings for her to glue on it.

Mr. Potato Head

2010-05-05T22:41:00.004+01:00

I got this Mr. Potato Head on sale. Sophie had a lot of fun with it. It offers all kinds of possibilities for interactive and creative play.

Letter Aa activity - Part 2

2010-05-05T22:38:00.012+01:00

I got this idea from confessionsofahomeschooler . Its called Do-A-Dot Page, you need to use Do-A-Dot Art Markers for this activity. I got similar markers from ELC called easy-painters . This is a good little activity to improve her fine motor skills. Sophie enjoyed it very much.

I am using Letterland storybooks. Its called 'Annie Apple's Adventure'

Letter Aa - Part 1

2010-05-02T14:43:00.010+01:00

I have decided to have a more constructive active play time with Sophie. I want to focus on her alphabet. She knows her ABC song before 2 years old but she can only recognise a certain letters. One letter will be introduced to her each week through crafting, playing game, reading book etc.

Alphabet : Letter Aa

I found a great website for alphabet crafts www.notimeforflashcards.com/ . We made an apple for our lowercase letter a.

Sophie wanted to paint on it.

After this, Sophie said can I do more please. I took out the next activity which is uppercase letter A for Alligator.

Sophie had a lot of fun with this activity. Afterward, we played a chasing game.

Welcome to my first blog

2010-04-23T22:47:00.003+01:00

Welcome to my Active Play House blog. I am a wife and working mom of two wonderful daughters ages 5 months (Amelie) and 3 years (Sophie). The main purpose of the blog is to document the learning journey of my children. I enjoy playing with my daughters, seeing them learning new things through play. I am totally new to the parenting and early childhood education. I have done some research through reading books, Internet, blogs and my own experiences, finding the best way to educate them.

There are several interesting methods for teaching child:
1) Glenn Doman Method
2) Shichida Method
3) TweedleWink
4) Your Baby Can Read
5) The Little Reader/The Little Math Learning System
6) Signing Time and Baby signing Time
7) Montessori
8) Active play/ Active learning
9) Accelerated learning
10)Others method -Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf-Steiner education etc
'How children learn' by Linda Pound- This book gives a brief outline of the most child development theorists.

I want to raise a happy, confident and successful child and try to maximize her full potential. I know that my stimulation will provide my child's development with a further boost. Using the activities and ideas suggested, will enhance and extends her innate desire to learn and gives me an opportunity to make her early years more interesting, more challenging, more rewarding and of course more fun. And hopefully that's what makes a bright and dynamic child. My role is to work with my children, matching the level of stimulation to her current stage of development. Children learn through play. Play encourages creativity and imagination. Active play provides emotional learning, physical learning, development of language and spatial awareness. My active support, stimulation and encouragement will ensure that she develops into a bright child.

I hope starting this blog, will motivate me to organise different ideas and searching something new to make learning fun and also to use it again on our next daughter, Amelie. I will also share my parenting skills through what I have read, learned and experienced. As I am a working mom, I have a little time to spend with my daughters each day. Sophie enjoys going to her Montessori nursery. I make sure that I spend quality time with her each day doing some short activities. I hope you enjoy reading my blog. I am not a great writer, feel free to leave comments.