Toddler : Under the Sea

Fritz is currently 23rd months

This week we have an Under the Sea theme. We didn't have much to do with the theme as I didn't prepare much for it. And Fritz was rather Cars than Sea Animals. Then we mixed the theme. So next week, we're going to have a Transportation week.

Picture : Sea Animals
This flash cards have been made when I started the first period of home education. I had ever taught this cards to Fritz and at that time he wasn't as enthusiast as now.

He knew the animals mostly. I just said it not more than twice. When I mentioned the animals, he grabbed it and gave it to me.

Art : Under the sea finger painting

This was the first stage of doing the under the sea finger painting. I prepared few paints in the palette and asked him to do the finger painting in the drawing paper. It's nice as he didn't take any refusal doing it. He liked it!!

Actually, after the paint dried, I was gonna make under the sea view. The fact, I forgot to take the pic and it wasn't good at all the result as I wasn't a good imaginer of under the sea view...hehehehhehe....

Craft
*Fish sticker*
He pasted the fish sticker in a drawing paper then he continued to make some bubbles around it. Actually, I wanted to do it by myself, he insisted to do it alone. Though it was a little bit messy, it's his masterpiece bubbles!! *yay*

*Octopus*
We made this octopus...

Preparation:
* a yellow construction paper
* a black origami paper, make 2 eyes with it
* scissors
* glue
* pink marker

How to do:
1. make an octopus body from 2 hands of the kid by eliminating the thumb. Make it close, the right and left fingers
2. make some small circles around its body by using pink marker
3. paste the eyes.

*Colorful fish*

It's very easy to made.

Preparation:
* a black construction paper
* a white construction paper
* few of different color origami paper
* glue
* scissors
* red marker

How to do:
1. cut the black construction paper into fish body shape
2. make few different size circle from origami paper, make it 6 for each color
3. make a circle from the white construction paper for the eye
4. apply some glue in the fish body
5. let the kid paste the colorful circle into it
6. then paste the eye and make the ball eye using red marker

Song : Teasing Mr. Shark

(Five) little fish
swimming in the sea

Teasing Mr. Shark
"You can't catch me
You can't catch me
Yee...Yee..Yee..Yee..Yee
Yee...Yee..Yee..Yee..Yee
Weeeeks >,< "
*put the tongue out*

*soft voice*
Come along Mr.Shark
as quiet as can be
*SNAAAAPP!!!*

Note:
- It's a rhyme and we can use our body gesture when rhyming it.
- We can change the number of the fish.
- When we say fish, we can put our two hands together and move it like a fish.

Tracing : Straight and Circle
He was so enthusiast as usual when he did the tracing straight lines. However, he still needed more practice when doing the circle trace. Ciayo, boy!

Practical Life
*Cleaning up the car*

When he woke up, he went straight away to his car. He rode it like usual. Then I saw it was so dusty and I had an idea to ask him cleaning up his own car. He was so enthusiast doing it though he didn't clean it up well. At least he learns how to take care his own thing.

*Thomas' stickers*
He continued to paste this Thomas' stickers. He didn't really love so much with Thomas and it's quite shocked for me when he wanted to do it.

Miscellaneous
*Cars Lapbook*

As he LOVES cars so much, I took the cars lap book out again. He was so happy to see it. He played with it for long time. He took the counting cards out and made it messy. I put it straight and asked him to put it in order but he still couldn't do it well. He knows all the Cars' characters name. Well done, boy!

*Same sleeping style*
One day in the morning, I saw both of this son and dad were sleeping with this same style. I didn't wanna miss the moment and I grabbed the camera fast.

Techno: Playing Online Game
He always interested with laptop and really wanted to involve in it. Uncle has found an online simple game for him and he was happily playing with it. He just needed to press one single key and let the player did the rest. It's about Mario Bros was riding a motorcycle through hills. When Mario has fallen down, he giggled and chuckled a lot. Looks so happy!!

Fun : Visiting ii Ling2
Monday morning, we went to ii Ling2 apartment to visit her. Together with Oma and Uncle, we arrived in her apartment almost lunch time.


After an hour, Fritz has settled with the environment and he started to mingle with us. He opened the fridge. He's also brave to touch Molly, the dog. He even tried to feed it.


Though the apartment is quite small, we still had much fun there. Great time!

Song : Teasing Mr.Shark

(Five) little fish
swimming in the sea

Teasing Mr. Shark
"You can't catch me
You can't catch me
Yee...Yee..Yee..Yee..Yee
Yee...Yee..Yee..Yee..Yee
Weeeeks >,< "
*put the tongue out*

*soft voice*Come along Mr.Shark
as quiet as can be
*SNAAAAPP!!!*

Craft : Colorful Fish

It's easy to made.

Preparation:
* a black construction paper
* a white construction paper
* few of different color origami paper
* glue
* scissors
* red marker

How to do:
1. cut the black construction paper into fish body shape
2. make few different size circle from origami paper, make it 6 for each color
3. make a circle from the white construction paper for the eye
4. apply some glue in the fish body
5. let the kid paste the colorful circle into it
6. then paste the eye and make the ball eye using red marker

Pictures : Sea Animals

Actually this flash cards have been made before I started the home education.

