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</div>Few days back, I happened to see this book cover picture in one of the posts by LittleReader'sNook that they are going to read this book in their Story Session happening in Mumbai for "<b>Just for Laughs</b>" theme. I was impressed with this as I never used or taught those words to Medha. So I ordered this book online.<br />
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<div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Title :</b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/8189884964/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=3626&creative=24790&creativeASIN=8189884964&linkCode=as2&tag=httpmedhasmum-21" target="_blank">Icky Yucky Mucky</a></div></div><b>Author :</b> Natasha Sharma<br />
<b>Age :</b> 3+ years<br />
<b>Pages :</b> 32<br />
<b>Publisher :</b> Zubaan<br />
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<div><h3>Story?</h3></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is exactly what the title professes to be - ick, yuck and muck! A simple tale of King Icky and Princess Yucky, and how they met and get married, and their mucky daughter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div>The great king of Ickhtarpur, Maharaja Icky as he was called, was known to have the worst table manners ever seen. Basically this is a story about the dirtiest, ickiest king ever to be born, and his worst table manners, juggling rasogullas, speaking with his mouth full as he splutters food all over the table and drinks up his rose scented water from the fingerbowl.</div><div><br />
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Now King Icky has been on the lookout for a suitable bride but his manners have led to many a princess fainting on sight, which obviously doesn't portend well for the future of any marriage. And then fate introduces him to King Dukhiman's daughter Princess Yucky, artlessly hidden by a pile of her own bitten nails. King Icky falls madly in love with her, for who else but the Princess would understand him, and his true self. He asks for her hand in marriage, and King Dukhiman agrees and gets them married off immediately, lest King Icky changes his mind! <br />
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</div>Banned from using spoons or nail cutters, the people of Ickhtarpur are at their wits’ end. But their hopes rise when the announcement comes that the Maharani is expecting a little baby. But what happened at the end?? <span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;"> </span>Why the Kingdom of Ickhtarpur gives up all hope of ever being clean.<br />
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</div><div><h3>What young children will like?</h3></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Scrumptious Illustrations in each and every page.</li>
<li>Every bit of page and story makes you and your kids laugh. This is truly one of the most disgusting books I have read so far to Medha. </li>
<li>An absolutely delightful storybook which will be a sure-shot hit with young kids.</li>
<li>They will relate themselves with some of the naughty actions by Icky, Yucky and Mucky .</li>
<li>This book also talk about good habits and what are not good table manners.</li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"><h3></h3><h3>Medha liked it ?</h3><ul><li>She loved cover of the book in the first glance. And rasogullas at the back cover of the book.</li>
<li>She laughed at each picture in the book </li>
<li>She learnt some new vocabulary.</li>
<li>And since then we read this book, whenever she eats food, she talks about Maharaja Icky and his bad table manners. </li>
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I should thank Devaki and LittleReader'sNook for introducing me to this book.<br />
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~Medha is 3 years 2 months old~</div>
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I have been absent from my this little space for a while.... and the reason is Office, dead lines, releases.... I was too tired and occupied last month. But we didn't missed Thematic Learning. We missed to post only. Will post from today one by one theme.<br />
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Today I am going to post about the activities we did 2 weeks back on Bubbles. I know some of you might be laughing already that "Is Bubbles a thematic Unit? ", the answer is YES. We did it. I couldn't believe myself that we were able to do such many activities around bubbles. We hope you and your children enjoy learning and playing with the suggestions below!<br />
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Introduce Bubble Play to Your Kids</h3>
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Introduce bubbles to your kids if you haven't already. Right from Toddlers, every one loves bubbles. Isn't it?? </div>
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Before blowing real bubbles, teach the children how to "blow out" and not suck in. This can be done by practicing blowing skills with a plastic straw and feeling the wind on their hands. Do the children know how to blow gently? Children will quickly learn that only gentle blowing will produce bubbles.</div>
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Blow bubbles from a commercial bubble solution for the children either indoors or outside. First, ask the children to simply OBSERVE what the bubbles do in the air or when they land on something. Next, have the children try to catch a bubble with some part of their body. You can explain science behind it if your kids are elder. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Mix 1 cup of dish wash liquid with 6 cups of water in a large bowl. Add 1 table spoon of Glycerin (Got mine from medical store) to the above solution which makes the bubbles stronger. Tadaaa... </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Set!! </span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Ready!! Play!!</span></div>
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Children can develop motor skills, like eye/hand coordination, by playing "bubble catch." When the children play in pairs, one child blows a bubble and the other one catches it on a piece of cardboard. Then the children switch positions. </div>
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This is another activity to develop motor skills, like eye/hand coordination, "bubble burst." Blow the bubbles in a glass with straw and poke the bubbles using spoon or tooth pick or Popsicle stick to burst them.<br />
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Another fun movement activity is to "bubble dance." Play music in different tempos and invite the kids to pretend they are round bubbles floating around the room. They can spin and jump up and 'pop'!<br />
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Reinforce concepts while blowing bubbles using the words big, little, many, few, high and low. Ask questions like: Can you blow big bubbles? Little bubbles? Many bubbles? High bubbles? and so on.<br />
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Fill a container with bubble solution and add a few drops of food coloring. Ask the kid to use a straw and blow into the solution to create a cluster of bubbles. </div>
