South Africa has been extremely hot the passed few days. The kids needed to do something that was gonna cool us off while burning off some excess energy.
We had a water dropper fight!
There was pretty much no preparation needed and we used things we already had at home.
- Water in a big bowl
- Medicine squirter/dropper
The kids were full of giggles! Mama was full of smiles!
It was great exercise for me too. When they came loaded with two droppers loaded with water I had to run away as fast as possible.
And its a great fine motor skills & problem solving activity for your kids. They have to learn how to fill the dropper and learn how to squirt the water out.
Deen is 4 years and 7 months old.
Aaliya is 2 years (28 months old).
I will be posting this weeks Tot School and Preschool Posts in one post.
We started the week off with an activity that my kids love; Our Sensory “Treasure” Hunts.
Aaliya had to really practice some patience here as she was really eager to have a turn.
Aaliya found it so hilarious when Deen decided to feel the beans with his face and lips. It was giggles galore when Deen lifted his face up and she saw that beans were stuck to his lips.
Then when Deen was done I told him to place each of the animal objects back so that Aaliya too could have a turn with the search.
We told Aaliya to look away while Deen hid the animals. She kept trying to peek! I would then tell her, “Hey.. you are peeking!” and she would immediately giggle.
We then used the Zoo Pack from 2 Teaching Mommies.
This was the first time he played a roll and graph game and he loved it. Since Deen does not like to color I gave him circular stickers to place each time he rolled a particular animal. This activity was great for all types of math lessons. I would ask him which animal he rolled the most. He would have to answer by looking at the graph without counting. I would also ask him which animals he rolled the same amount of times as well as the least. I highly recommend these type of roll and graph games!
He also sounded out each of the animals and was then able to place a clothespin on the right letter.
We practiced counting together.
She was able to match the zoo animal pictures to their shadows without any help from me.
Aaliya LOVES playing the game of Memory. I place 4 cards (2 pairs) face down and she then plays Memory. As she gets better I will increase the number of cards(pairs) I place upside down.
Aaliya glued together a Shapes Person with my help.
Since I did not post about Deens Preschool activities last week and since it was also his last week of school holiday before school started I didn’t work too much with him and allowed him to just play and relax.
Here are some of the activities we did:
We did Carissa’s Batman Preschool Pack.
He also used a few items from the Pretty Bugs Preschool Pack that I knew he would enjoy. Although it is a girly theme I figured that since Aaliya was using it and I had everything printed out that it would still be useful for him.
