02 October 2020

Bloxera. 2019


We were playing Bloxera and joined a competition. 

Timmy build this Simpson using bloxera. 
Papa joined the built too. 

Photo was taken in 2019. 
Tim was around 14 years old. 

Rabbit. 2019


We were reading the book from the Shimajiro friends, 
there is a rabbit. 

And when we went for the morning walk, 
Andrew liked to visit the Aquamarine Utara no. 20,
 because there is rabbit there. 

We then also brought out the rabbit soft toys, Andrew then can feel the rabbit fur is soft
and compare real life rabbit to those in the book and soft toys. 

This was taken in 2019. 
Andrew was about 2years old. 

Math Play . 2019.


Photo was taken when we were in Aquamarine. 

We were learning numbers, making number rod with the bloxera bricks, learned the chinese words for numbers and learning through play. 

Andrew really like to learn and play with Mama. 


In this photo, Andrew was 2 years old. 
2019.

01 October 2020

Sensory Play . Sept 2020

This was when we were in Indonesia. 

Photo was taken in September 2020. 
Andrew was 3 years old. 

WE made the sensory bin and filled it with animals. 
Then we read the words and pretend play. 

Helping Ma with Laundry. 2020.

I always love it when the children were helping me with chores. 

Andrew loves to help me with the laundry washing since he was very young. 
As young as 2 years old. 

In this photo, maybe Andrew was around 3 years old. 
He can helped me to put in the dirty clothes into the washing machine, 
pick up those dry clothes into the basket. 

Mama always lift and hugged Andrew through the first step, because it was steep. 
He would then go down the stairs by himself. 

I love you Andrew. 


Thank you for helping Mama with daily chores. 

Photo was taken in our Aquamarine home. Indonesia 





Cousins. 2020.

We were at Thomson, Gading Serpong. 

Andrew, John and Julia were having fun with each other. 
Photo was taken in 2020. 

Cooking. Kembang Tahu.


Andrew helped to cook while we were still in Aquamarine. 
He was 3 years old. 


2020

Before the baby bed was dismantled for Martha. 2020. 

We were in Aquamarine Selatan. 

2020


We were at Thomson, Hans's house. 
Celebrating birthday. 

Andrew was 3 years old. 

Cutting Practice

Cutting Practice.

I created these few weeks ago, but Andrew only wanted to do bits and pieces, here and there. 

Today, he wanted to try again. 

Should you wish to make one, here's what I did. 
1. Draw on the back of used paper, using color marker. 
You can draw anything. Such as circles, squares, hearts, grapes, anything. 
I made it colorful, so it's more interesting for the kid. 

2. Have the child to cut it. 

3. After it's being cut, your child can blow it. Blowing is a good activity to develop their oral muscle. 

We discovered this blowing accidentally, when Andrew breathe into it. Hahaha...

I was watching the live session by @montessori_haus_asia and Miss Rosa was explaining that cutting is also one of the great pre-writing activity. Thank you Miss Rosa. 😁💕

#learnthroughplay
#andrewwidj44months 
#Cutting #cuttingpractice. #finemotorskills

Coffee Sensory Play

Sensory Play with Coffee Powder.

Originally I thought that this was for the boy to learn to write. I put it on the floor and the boy discovered it. 

He started playing with it, grasp the coffee, smelling it, smear his fingers. Eventough it's dirty, he kept going. 

We added the animal toobs, to make it more fun. 
I drew lines and wrote letters. 

Then we pretend that the lines are road, and the animals lined up. 

We counted how many animal are there?

Then Andrew pretended that he was baking chocolate muffin. Then the animal started eating it. 
Some animals are in the muffin and some are waiting. 

I asked him, which one is more? The ones inside or outside?

When Mama turned away for a while, Andrew fetched a glass of water and pour it into the tray. 

Ahhh....

Oh well, might as well we made muddy puddle. 

Then we will have to bath the animals. 

....and Mama needs to sweep and mop the floor. Hahahaha..

Yeah, that's our stories of play today 

#andrewwidj44months 
#sensoryplay #sensorybin #learnthroughplay #playideas