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Books we read On Bubble Theme </h3>
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In this book by Marie Hall Ets, a young boy and his playmate the wind, likes his soap bubbles. The wind carries his bubbles way up into the air for the sun to color and then blows them back down to the ground to make children laugh when they burst. Charm the kids, just like Gilberto with some intriguing activities below.<br />
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We are on Day 2 Road Transportation theme in which we mostly spoke about Car and Bus. And in continuation to the same theme today we did some more activities related to BUS.<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Whenever we talk about buses, Medha mostly talks about the yellow school buses she sees everyday on the way to her school. So I thought we will do some activity related to it. Friends, I didn't take step wise pictures, but I will make sure I explain in detail. </span></div>
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<li>3 Popsicle Sticks </li>
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<li>Trim an inch off 4 of the small craft sticks. (Means, I trimmed already trimmed ones) You can do this with a scissors. Lay them out vertically at equal intervals and glue the last small craft stick, which is not trimmed in this step, along the top. I used Fevicol. </li>
<li>Arrange the three larger craft sticks across the bottom. I overlapped the middle one a little because I liked it better that way. Glue them in place.</li>
<li>Cut two circles from black craft foam and I asked medha to stick her gold color large metal bindis which we got in some jewel craft kit. Attach them to the bottom of your school bus using glue.</li>
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Really cute and simple craft for our transportation unit. Medha enjoyed it a lot. We glued to the wall and then took the picture, hence background is white. :)<br />
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Though I planned some other activities like going down ramp and car tire tracking craft and roadway activity (which I prepared as shown in below pic) we didnt get time to do those. Will continue tomorrow.:) <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00106941939234140687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424307045319431380.post-23979551222005193472014-04-09T15:40:00.001+05:302014-04-11T23:54:25.689+05:30Road Transportation Theme - Day 1 - Thematic Learning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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~Medha is 3 years 1 month old~</div>
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We have completed our first theme <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/search/label/Summer%20Theme" target="_blank">SUMMER</a> successfully. I must mention that our second theme FARM is not that hit. Not sure of reasons, though Medha loves animals for some reasons, she didn't like this theme much. Guess, I should think of more interesting crafts and activities for this theme. As she didn't like this, I thought I will pause this theme for a while and proceed with a new one and come back to this after a while. </div>
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This time, I asked her which theme you wanted to pick? My options for her are " In the Kitchen" and "Transportation/Things that go". I guessed she may pick Kitchen but to my surprise, she chose Transportation. </div>
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So, here is our Day #1 of Transportation Theme. Mainly about Road Transportation. </div>
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Make Car with Cardboard</h3>
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<li>Medha colored it using some crayons. She want her car to be more colorful so it's combination of some colors. </li>
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Tadaaa... Our car is ready.. :) </div>
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Art-O-Wheels craft</h3>
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I bought Art-O-Wheels craft box sometime back. I felt that's perfect for this theme as it's something related to wheels craft, hence I took the box out to do the craft.</div>
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Kit comes with the four monster cutouts, that kid need to draw their own patterns and then paint with the colors and brush included. And then fix the wheels given to the cutout using screws and bolts. </div>
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I drew the patterns on a card and by seeing it, she wanted to do. Hence she drew few shapes on the cutout and then started painting with the colors as given for one of the sample picture given on the instructions sheet. And then I spoke about wheels and shaft. She inserted wheels in the shaft and inserted in the cutout. </div>
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She colored other cutouts also, but she didn't drew any patterns. She just colored them in her own way. And then she loved talking about wheels and tires. We also spoke about Flat Tyre (Puncture etc.). She recollected when she saw a flat tire first time. She saw it in our parking lobby and asked me why the tire was flat where as ours is round. That was the first time I spoke about flat tire and puncture and pumping air into tires etc.</div>
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I prepared this special activity for Medha. She loved it and although it was messy it was well worth it.<br />
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We read <a href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=b3jbxc8nNsAC&pg=PT1&lpg=PT1&dq=www.childrensbooktrust.com+runaway+wheel&source=bl&ots=UFURbYXXYE&sig=1GwhaOnuiBQvgKEvKwGkACK_OvI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tRtFU4jJDsPnsATIrIKYDQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=www.childrensbooktrust.com%20runaway%20wheel&f=false" target="_blank">Runaway Wheel</a> and <a href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=YgE7ZdrOc9IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Sheep+in+a+jeep&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8xtFU-74IafKsASmvoHoAw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Sheep%20in%20a%20jeep&f=false" target="_blank">Sheep In Jeep</a></div>
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We are on Day 2 FARM ANIMALS theme which is our second theme to learn more about Farm Animals. Yesterday we mostly spent time in reading books about Farm Animals and doing some coloring etc.<br />
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Firstly, sorry that I couldn't take pictures for each and every step today, but I managed few. It was the trip to gather these items. In the end the effort was well worth it because the sensory tub was a hit . Do not miss the post on <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/01/sensory-play-is-this-really-necessary.html" target="_blank">Sensory Play and It's benifits</a>.</div>
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We had some nice fun for 2 hours. We enjoyed doing it. After some time medha started writing letters in the rice. Wish I would've at least one tractor at home to include in the tub. </div>
