Periscope

The kids loves to watch TV IQ in Malaysia. In saigon there is no such channel but sometimes they will request that ummi type them a science project video. I am so glad that they are into science project now to do as a project. 

The other day Harith watch about a periscope and immediately wanted to do it, in fact he draw a plan on how it should look like and even the priciple of how they actually work.

So we gather our things and started.

The equipments are a long rectangular box, 2 mirror and tape, scissors and cutter. Above you can see Harith drawings on how the periscope works. He drew an eye and how the eye see through the reflection of the mirror. Look at the direction of the arrow. Well he soon will learn that the reflection is of light that goes into the eyes not the other way around.

Now we are aligning the mirror in the  box.

I did the cutting work.

Set the mirror and tape them up. Making sure we secure them well.

Done!!!!!! the kids were having a blast with them.

The next day Harith brought them to school to show it to his friends.

Hot and Cold

Hot and Cold

Again emphasize is actually on language development taking advantage of the activities to enhance baby motor skills. 

Actually activities with babies are much easier because the surroundings are their classrooms, thats why we see babies touching everything that they see and they will spend a long time touching, playing, messing up with new things that we gave them cause its their natural instinct which is curious and passionate of learning.

This is my recycled nutrition bottle. I do keep lots of these bottles at home.

I put ice in one bottle.

Warm water in the other.

Tada!!!! Then present them to her. This is the good way we try to instilled organization in our kids too.

Remember istiqamah always, small but continous.

Then she will start touching them, we as usual start saying "hot" and "cold" everytime she touches the respective bottle. Then I let her play with the bottle as long as she like, if she plays them quite long then the temperature of the bottle will wane , so i put in a fresg ice cubes and a fresh warm water.

I love these bottles cause its really water tight and really hard to open, which is of course madiha favourite thing to do, opening up container. 

 

Big ball, Small ball.

Recently I have started some activities with Madiha, the concept of activities for very young babies and todlers are more to motor skill, fine motor skills and language development taking into consideration that at all time we are making them very alert and well aware of their suroundings. Taking some times doing activities with them is also important so that we are actually making an effort to spend quality time with our baby.

The lesson are very short only around 5-10 min, because at this age their concentration span is very short as well. We as parents have to understand that knowledge is like seed that grows into large trees with strong roots inside our child's brain.

 

Presents this 2 balls in front of her and let her plays with them. And say 'ball' and repeat them and repeat them, "ball" "ball"

Then you can introduce another words "big" "big" when she plays with the big one.

And when she takes the small one we will say "small" "small"

Take a note that only says one word at a time. 

Let her plays with them without interuption, once she got bored and starts going to you then we can start playing the ball with her.

This activities then will be repeated at other times and adding more words such as "bounce" "roll" and all associated words.

We should also do this at bath time and says "bath" ,later introduce more associated words like wash, hair, face, hand. During meal time "eat" , then rice, drink, cup.

In my case , as malays I introduce both, sometimes I use the malay words sometimes english. This method is acceptable as long as we singularize the words. One word at a time.