Preschool Activity Ideas

One of the better approaches, when trying to think of preschool activities or preschool lessons for you and your child to do for home school activities, is that you dont get bogged down trying to be too structured. There is plenty of fun, educational, and informal preschool activities that you and your child can get involved in.

 

The top of the list when it comes to preschool activities and child learning would be reading. Getting the child involved early in learning to read, establishes good reading habits and a foundation that the child can learn from for a lifetime.

 

Learning to read for the child certainly doesnt have to limited to books. You should also include poetry, songs (while singing together); reading the boxes of their favorite toys, or anything that they are drawn to could be included in their homeschool preschool activities. Just be creative.

 

Preschool age is a wonderful learning time for the child. They are naturally full of wonderment and curiosity at the preschool age. Take advantage of this trait. Use everyday tasks around the house for learning activities. Sorting clothes by color for laundry, dishes by color or size, if you are doing some organizing around the house, use this opportunity to relate different shapes and sizes to your preschooler. When youre out and about in the world, always use this time as an educational moment. All the shapes sizes and colors you come across just at the grocery store alone make for a wonderful preschool activity. Its homeschooling and youre not in your home!

 

If, you run across a question you are unable to answer, dont just say that you arent sure or that you dont know and leave it at that. Take the opportunity to begin to instill another great learning skill into your child. That of looking something up for an answer to which you dont know. Even though the child cant search for the answer yet, they can, witness and be a part of this valuable information seeking procedure. I cant tell you what a valuable skill you will be instilling into your preschooler if you help them in developing this type of problem solving skill and attitude if you incorporate this into their daily preschool activities.

 

Preschool activities are limited only by your imagination.....child education is a wonderful experience, just relax, be informal, be creative.

 

Learning activities are indeed everywhere.

 

Author: Mary Joyce
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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My Children Development at 27 Months and 13 Month

Hafiy is 27 month old. So he is 2 years old now. Lil Fahry is 13 month old and celebrated his first birthday last month.

Let's see how they are doing..

Hafiy:

• Recognizes some phonic sound but not so confident to 'spell' them correctly. He could recognize some simple words like CAT, FAT, MAT, HAT. However for longer words, e.g. BABY, he just could say "Beh... Ar... Beh.." which is very good for a 2 year old boy. Bravo!
• Counting is still not very good. He knows the numbers 1-10, now in training to know 11-20, however he still can't count. If there are 3 objects, he'll keep on counting and counting 1,2,3,4,5,6.. even though they are only three items!
• Arabic alphabet also just so-so. He knows some letters with their sound like Mim =Ma, Ba'=Ba, Dal=Da, Sin=Sa..
  
• Could be count on to tidy up his belongings. Just give him some condition "You tidy up your toys and I'll give you milk".
• Still fully breastfeeding.
• Can say "Mommy!". Usually he only called me "Mi!"

Fahry:

• Said his first word ="Car!".
• Loves to point on object and talk in his language.
• Broke his prosthesis and now living without one.
• Got his cradle cap severe day by day. Ayyyooo! (Has been to several doctors and paed)
• Likes to bit me. Adoii!

So now I use this blog to jot down their development and create another blog, to jot what I've been doing with them.

:)

Happy New Year 2010

Today is already 3rd January 2010. I am reactivating this blog, to joy down my kids' development from day to day, week to week, month to month, year to year.

Today I am blessed, as Hafiy is now 27 months old and Fahry is 13 month old. Both of them are getting cheekier and develop their own personality, which are very head-aching LOL.

Happy new year everyone!

A week

it has been a week, i didn't go to SCN to see Fahry. and for a week, Abiy went there every morning and night, other than bringing Fahry his food, was to check on him and perform gentle massage. he is a great father, juggling with his office work, family at home & at the hospital. we knew that Abiy is exhausted cos most of the time, people in the office will go for him and need him to be in some important meetings, including inter-boundary meeting with Brunei. and he has to take care for his own family, beside his mom's family in KL. Abiy is a big hearted guy, isn't he?

Abiy told that Fahry was moved from in front of nurse's counter into a room next to it, and now wearing cloth diaper :D

Fahry is now taking 25ml per feeding and is constantly in sleeping mode everytime Abiy goes there. his current weight is unknown. i hope he's gaining weight lah.

Abiy said the wound at his right foot is 'dry'. and his skin also dry so i bought Buds Baby Lotion, because it is organic and i was too afraid to put paraben things on his thin skin :D Abiy uses that cream to massage his body.

this evening Abiy told me "i think you should be there. poor lil boy, nobody is there to comfort him". i said even if my eyes now is OK but i rather wait for 2-3 days to make myself confidence that i am really OK. yeah i as much as possible try to bring away any harm from my babies.

nothing much on Fahry that i knew. i hope he's getting bigger by the time i'm there to treat him. i always remember Fahry's smell, and can't wait to be there again.

today i got some calls and texts from some close friends who just knew about Fahry, and they felt bad about that. i must say that, don't be, cos i really didn't tell anyone about Fahry, except my ex-roomate cos i don't know how to. oh tidak kelakar. for others who really want to know more about Fahry, i just say "u can check it in my blog".

and you know, when somebody in a happy mood congratulate you for your new baby, would you rather ruin it by telling about your child that might be heart-melting. others maybe are, but i'm not. & i dont want anybody to assume that we're in misery for having Fahry, no. he's my son & we are so happy. & would you still be happy if someone tell you "my baby cacat"? would you still eager to congratulate? furthermore, most of the time they'll ask "baby sihat?", so i answer "sihat alhamdulillah". :)

so, to make everything easy to everyone, i rather put it in this blog rather than telling everybody personally.

(Hafiy sometimes gives me headache for he likes to stay up at night and disallow me to pump for Fahry's milk)

we would like to thanks to everybody, for your supports and helps.. and definitely for the friendships you launched for our family.

buat yang menulis tentang Fahry di blog masing-masing, we really appreciate it! thank you so much for your concerned.

may ALLAH blesses everyone and give you all the best things in your life..

TERIMA KASIH BANYAK-BANYAK, THANK YOU SO MUCH,
ありがとう, HAVALA, MERCI,
GRACIAS, 감사합니다, شكرا, спасибо, 谢谢...

~ hugs from Hafiy, Fahry & family...

**i am very sorry for not able to reply all the messages, SMSes, or even return your calls & pay the visit to your blogs. i will definitely DO IT some fine day :) ~~ - Mami Hafiy