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Sheep Craft 1</h3>
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<li>First free draw head of sheep and legs. If you have older kid, you can make them draw. For us, I drew on black construction paper. For legs I just chose rectangular shape and head I drew as follows. Either you can print this image or draw the following shape on a black paper and cut that shape. </li>
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We have completed our first theme successfully. And this time as per Medha's love for animals, we chose FARM ANIMALS as our second theme. I mentioned its Farm Animals as all the animals can't be covered in 3-4 days hence we thought we split it up. </div>
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Farming is important for our life. Farm animals produce many things for our life. In preschool farm animals theme children will learn how farm animals helps us. Who and how to take care farm animals. I mainly concentrating on following things : </div>
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Some of you may ask me, " Your daughter is already 3 years old, don't she know these yet?" - Yes, she knows some of these details already. But I wanted to talk about these as a theme - so we will talk about these things altogether. And also she will gain more confidence in what she knows by doing these theme based crafts and activities. Also when we do as per theme, kids get to hear lot of new words related to theme and their vocabulary gets improved. For example : tractor, barn, harvest etc.<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I first started with the theme by asking few questions like "What is farm?" and "What are farm animals?". Medha didn't know what is farm. But she knew what are farm animals. For second question she immediately replied saying "Hen, Duck, Cow, Goat". </span><br />
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To explain what a farm is - I doubted she may not understand fully if I explain it as an area of land used for growing crops and rearing animals. So I went ahead with simple explanation as " Farm is a place where animals live and work!! " </div>
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I wish we would've done a field trip to Farm before this theme. But I am not seeing that we can do in near future. </div>
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Animal Jigsaw Puzzles </h3>
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We have so many jigsaw puzzles at home. So I took out few puzzles on farm based animals. She loves the puzzles a lot. </div>
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I didn't have any coloring pages on PIG at home readily hence I drew PIG on a paper and gave her to color.<br />
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I think this is the first time she saw me drawing some pictures carefully with so much attention. :P She loved my drawing and said "Sooooperrr Amma , very nice" and then colored.<br />
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When it comes to crafts, I am really bad at it. I generally search for ideas in internet for her and make her doing them. But when it comes to farm animals, making animals with paper plates etc. is little difficult. So I decided to rely on worksheets and craft sheets available over net.<br />
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But as I don't have time to go out and get the prints, we did online only with some matching farm animals, picking odd one out in farm animals etc. from <a href="http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/worksheets/animals/farm/" target="_blank">AllKidsNetwork</a>.<br />
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Yayy!! We completed </span><a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/search/label/Summer%20Theme" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank">3 days</a><span style="text-align: justify;"> of our first theme SUMMER successfully.. Now we are on 4th day to learn about summer in fun way.</span><br />
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First we discussed about things what we did yesterday. And then started following new things after that. We thought we will do some crafts about Ice and Ice creams which are favorite to most of the kids and without which SUMMER can't be full.<br />
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Popsicle Ice Craft</h3>
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I was thinking of asking to make her Popsicle Ice with clay dough first. But I don't have many colored dough to make these. Hence I asked her to color paper with various colors and cut those in the form of Popsicle and glue to the ice-cream craft sticks. That's it. We have so many colored Popsicle stick ice with us now. :) Sorry I couldn't take the pictures while she was coloring and cutting the shapes. She is good in cutting straight but curves I did.<br />
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We made Red, Gold, Green, Blue and Brown color Popsicle Ices :) </div>
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I printed the coloring page of SUN from <a href="http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/Color_the_Summer_Sun/" target="_blank">education.com</a> and asked Medha to color it as she was more interested in coloring past a week. </div>
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Colored Ice Cube Painting Activity</h3>
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We bought Do It Yourself Goggle Making Kit from online facebook page and we made the goggles with it. It's super simple and cool activity. :) She made this with very minimal help from me and posed for a snap. </div>
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<li>We did Ice Melting activity again today but instead of Salt, we put the ice cube in a hot vessel and normal vessel to see which melted fast</li>
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And I didn't plan any activities related to water play or beach play as I felt those can be separate theme. </div>
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I think we are done with the activities we planned for this theme and closing SUMMER Theme by today. I agree that there can be lot of other activities planned for this theme. But I don't want too much at a time. Go Slow and make your kid happy and enjoy by end of the day. </div>
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Whooooo!! We are on Day #3 of Thematic Learning on Summer Theme. Check <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/03/summer-theme-day-1-thematic-learning.html" target="_blank">Day 1</a> and <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/03/summer-theme-day-2-thematic-learning.html" target="_blank">Day 2 </a>posts to see what activities we did.<br />
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Last 2 days we spoke about foods in summer and accessories we use in summer like Goggles, Umbrella etc.<br />
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Here is what we did?</h2>
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First we discussed about things what we did yesterday and day before. We talked about watermelons, and its taste and textures and shapes. And then how did we made watermelon slices etc. And we spoke about umbrellas and goggles etc.<br />
