We were practicing last week with lots of Sensorial activities using a Hawaii theme!

• Sorting by colors or by shapes. (I cut a necklace from the Dollar Store; got 3 for $1) I can use them as counters, too!

• Pincer grasp practice with marbles inside a Hawaiian dress.

• Sorting flamingoes with tongs. (Ok, flamingoes aren’t from Hawaii but found them in all the stuff I bought so why not to use them?)

 

• Inserting flowers on sticks. (These are from a Lei necklace that I broke in order to make Pinky’s flowers bracelets) She has to pass the stick thru the hole in the center of the flower.

• Matching sandpaper numbers with the corresponding amount of rocks.

• Clothespin and birds!

• Inserting wood beads on pipe cleaners. (This is suppose to be a palm tree with coconuts. I just took 2 sticks, put a brown pipe cleaner around and them 2 green ones.)

• Language- Tracing letters with crayons

• Art- Painting with yarn, bottle caps, toothpicks, etc. Also, painting a flower on canvas.

 

• Sensory box- Hawaiian style! With buttons I found at Michaels and the rocks are from our fish bowl (Yes, I washed them very well before using them).

Now that I am looking at the pictures, I think we did plenty of activities for our Hawaiian theme…..the truth is that we were having too much fun with it!

Therefore, we still have Hawaii part 3!!!

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Last week we were having fun with a great sunny and warm weather, beautiful beaches, great dancing and tasty drinks in Hawaii! Of course, everything from our own house!

(Beautiful Pinky Hula dancing…she takes it very serious! lol)

Daddy was the one having the real fun since he was attending some conferences there! Therefore, we were learning about Hawaii! What a fun and loooongggg week…..

Here it is:

• Learning about Hawaii Islands, looking for them and home on a map.

• Painting Hawaii name, examining a picture about Hawaii while watching a youtube video. She loved it!

• Our Hawaiian set up! (Everything from the dollar store!)

• Hawaiian clothes, Ukulele, watching a video form an ukulele musician and hula dancing girls (her favorite one!)

That’s how we started our Hawaiian week!

She loved her Hawaiian dress and hula dancing all the time. Pinky loves to dance and whenever she is dancing she put this kind of funny/serious face that I can’t help myself laughing. She really looks sooooo cute!!!

All our Hawaiian flowers, birds, etc. I found them on Dollar tree store! I really love that store!

We still have moooooooorrrrrrreeeeeee for another post!

Blessings!

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I am so exciiiiiiittttteeeeedddd about a great surprise I got a few days ago from our friend Natasa at Leptir- A Montessori Blog!! She has granted us with a new award: Tu blog me encanta!!

 

Thanks so very much, it really made my day! Go and check her blog; is one of my FAVORITE ones…those ones I have to check and see what’s new all the time…I enjoy looking for her great Montessori ideas to do with my Pinky.

Since I just can pick up 10 blogs from all the ones that I love, here are the ten “encantadores” ones:

1. The work plan
2. Baby brainstorm
3. Welcome! My tot learning time
4. Wczesna Edukacja czyli Antka i Kuby świata odkrywanie
5. Lawteedah
6. Early learning with Martha and Eaton
7. Elle Belle’s bows
8. Shannon’s Tot school
9. Owens family
10. Tot play: A learning journey

Go and check these fun-tastic blogs!!!

Blessings @}~

Bubbles are really fun…not just Pinky loves them, but I do, too!!! I love to blow the bubbles for Pinky to try to catch them. Here are some of our beautiful days having fun with bubbles!!!

At the Easter get-together!

Trying to taste some bubbles!!!

Just having fun at home on a regular boring day!

  

Here are some great bubble activities and recipes….with summer coming anytime soon (I hope so!) we will have plenty of time to play and discover.

• Explore bubble science- different kinds of homemade bubbles! 
• Bubble play and open up a discussion
• Print out a mini book of bubble activities

Enjoy!!!

Here’s an activity I did with Pinky a few weeks ago (when we had a lucky great weather weekend) to teach her about primary and secondary colors.

One day while shopping around at Target, I saw a bag with three little water guns in 3 colors: Red, Yellow and Blue….so, my mind got full of ideas for a dollar toy.

The most important one was teaching Pinky about primary colors and how she can get others colors (secondary) when they are mixed. Ok….for her was just a fun time…a playing time…a WATER time…and a messy time with colorful water….I think the best part is that she was learning and having fun :D

I filled my little water guns with water and added 3-4 drops of coloring food….red inside the red gun, blue inside the blue and yellow in the yellow.

Later, we grabbed two papers:

• Fist one: Mixed blue water with yellow….we got some green spots!

• Second one: Mixed red water with yellow…we got orange!!!

It was really fun and she was so happy mixing the water from the guns…..after she ended the activity…she just played around trying to hit some flies with the water….lol

What did we get from this simple (and cheap) activity?

• Learn about colors. What I loved the most is that she was able to relation the color of the gun with the water color inside it.
• Work those little hand muscles when using the water gun.
• Eye-hand-object coordination…when trying to hit an object with the water on the gun. (At the end she was really good controlling her hand to wet the plants, rocks and ants around.
• Gravidity: when you fire water up yourself….be careful because it comes down onto your face!!! lol
• Free art exploration.
• LOTS OF FUN around!

  Playing with water is always FUN!!!!

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Pinky’s favorite words on these days….and she really is mommy’s little princess!

    

She is an up-to=date Princess who plays with boys, jumps, runs, climbs and does everything with fashion….

    And plays soccer like a Royal PRINCESS!!!