Craft : Octopus

We made this octopus...

Preparation:
* a yellow construction paper
* a black origami paper, make 2 eyes with it
* scissors
* glue
* pink marker

How to do:
1. make an octopus body from 2 hands of the kid by eliminating the thumb. Make it close, the right and left fingers
2. make some small circles around its body by using pink marker
2. paste the eyes.

Tracing : Straight and Circle

He was so enthusiast as usual when he did the tracing straight lines. However, he still needed more practice when doing the circle trace. Ciayo, boy!

Miscellaneous : Same sleeping style

One day in the morning, I saw both of this son and dad were sleeping with this same style. I didn't wanna miss the moment and I grabbed the camera fast.

Techno : Playing Online Games

He always interested with laptop and really wanted to involve in it. Uncle has found an online simple game for him and he was happily playing with it. He just needed to press one single key and let the player did the rest. It's about Mario Bros was riding a motorcycle through hills. When Mario has fallen down, he giggled and chuckled a lot. Looks so happy!!

Practical Life : Thomas Sticker

He continued to paste this Thomas' stickers. He didn't really love so much with Thomas and it's quite shocked for me when he wanted to do it.

Craft : Fish sticker

He pasted the fish sticker in a drawing paper then he continued to make some bubbles around it. Actually, I wanted to do it by myself, he insisted to do it alone. Though it was a little bit messy, it's his masterpiece bubbles!! *yay*

Cars Lapbook

As he LOVES cars so much, I took the cars lap book out again. He was so happy to see it. He played with it for long time. He took the counting cards out and made it messy. I put it straight and asked him to put it in order but he still couldn't do it well. He knows all the Cars' characters name. Well done, boy!

Art : Under the sea finger painting

This was the first stage of doing the under the sea finger painting. I prepared few paints in the palette and asked him to do the finger painting in the drawing paper. It's nice as he didn't take any refusal doing it. He liked it!!

After this, I wanna to make the creatures using marker. Just see later!

Practical Life : Cleaning up the car

When he woke up, he went straight away to his car. He rode it like usual. Then I saw it was so dusty and I had an idea to ask him cleaning up his own car. He was so enthusiast doing it though he didn't clean it up well. At least he learns how to take care his own thing.

Fun : Visiting ii Ling2

Monday morning, we went to ii Ling2 apartment to visit her. Together with Oma and Uncle, we arrived in her apartment almost lunch time.

After an hour, Fritz has settled with the environment and he started to mingle with us. He opened the fridge. He's also brave to touch Molly, the dog. He even tried to feed it.


Though the apartment is quite small, we still had much fun there. Great time!

Toddler : Farm Animals

Fritz is currently 22 month 3 weeks

ABC : Coloring Oo

O for Opa....

He knows this letter best! So when I asked him to color, I put the O flash card in front of him. He just mentioned "O for Opa" as long he did the coloring.

Craft
*Horse*

The first craft that we did..

Preparation:
* 2 different color construction paper, light brown and dark brown
* double tape
* scissors
* 2 wiggle eyes
* a black origami paper
* glue
* white wool string

How to do:
1. Make feet print (left and right) on the light brown construction paper, cut it
2. Cut the dark brown construction paper into 4 legs and a neck of horse
3. Put some double tape into the neck and 4 legs.
4. Make the horse by putting one foot print as the head and the other foot print as the body of the horse, connect with the neck
5. Paste the legs
6. Decorate the horse by putting eyes, 2 holes of nose from the black origami paper and a tail from it too
7. Cut the wool string as the hair of the horse, paste it
8. Tadaaaa!!!

*Cow*
Mr.Moo

Preparation:
* Cow's template
* A marble
* A tray
* Black paint
* palette

How to do:
1. Put the cow's template on the tray
2. Prepare the black paint on the palette
3. Dip the marble on it
4. Put the marble on the picture
5. Let the kid shake-shake-shake the tray up-down-left-right
6. and tadaaaaa!!!

*Sheep*

He didn't really into when doing it. He refused to paste the body of the sheep. He didn't like to uncover it with cottons. So it was me! ^^ He just put the eye only...-__-"

Preparation:
* Black construction paper, cut into sheep's template
* Cottons
* Glue
* A wiggle eye

How to do:
1. Apply some glue in the sheep body
2. Cover the sheep's body with the cotton
3. Paste the wiggle eye after that

*Hand Prints Chicken*

This was the fourth craft we did this week and it would be the last one. Actually we still have Pig Craft but we didn't have much time to do it.

So here's what we need:
* a light yellow construction paper, cut into chicken's body
* a dark yellow construction paper
* a black origami paper, make 2 eyes with it
* a red origami paper, make a chicken's mouth by cutting into a diamond shape
* glue
* scissors
* a pencil or pen

How to do:
1. Make kid's hand prints on the dark yellow construction paper, cut it. (Left and right hand)
2. Prepare the body, paste the eyes and mouth using glue
3. Paste the hand prints as the chicken's wings

It's so easy to do!!