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Sun Craft</h3>
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We started with the craft of making Sun today as we realized that we didn't do this yet which I should've done on the first day itself. </div>
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<li>I asked Medha to color with SUN color on the paper. Then she brought Yellow color crayon and colored it. I didn't give paint instead I asked for crayons as coloring with crayons will take more time than paint. If you want this to be done quickly or if you want to skip this step, take yellow construction paper. </li>
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We read the book "The Rooster and the Sun" which is about Sun and importance of its light in the world.<br />
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Yayy!! We completed <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/03/summer-theme-day-1-thematic-learning.html" target="_blank">Day 1</a> of our first theme successfully.. Now we are on 2nd day to learn about summer in fun way. But as we went out for Bubble Ink 30 books 30 day challenge end up meeting in the morning and went out to Airport on some work in the afternoon we didn't do much when compared to yesterday. But I don't want to miss the post hence whatever we did blogging here. </div>
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Day #1 - we discussed mostly about food items in Summer and today we discussed about some of the accessories we use in Summer. <br />
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First we discussed about things what we did yesterday. We talked about watermelons, and its taste and textures and shapes. And then how did we made watermelon slices etc.<br />
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And on the way when we are going out, I asked how is she feeling either hot or cold? And then I asked what should we bring to protect from heat. First she said "sweater", :P I asked her how does a sweater helps in keeping you cool as you will be wearing the same in winter too.. then she thought for a while and she said we should bring a towel to cover our head from sun. I asked her to think what else we can use instead of towel. After thinking for some time she said "Umbrella".<br />
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Then we spoke about various designs available in umbrellas and colors we have seen so far either at our home or neighbors or relatives. And we started making our own umbrella.<br />
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We thought of creating our umbrella first with paper plate but later I decided to use normal paper as yesterday's watermelon slice craft we did using paper plate and also I want her to color instead of paint. </div>
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<li>And once the paper is colored in green ask the child to cut to make umbrella shape. As Medha is still progressing her skills in cutting curve shapes, I helped her in cutting into semi circle shape. </li>
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<li>And then I asked medha to take pipe cleaner and asked her bend little in the bottom part to make umbrella. To make her understanding what I am talking about, I showed our umbrella. She bent pipe cleaner little to make the shape. </li>
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If you want you can make this with cardboard for durability, but I preferred paper as she can try cutting the paper herself. <br />
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Also I actually planned as take another paper and color with different one and punch them into small shapes using design punches like Star, Flower etc and then glue it on this so umbrella looks more colorful. But as we were running out of time to go for Bubble Ink Challenge end up meeting, we had to wrap-up.<br />
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As it's Summer here, I thought this would be best theme to start with Medha. Of course this theme is not chosen as per her interest, but I felt this would be perfect one to start with as she can practically relate the things more. </div>
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Children are often curious about how things work and why things happen. Many times children notice the differences in climate and activities in each season and ask questions. Medha asked questions such as, "Why is it so hot?", "Why people are using umbrellas though it's not raining?" Then I told her that it's Summer Season and this is how it will be. <br />
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We discussed because of whom it is hot? She immediately replied SUN. And asked to keep cool yourself what do you do? She thought for a while and answered she will switch on FAN, and she eat some cool foods and drink lots of water. So I decided to start with the foods in Summer as first thing in the theme. </div>
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Ahh watermelons! They just speak summer don’t they? Summer days are hot and muggy and sometimes you need a little help cooling off. We did an activity to make watermelon slices using paper plate.</div>
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Now I will let the pictures talk about her happiness after doing this craft. She asked to give a watermelon piece to have. She gave poses with her own watermelon and real watermelon piece and asking " Amma, this is looking like real watermelon na? ".<br />
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<li>I gave her a piece of watermelon without the rind (outer green part of watermelon) and gave some plastic knife. And asked her to cut into small pieces. This is to improve her hand muscles strength and cutting skills. </li>
<li>Once she cut into pieces we made juice with it. She put the slices into blender and closed the lid and gave to mumma. Mumma fixed in the mixer grinder and Medha switched on and turned the knob to turn on. And also she served the juice for me into glass. </li>
<li>We spoke about the taste of watermelon i.e. sweet, crisp, and juicy flavor, and varieties of watermelons too. As we get to see two varieties here one with dark green skin and other light green with stripes.</li>
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<li>And also I told her that we can see SQUARE/CUBE watermelon in Japan. I also read that there are triangle, pyramid shape watermelons too. Then she asked me, "Ok, next time - you bring those shaped watermelons instead of this!!". :P </li>
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<li>We talked about Ice and ice creams also. We did Ice Making Activity - We poured water in a glass and kept in the refrigerator. And after some time we checked to see if Ice has formed. </li>
<li>And then we did Ice Melting Activity. We took 2 glasses in which we made Ice as above and mixed salt in one glass and we saw that the glass with salt melted faster than plain ice glass. She liked this activity a lot and requested me to repeat it tomorrow also. So hope I can get some pictures of this tomorrow. </li>
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Here are the themes I have decided so far for Medha. And expect for Summer theme, I really didn't gather any activities or ideas. </div>
