Lievell

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

12:00 AM

Fritz : 17th months

Fritz : 17th months
Happy sweet 17th months!

Same days 17th months ago, Wednesday...

This month, he really shows lots of developments.

Now, he is able to recognize some icons; Carrefour, Giant, Hypermart, Hoka Hoka Bento statues, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bear in A&W, and few more...even I forgot to remember those....;p
He will point when he sees them along the way.

During his visit to one of hypermarket, he likes to take a thing that he had shown in the advertisement. One time, he could recognize Skippy Jam in the Alfa Midi when accompanied Poppa hunting some stuffs. Next, he took Milkuat Milk and insisted to bring them (he took 2 bottles) to the cashier and I had to pay those. Other times, he took a Pulpy Orange and again I had to pay in the cashier. In the end, he even didn't really like those things.

Most of all, he understands the orders we say to him. Some times, he wants to help me to do some chores, such as put the clothes to the laundry basket after taking a bath or throw the litter to the dust bin. Even, he ,with his awareness, threw the litter when he saw it in the floor. Nice boy, huh!

And some times, he can show his bad attitudes. Refused to take a bath in the afternoon by waving both of his hands and continuing his activities or even refused to wear his pajamas in the night because he felt so hot. He really doesn't want to wear it. If I put in, he always pulled his pants up till his thigh or pull one of his sleeve up.

He really a neat boy. No crumbs in his mouth or hands during eating time. If there is something messy in the table, he will wipe it with the tissue.

He is also a proper boy. He always reminds us to do something in proper ways.

One time, his Poppa wore his shirt untidy. He pull up half of his shirt on his belly because of the hot day. Then, Fritz pointed to his Poppa and asked him to put the shirt down and wore it properly.

Other case, we can't put off our sandals, he will asks us to put on again. If Opa takes off his eyeglasses for a moment to wipe his sweat, he will insist Opa to wear it again. He will stop grumbling if everything is done properly. That's Fritz!

He does what the elder do!

When I cook, he wants to see what I cook. When someone go with car, he wants to follow. When he wants to watch movie, he will try to turn on the DVD player by himself.

Truly copycat!

Pretend feeding his toys using spoon like I feed him.
Laughing like me with a big open mouth and cover it with hand.
Greeting when someone is going home by raising up his hands and saying "aaaaaaahhh" means "hi"

He is so close with his Opa. Likes to play along with Opa in his upper room and ask Opa to turn on his fave TV channel, Playhouse Disney and let Opa not to watch other channel. Opa is pampering him much.

He is also close with his Poppa. During teaching time, Poppa is taking care of him. Play along or doing afternoon walk with him. See a dog in the church or just see some oxes in the back side of our residential complex. Bathing him and feeding him. What a nice moment between dad and son!

He is babbling much nowadays. The clear words are "go-go", "oop" for stop, "baa" for peek a boo. That's all.

He loves appraisal. He shows it by showing his two thumbs as good sign.

Other bad attitudes are he doesn't want to share his belongings but he wants to take the others. He also doesn't want to play along with the younger and prefer playing with the elder. Next job of me to maintain these attitudes in his social life.

He's getting bigger and bigger now. He can drink UHT milk, the chocolate flavor ones. He also consumes vitamin everyday to complete his nutritious. He's taller. All of his clothes are getting tightly and also with his pants. I really need to buy the new ones.

My boy is really growing up now. I really can't wait to see him jumping, running, talking and screaming.

Monday, August 23, 2010

12:15 AM

Discovering New Things

Discovering New Things
Two days ago, Friday, I just realized that Fritz has discovered new things. He loves to moves his toes under his socks.

When we went to Hypermart at Mall Matahari, BSD, suddenly he asked me to take off his left shoe and refused to put in again. Then he moved his toes under his socks in the middle of our shopping time!

I had to put him into the trolley because of his refusing. Here's the photos...

Sunday, August 22, 2010

12:56 AM

Simply-hood

Simply-hood

Presents...

Simply-hood!!

It's my new home-education's logo.

Simply-hood is my home learning education based on Montessori method. I take some teaching ideas from some American creative moms' blogs who also teach their own children. They are so creative with their ideas in teaching and really insipiring me to do as well as they do to their children.

With my simple things that I have, I'm trying my best to educate Fritz. I'm going to accompany him to explore and discover lots of new things around him.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

11:38 PM

Colors : Red and Blue

Colors : Red and Blue
Red Day
I had bought a drawing book and also had printed out the things in red. Such as red shirt, red shoe, red car, red short pants, red cellular phone and red bag. Then I cut it into pieces.

I asked Fritz to scribble the crayon on his drawing book with red crayon. After that, I applied some glue on the pictures and I gave to Fritz to paste it on his book. He didn't want to paste it actually, so I helped him to do it and told him the things I pasted.

In the end of this project, I replied again the red things on his drawing book. Hopefully, he will be able to recognize RED next.

Blue Day

Things in Blue are Blue Butterfly, Blue Spoon, Blue Fork, Blue Bottle, Blue Bowl, Blueberries, Blue bird and Blue Jeans.

I asked Fritz to apply blue paint and blue crayon in his drawing book. Firstly, he refused to paste the things. For the last 2 things, he wanted to paste it by himself.

In the end, I replied again the things he has pasted by pointing to the things.
11:24 PM

Simply-hood Plans

Simply-hood Plans
I'm trying to make a simple schedule for Fritz.

Here there are:

Every week, I have to prepare 3 trays of Practical Life's things and 3 activities; Toys, Books and Movies. The Practical Life contains Pouring, Transferring, Sorting and Open-Close activities. And the activities contains 3 toys he has to play, 3 books he has to read and 3 movies he has to watch on that week. So he will not play with the same toys, read same books and watch same movies. Some ideas are taken from here.

Everyday he will learn a different lesson.
Monday-Alphabet
Tuesday-Colors
Wednesday-Numbers
Thursday-Shape
Friday-Science/Art & Craft

Alphabet - every week, I will prepare a print out of Alphabet and I'm going to ask Fritz to color it. After 26 weeks, I'll cut the alphabet and I'm going to make like this (at that moment, Fritz is in Pre Nursery stage). Then here will be the next project. Other activities are tracing the Alphabet (in the middle of Pre Nursery or Nursery stage), playing puzzle and coloring pages of Alphabet things.

Colors - I had done some colors' project. I prepared the drawing book and asked Fritz to paint it with the related colors and stick some things related. I just continue this project for some weeks. I took the ideas from here. Then I'm going to do sorting and matching the things with the colors. For the worksheet, I'll take from here.

Numbers - introducing the numbers by coloring the numbers itself, 10 weeks. Then do some coloring numbers with the things and paste things related to the numbers as the art and craft projects. Next, do some worksheet I had such as tracing the numbers and simple math. I have tons of math worksheet.

Shape - as same as numbers and alphabet's worksheet. Firstly, I'll give shape's coloring pages. For the rest activities, I'll see from here and here. Some worksheet and activities will follow next.

Science - simple experiment such as hot and cold, tasting, smelling, heavy and light, sinking and floating, rough and smooth, etc.

Hopefully it can work well and GOD will lead me to be more creative day by day. (also lead me to be not lazy and consistent with what I do)