To make life easier for me
Baby School = Dragon
Preschool (now) & Tot School (then) = Tiger
Okay, guys?
So, Baby School...
Please bear in mind that she has free play all day long.
She is a very physical baby who thinks she is Spiderman.
But because she has been screaming to join Tiger for a few months now,
we have decided to let her try 'school' for about 30 minutes every night.
I don't think she will enjoy the detailed work I did for Tiger when he was a Tot.
They have very different personalities.
For Dragon, our approach will be more playful and activity-based
With that in mind, I prepared these.
Left:
Stacking cups with foam shape (from Enfagrow)
Shapes & Sticks (for beginner's threading)
Little Poeple and circle fraction's board (one-to-one correspondence)
Right
Large buttons & 2 bowls (transferring)
Blue can (ciggarette butt holder from DAiso) and pipe cleaners
The poker chips and can
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After clearing off Tiger's material to make space for her,
she took one look and walked away...
Gasp
Noooooooo!!!!!
Sigh.
Tiger would never have done that to me.
SOB
She likes the Do-A-Dot markers.
Every time she comes into the room, she walks straight towards them.
Oh, what the heck?
Let's paint and make a mess
See the shell-shocked face?
Priceless...
She held on to the marker for dear life and
refused to play with the Crayola stampers
(which by the way is the closest to Do-A-Dots as you can get
Or you can search for bingo markers on www.tanbao.com)
I removed all the gadgets and poured some paint onto the tray.
A funny pic just for you...
It was a spur of moment activity, so,
I used this instead of good'ol homemade paint.
After weeding, washing the water feature, trimming the plants,
picking up Tiger's sand play, washing off the bubble mix,
wash myself, eat dinner, teach Tiger.....
then painting with them (all after full day's work),
gimme a break laaa.
Next time, I will try to make pudding/yoghurt/whatever paint.
The Crayola paint makes her hand smell yucky, even with washing.
Should have used finger paint.
Important Note:
Please don't do this if you child is still mouthing.
Lil Dragon stops at "No!" and is no longer mouthing everything in sight.
4 comments:
Hi, just surf on the washable paint this morning,then now saw u post on it.
anywhere,where u bought the large button n poker chips?
the portable tray that ur kids using is one of the item i told u Ikea had discontinued it. :(
hi Jessica
Thanks for sharing. I'm excited about your baby school and can't wait to share it with my boy soon. I'm still not very sure how to go about. maybe just trial n error, here n there.
my boy eats everything he grabs. so you think it's ok forus to impose a NO? That's going to be overkilling of NO all the time. Any negative impact from your experience? :D
tks to help first time mong cha cha mummy like me. .
Tiger SHOUTS no at his sister all the time :(
No, my toys;
No, my books;
No, my this, my that....
I have no choice...
All the NOs got impact dy..if my MIL say NO loudly, she will lower her head and purse her lips, make kolian face...very funny and endearing...MIL oso cannot tahan, very sayang her now.
Personally, I don't think it is wrong to say no. They need limits. Everything also yes, die lor, climb over my head. I think at the end of the day, as long as your child feels loved and protected, they will be alright.
Personally, I am against strongly negative actions such as harsh words, beating, punishment, time outs, etc. That's why I don't use physical methods. I try not to shout but still susah la, short fused a bit :)
:)
The large button is for threading and size diferentiation from USL. I a bag shared with a friend.
The poker chips are from Fun And Cheer. Bought during CNY for gambling :)
My red foldable tray is from Tesco, not as stable as Ikea but okay la...you can try there and see.
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