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<u>Summer </u>- <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/03/summer-theme-day-1-thematic-learning.html" target="_blank">Day #1</a>, <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/03/summer-theme-day-2-thematic-learning.html" target="_blank">Day #2</a>, <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/04/summer-theme-day-3-thematic-learning.html" target="_blank">Day #3</a>, <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/04/summer-theme-day-4-thematic-learning.html" target="_blank">Day #4</a></div>
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Thematic approach is a way of teaching and learning, whereby many areas of the curriculum like language, math, sensory and practical life etc., are connected together and integrated within a theme.</div>
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A thematic approach to teaching involves integrating all subject areas together under one theme. It crosses over subject lines and helps children relate basic academic skills to real-world ideas. Thematic units are common in preschool classes especially, since preschool children learn through interactive, integrated activities. These themed units incorporate reading, math, science and social studies as well as the arts for a well-balanced curriculum.</div>
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In creating thematic units, teachers or parents should plan for one topic per week or month depending on the broadness of the theme. Units can be planned around a book, season of the year, or basic skill such as colors or letters. Another resource for theme ideas comes from the students themselves. Ask them to find out where their interests lie and plan a few units around those particular ideas. Once themes have been chosen, find learning center and hands-on activities to support the topic. Gather books about the theme to read. Study teacher resource books and websites for games and lessons that teach math, science and social studies skill as they relate to the theme. Plan art and music activities to include fine arts.</div>
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Choose a season of the year, such as fall, to use as your theme for the month. Spend time with activities that relate to changing leaves, pumpkins and apples. The alphabet provides 26 weeks of thematic units, one week for each letter, or use a color as the theme for the week. If your class is interested in the ocean, plan a unit that focuses on an ocean habitat. Children can read books about the ocean, play number and math games that involve fish and other sea creatures, and learn about how ocean animals live. The letter "O" can be introduced when discussing an octopus, and students can explore the properties of water at a water table learning center. Community helpers, shapes, Ocean, Kitchen, Seasons, Farm and transportation are other common preschool themes.</div>
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Why I chose this?</h3>
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Teaching thematically helps Medha make sense of what she is doing, since content areas are integrated and not made to stand alone. And will be able to retain more information when it is not presented as isolated facts, but rather as part of a whole. Also she will be able to relate to real-world experiences and build on prior knowledge of a topic.</div>
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Also, alphabets, numbers, counting, math all these are anyway will be taught in their school curriculum. I want her to know her practical life scenarios and facts about the world around her appropriate to her age.<br />
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So I can use her vacation to allow her exploring new things and new crafts and much more fun. Also, as a mother, I will have good idea what she know already and what else she can focus on and what areas she is yet to improve in terms of crafting, creative thinking, problem solving skills. </div>
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No, not at all. I don't have any knowledge of home schooling but I wish I would've known how to do and can do with Medha. I am just trying to make her learning new things, new words, vocabulary, and practical experience around theme all in fun way. </div>
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And I am planning to stick around the theme I chose as per Medha's interest for a minimum of hour per day. And each theme we are going to explore for 3 days minimum and if she's more interested will extend up to a week. </div>
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I had listed down few themes as of now around 6 themes which can be used for 3 weeks by considering 2 themes per week. And gather craft ideas around the net for the theme and read the books around the theme and explore the items/things around the theme practically. </div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">First, I will ask Medha if she knows anything about the theme i.e. SUMMER SEASON. If she knows, praise her. If she doesn't know, give little info about the theme and ask her what she thinks of it?</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Ask more questions like what do you see more in SUMMER? How do you feel in Summer? What people wear to protect eyes from SUN?</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Do some crafts around the theme like, make a watermelon, make an umbrella etc. You have to gather some materials for this. And at this age, they can't do all the crafts themselves so your time is needed. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Think of at least one simple do-at-home science experiment around the theme. For example: Summer Theme - Making Ice or Melting Ice.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Plan some pretend play around the theme. For Summer, I thought of Pretend Play - Ice cream Shop</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">This age kids will learn more with play and books - so gather some books around theme. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Print out some worksheets or activity sheets available in the net around theme and let her explore. </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Focus on one new word around theme on each day. By end of theme, she should learn 3 new words and use those words in her communication when and required. I will be having more scope over here as we use our mother tongue mostly at home. So I can introduce general words in English around the theme. For example: SUMMER theme can introduce Sandals (she knows only shoes and chappals) or TANK TOPS (Clothing in Summer) or water pool etc. </li>
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I don't know. But I have strongly decided to do, "where there is a will there will be a way", right? I hope I can stick to the plan and do. In each theme, if she learns one new word, one fact and can relate these with real time - enough for me. I would be more than happy. </div>
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I need all your blessings and God's blessings to do this without fail. Pray for us. If you also similar age group kids and wish to follow with this, do leave a comment. We will do and raise happy kids. </div>