Tracing : Straight Lines

When he did tracing, he felt unsatisfied if the lines weren't nice. So he did more and more and it looked like so many lines there.... Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!

Book : Barney goes to Farm

Before sleeping in the night, Fritz likes to read some magazines he has. And I put this book with them and we read it together.

Barney, BJ and Baby Bop came to a farm. They came to help the farmer. They feed the horse, milk the cow, took chicken's eggs, rode a tractor, picked corns and other vegetables. It's a nice story to recognize what we do in the farm.

Learning Toys
*Dough*

Dough is still big hits for him this week. His favorite spot is sitting right in front of in front door.

I made new things for him. I made an airplane, a cat and a car. Actually, I wanna make animals related with the theme this week, but he refused it. The one that I had to make is Mickey's face. He loves to put the eyes, ears and mouth into it.

He practices his soft motor skills by rolling the dough into balls in his hands and paste the dough into the proper place, e.g the eyes, ears and mouth or the wheels of the car.

*Dinosaurs*
Yesterday, when we went to a mini mart, they put a sale toys in front of their mart. I saw a dinosaur packet and it's just cost 9,000 rupiah. So I just got it and asked Pop to pay for it. *yay*

*Wooden Wire*
He just found his old toys. Because of the wire has broken, I didn't allow him to play with it and I just put it very far away from him.

So when he found it, he insisted to play with it. Now, he is able to play properly with this wooden wire. He can move the beads from up to down, left to right and to other sides. Cihuuuuuuuuyyy ^^

*Farm Animals Puzzle*
He didn't too much interest doing it as he is so expert in it. So when I gave to him, he didn't want to complete it. I have to give it more than once this week. It was the 3rd times and he did it!!

Miscellaneous
*Thunder*

When the thunder stroke in, he went to Uncle and stayed like this....he was so afraid of thunder!! Look at his pale face.....cute!

*Crossing feet*

I love this pic so much!!!

Both of them were standing in front door and they stood up alike each other.

The situation:
Pop had a phone from someone and he stood up with crossing feet. Then a few minutes after that, Fritz came nearby and copied what his Pop did. Crossing his feet as well as his Pop did!!

Fun : Jovann's B'day

This week we had attended Jovann's 1st b'day. They held the party at Hoka Hoka Bento, Alam Sutera.

It was a nice party but Fritz really didn't like the party at all. The one he loved was seeing the cake, full of his fave's characters. There were Mickey & friends plus Winnie & friends. He stared the cake for long time.

The rest of the party, he preferred to play outside with Pop and Mabelle and her dad. Dads talked each other about their kids development while Moms (Mom and Tante Mega) were having chit chat inside and enjoying the party. It's a reunion for Mom! ^^

Fun : Jovann's B'day

This week we had attended Jovann's 1st b'day. They held the party at Hoka Hoka Bento, Alam Sutera.

It was a nice party but Fritz really didn't like the party at all. The one he loved was seeing the cake, full of his fave's characters. There were Mickey & friends plus Winnie & friends. He stared the cake for long time.

The rest of the party, he preferred to play outside with Pop and Mabelle and her dad. Dads talked each other about their kids development while Moms (Mom and Tante Mega) were having chit chat inside and enjoying the party. It's a reunion for Mom! ^^

Reading Books : Barney goes to Farm

Before sleeping in the night, Fritz likes to read some magazines he has. And I put this book with them and we read it together.

Barney, BJ and Baby Bop came to a farm. They came to help the farmer. They feed the horse, milk the cow, took chicken's eggs, rode a tractor, picked corns and other vegetables. It's a nice story to recognize what we do in the farm.

Miscellaneous : Crossing Feet with Poppa

I love this pic so much!!!

Both of them were standing in front door and they stood up alike each other.

The situation:
Pop had a phone from someone and he stood up with crossing feet. Then a few minutes after that, Fritz came nearby and copied what his Pop did. Crossing his feet as well as his Pop did!!

Learning Toys : Farm animals Puzzle

He didn't too much interest doing it as he is so expert in it. So when I gave to him, he didn't want to complete it. I have to give it more than once this week. It was the 3rd times and he did it!!

Craft : Hand print Chicken

This was the fourth craft we did this week and it would be the last one. Actually we still have Pig Craft but we didn't have much time to do it.

So here's what we need:
* a light yellow construction paper, cut into chicken's body
* a dark yellow construction paper
* a black origami paper, make 2 eyes with it
* a red origami paper, make a chicken's mouth by cutting into a diamond shape
* glue
* scissors
* a pencil or pen

How to do:
1. Make kid's hand prints on the dark yellow construction paper, cut it. (Left and right hand)
2. Prepare the body, paste the eyes and mouth using glue
3. Paste the hand prints as the chicken's wings

It's so easy to do!!

Tracing : Straight Lines

When he did tracing, he felt unsatisfied if the lines weren't nice. So he did more and more and it looked like so many lines there.... Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!