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My next post will be list of themes I planned so far, as of now only 6, but will keep updating this post with more once we start with it. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00106941939234140687noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7424307045319431380.post-47187746670558684962014-03-19T19:41:00.001+05:302014-03-20T10:00:43.851+05:30Flinto : March Theme - I Love My Vegetables<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Vegetables and Nutrition is one of the tough topic when it comes to convincing the kids eating balanced food. I must say Flinto put all the activities very very well that are required to explain the importance of vegetables and their nutritional values and also importance of having them.<br />
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Sneak-peak of the "I Love My Vegetables" Theme Box contents from Flinto is here.<br />
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Activity #1 - Story Book - Where are my Carrots?</h4>
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A story about four friends, Flinto (Octopus), Venky (Monkey), Dolo (Deer), Cassie (Cassowary), all set to grow their own vegetables first time for healthy eating. Flinto gets Spinach seeds as it makes one strong, Venky gets Carrot Seeds as he loves crunchiness of carrots, Dolo gets seeds of Peas as they're so tasty and Cassie gets green beans seeds to make delicious salad with beans. They planted their seeds in the soil and water it daily. Soon their plants have grown. They tasted Cassie's beans, Dolo's peas, and Flinto's Spinach. But when they look at the place where Venky planted carrot seeds, there are long, green leaves but no carrots.<br />
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All four requests help from Sabina, the rabbit, to find out the missing carrots. Sabina helped them finding carrots by digging the soil. Soon all of them learnt that root vegetables like carrots, potatoes, beetroot will grow under the soil. You have to dig them out.<br />
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This 12 page book is well written and illustrated with beautiful pictures of all the animals and vegetables. Medha guessed that Flinto would find the missing carrots as he did in the previous books like Where are My Eggs? in Number theme box. She giggled out when she saw Sabina finding the carrots.<br />
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Activity #2 - My Garden</h4>
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This is beautiful activity for kids to grow their own window plant using the soil, seeds, and pot. Medha already knows about planting, watering the plants etc. as I am huge lover of gardening. But this one was done by her completely with no help from me.<br />
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She loved watering the seeds in the pot with the dropper given. She asked me " Amma, why don't you also use dropper to water your plants? I will ask Flinto Uncle to send one more for you but little bigger one." :) </div>
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Activity #3 - My Vegetable Family</h4>
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This is a Do it Yourself activity which is designed based on the concept of Sand Art. At home, we already did so many sand art activities right from she was 1 year old. She loves that craft. Of course this activity is not only sand art, it also includes creating artistic photo frame by sticking photos in the board given.<br />
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As Medha already knows Sand Art, without much explanation and help she completed the sprinkling the colored sand given on to the vegetable cutouts. And then we searched for our passport photos and found mine and hers. She glued the photos the Board given and also glued vegetable cutouts too. She didn't glued other two vegetable cutouts as she hadn't found her father's photo at home.<br />
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Activity #4 - Chew & Munch</h4>
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This is one of the best activity to make our fussy kids to eat all the vegetables for sure in a fun way. Kids get rewards for eating a balanced nutritious vegetables. They gamified healthy eating, and kids will chose healthy good for themselves to get more rewards.<br />
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Given food chart categorizes as "1-star, 2-star and 3-star" based on health value. Kid's have to get 23 stars in a week by eating different vegetables. They will track their progress using score cards and stickers given. At the end of the week, they will be eligible for the gift from gift box if they achieve the goal. </div>
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For Medha, this is not new as we did lot of rewarding with star stickers for good things she does. But the best thing that drew her attention is nicely wrapped Gift Pack. She started following the chart and rewards to see whats there inside. :) </div>
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But this girl is too smart that she planned her rewards count by eating the vegetables she likes only like carrots, corn, oats, Okra (Ladies finger) etc. Hence I customized this to make her eating the vegetables which she doesn't eat i.e. Bitter Gourd, Capsicum, Snake Gourd, Brocolli etc. </div>
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Activity #5 - Little Chef (Board Game)</h4>
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This is fun-filled board game, in which, kids work together to cook a soup by matching the ingredients cards. This we haven't played yet.<br />
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When I was thinking of books that are about "being YOURSELF" theme as part of The Bubble Ink - 30 Books in 30 Days challenge, I came across this book. When I read first time, I found this as a sweet story with funny and beautiful illustrations.<br />
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<b>Author :</b> Giles Andreae<br />
<b>Age :</b> 3-6 years<br />
<b>Pages :</b> 32<br />
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This is a story about a giraffe called Gerald who can't dance. With knees that are “awfully bandy” and a legs that are “rather thin,” Giraffe can’t seem to figure out how to make his body parts work together in order to dance. As a result, he gets teased by the other animals. After a devastating encounter at the local 'Jungle Dance' event, he is laughed out of town.</div>
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With the guidance of a wise and gentle cricket (grasshopper like insect) , and with new found confidence that different isn't always bad Gerald learns to listen to the sounds around him and to his own body, and is able to dance so well that the other animals are left in awe.</div>
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<li>If you've ever wanted to see or show warthogs waltzing, rhinos rock 'n' rolling, lions dancing the tango, and chimps doing a cha-cha to your kids, then this is the book for you.</li>
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<li>The delightful tale tells two vital morals to children; one being that where all different and we all have different abilities and another moral being that you shouldn't leave someone out because their different, you should treat them the same because there may be things you can’t do but they can.</li>
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<li>She laughed at the pictures showing animals doing all manner of unusual things.</li>
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<em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 17.563634872436523px;">"Excuse me!" coughed a cricket</em><br />
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<em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 17.563634872436523px;">"But sometimes when you're different</em><br />
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I must thank Falak for sending me this book as part of <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2013/12/review-my-little-chatter-box-tale-in.html" target="_blank">Tale In Mail </a>kit for Friends Theme. We are reading this book on Day #2 of <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/02/30-books-in-30-days-challenge-from.html" target="_blank">30 days 30 Books challenge</a>.<br />
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<b>Author :</b> P.D.Eastman<br />
<b>Age :</b> 3-7 years<br />
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<tr><td>1</td><td>Room On the Broom</td><td>Julia Donaldson</td><td>Macmillan Children's Books </td><td><a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2013/12/book-review-room-on-broom.html">Review</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>Big Dog Little Dog</td><td>P.D.Eastman</td><td>RHUS</td><td><a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/03/book-review-big-dog-little-dog.html">Review</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>Bear feels Ill</td><td>Karma Wilson</td><td>Simon & Schuster Childrens Books</td><td><a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/02/book-review-bear-feels-sick.html">Review</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>One Ted Falls Out of Bed</td><td>Julia Donaldson</td><td>PAN MACMILLAN INDIA </td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>Goodnight Gorilla</td><td>Peggy Ramnathan</td><td>G.P.Putnam Son's</td><td><a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2013/11/book-review-good-night-gorilla.html">Review</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>6</td><td>Handa's Surprise</td><td>Eileen Browne </td><td> Candlewick Press </td><td><a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2014/02/book-review-handas-surprise.html">Review</a></td></tr>
<tr><td>7</td><td>Monkey and Me</td><td>Emily Gravett</td><td>Mac Uk </td></tr>
<tr><td>8</td><td>Where is Gola Home?</td><td>Chitra Soundar</td><td>Tulika</td></tr>
<tr><td>9</td><td>Never Too Little to Love</td><td>Jeanne Wills</td><td>PAN MACMILLAN INDIA </td></tr>
<tr><td>10</td><td>Kat and Kit</td><td>Tomie, DePaola</td><td>Penguin USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>11</td><td>Bestfriends forever</td><td>Richa Jha</td><td>WISDOM TREE-NEW DELHI </td></tr>
<tr><td>12</td><td>Monkey Puzzle</td><td>Julia Donaldson</td><td>PAN MACMILLAN UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>13</td><td>The watermelon route</td><td>Quentin Greban </td><td>Jyotsna Prakashan </td></tr>
<tr><td>14</td><td>The Milkman's cow</td><td>Vidya Pradhan </td><td>CBT Publications</td></tr>
<tr><td>15</td><td>Just Like a baby</td><td>Juanita Havill and Christine Davenier</td><td>Chronicle Books </td></tr>
<tr><td>16</td><td>Born to Read</td><td>Judy Sierra</td><td>Knopf Books </td></tr>
<tr><td>17</td><td>Pranav's Picture</td><td>Nandini Nayar</td><td>Tulika</td></tr>
<tr><td>18</td><td>Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose</td><td>Julia Donaldson</td><td>PAN MACMILLAN INDIA </td></tr>
<tr><td>19</td><td>Penguin</td><td>Polly Dunbar</td><td>Walker Books</td></tr>
<tr><td>20</td><td>Chicken Licken</td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>21</td><td>The Bad Tempered LadyBird</td><td>Eric Carle</td><td>Penguin UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>22</td><td>"Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth </td><td>Eric Carle</td><td>Puffin Books</td></tr>
<tr><td>23</td><td>Hippo has a hat</td><td>Julia Donaldson</td><td>PAN MACMILLAN INDIA </td></tr>
<tr><td>24</td><td>No Matter What (Fox Book)</td><td>Debi Gliori </td><td>Kindle</td></tr>
<tr><td>25</td><td>I like it When</td><td> Mary Murphy</td><td>Red Wagon</td></tr>
<tr><td>26</td><td>Say Boo to the Animals</td><td>Ian Whybrow</td><td>Macmillan Children's Books </td></tr>
<tr><td>27</td><td>What makes a rainbow?</td><td>Betty Ann Schwartz </td><td>Piggy Toes Press</td></tr>
<tr><td>28</td><td>Carduroy</td><td>Don Freeman </td><td>Puffin Books</td></tr>
<tr><td>29</td><td>Purple Jojo</td><td>Sameera Zia Qureshi </td><td>Tulika</td></tr>
<tr><td>30</td><td>When a duckling is scared</td><td>Shyamala S</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>31</td><td>Toy Horse</td><td>Deepa Agarwal</td><td>CBT Publications</td></tr>
<tr><td>32</td><td>Where's that Cat?</td><td>Manjula Padmanabhan</td><td>Tulika</td></tr>
<tr><td>33</td><td>Feet Problems</td><td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>34</td><td>Guess how much I love you</td><td>Sam MacBratney</td><td>Walker Books</td></tr>
<tr><td>35</td><td>Postman Bear</td><td>Julia Donaldson</td><td>Acorn wood</td></tr>
<tr><td>36</td><td>Mallipoo Where are You?</td><td>Radhika Chadha</td><td>Tulika</td></tr>
<tr><td>37</td><td>Ekki Dokki</td><td>Sandhya Rao</td><td>Tulika</td></tr>
<tr><td>38</td><td>What Shall I make?</td><td>Nandini Nayar</td><td>Tulika</td></tr>
<tr><td>39</td><td>Party Animals</td><td>Kathie Lee Gifford </td><td>Perseus Books</td></tr>
<tr><td>40</td><td>What did you see?</td><td>Nandini Nayar</td><td>Tulika</td></tr>
<tr><td>41</td><td>Up Down</td><td>Vinayak Varma</td><td>Tulika</td></tr>
<tr><td>42</td><td>If you give a pig Pancake?</td><td>Laura Numeroff</td><td>Harpercollins </td></tr>
<tr><td>43</td><td>Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see?</td><td>Eric Carle</td><td>Penguin UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>44</td><td>Watch Out</td><td>Shamim Padamsee </td><td>Tulika</td></tr>
<tr><td>45</td><td>Mala's Silver Anklets</td><td> Annie Besant </td><td>Tulika</td></tr>
<tr><td>46</td><td>Kangaroo's Cancan Cafe</td><td>Julia Jarman </td><td>Orchard</td></tr>
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Though it's for 30 days, I noted down around 40 books in the list as I can use them if she is interested to read more books on any day. Some of these books are reviewed here in my blog. And also I prepared this list with the books what we have at home only.<br />
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And I also decided to take this opportunity to make sure I review each book we read everyday. Please participate in this challenge, get inspired by fellow moms who are reading and start reading to your kids also everyday without fail.<br />
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I must thank Devaki from <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2013/11/review-little-reader-nook.html" target="_blank">Little Reader's Nook</a> for recommending this book in her story sessions. Not only Medha, even I loved this book a lot. This is such cute and sweet story. You must not miss this book for your kids.<br />
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<b>Author :</b> Eileen Browne<br />
<b>Age :</b> 2-6 years<br />
<b>Pages :</b> 32<br />
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This is a story set in an African village, is about a little girl, Handa, who decides to visit her best friend Akeyo with a basket full of 7 different fruits as surprise. But as she walks to Akeyo's village she has to pass through a jungle, carrying basket on her head, Handa contemplates which fruit Akeyo will like the best.<br />
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However, each time Handa thinks about a certain fruit an animal pops along and steals that particular fruit. A monkey takes the banana, an ostrich the guava, a zebra the orange, an elephant the mango, a giraffe the pineapple, an antelope the avocado and a parrot the passion fruit. Handa walks on, wondering which of the fruits her friend will like best, oblivious to the fact that her basket is now empty.<br />
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Unaware that various animals have taken these tropical fruits, Handa continues along her journey, at which point a goat bumps into a tree and a bunch of tangerines fall into Handa's basket which was empty by then. After reaching Akeyo's village, she greets her friend and tells her that. she've brought her a surprise. But when she lifts off her basket, it's Handa who gets the biggest surprise. Much to Handa's Surprise Tangerines are Akeyo's favorite fruit. <br />
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Despite my best intentions, I never could get myself to blog on a regular basis due to my work commitments and personal as well. I am well aware that blogging is one of the best ways to record all the activities we do and books we read.<br />
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This year I resolved to blog more and, luckily, I had a little help. The recently started a blog about book reviews, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/618042888269583/" target="_blank">The Bubble Ink created "30 books in 30 Days" challenge</a> that challenged participants to read a book daily for 30 days. Please read the more details <a href="http://bubble-ink.blogspot.in/2014/02/30-books-in-30-days-bubble-ink.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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The next post will be the list of books that we are thinking to read during this challenge which is tentative list. We may change the book to read based on Bubble Ink recommendations or Medha's interest. And I am preparing this list as it helps us in identifying what books we have and what we read already and what can we read during challenge. Keep watching this space and please participate in this challenge to raise readers in your home. :) </div>
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And I am extending this challenge to make sure I review the book I read in the challenge. So "30 Book Reviews in 30 Days challenge", I must say. Looking forward for this challenge to see what others are reading and getting some good recommendations of books for Medha from fellow moms. </div>
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It's not even a week we celebrated Medha's third birthday last week on 19th, (sorry separate post is on the way on how we celebrated her birthday) - She gave me a big surprise yesterday with a great gift.<br />
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She made her own greeting card from the book gifted by her dear neighbor aunt, Meryl, which is about craft tasks that kids can do of Level 3. And when I asked her whom this card is for, she said its for AMMA.<br />
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Then just simply I said, write my name on it by mentioning TO. I pronounced it as "T - O, TO" and in the new line my name "LEELA". She knew the spelling of my name except that sometimes she don't mention double E - "LELA". She took it seriously and got a crayon and started writing it.<br />
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Why would you need crayons, pencils, paper, white board to draw when you can have more fun with Salt Tray! Draw pictures, write letters, create patterns, and practice writing names with this simple tray.<br />
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Before introducing the salt tray as a name or letter writing activity, I let Medha spend time exploring the salt trays in different ways like scooping, pouring, and moving the salt around in other ways and with other tools.</div>
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A, C. D. E, F, H, I, L, M, O, P, T, U, W, X. She was thrilled to write in the salt as I guess she is bored of writing them on her books and white board. :) Apart from the letters which are having more curves, she is able to write rest of them. Ofcourse she still need some more practice. </div>
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And also we did pattern making in salt tray (Sorry I don't have the pictures) I made a pattern on a paper and asked her to do the same in Salt Tray. Write on a paper One circle, One Line, One Circle, One Line. (O|O|) something like this and ask them to write the same in salt tray. You can try various patterns like this. </div>
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On a lighter note, for people who are wondering why no posts more than a week, thanks for thinking about me. I was not keeping well, with office and kid's work I couldn't get time to manage blogging a post.</div>
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The people who follow my blog from beginning they already know that I believe <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education" target="_blank">Montessori Curriculum</a> which basically allows kids to learn on their own pace. And in this, kid learns everything with play. </div>
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I can proudly say that whatever Medha learnt till date, it's purely by PLAY. I never asked her to recite /read aloud any letters, numbers or any things. I just planned few activities from the ideas I got from various websites and other internet resources etc. She learnt all her letters, numbers, counting, sorting, and whatever she knew now is purely by PLAY. That much I love MONTESSORI. </div>
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And to continue same in her early years of education, we decided upon few Montessori Schools and joined her in Roots Montessori, IndiraNagar, Bangalore. But as montessori starts at 2 years 6 months, Medha is little late for Mont 1. (Nursery in usual terms) hence after speaking with management, I joined her in the school from Feb 1st itself. So that she can do the Mont 1 activities for another 6 months until she is 3.5 years and can continue to further levels. </div>
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So far a week, Medha cried on the first day though school is not a new thing for her (she was going to a play school from past 7 months) as she was seeing all new faces. She was in school only for half an hour and then we came back. </div>
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But after coming home, I told her that it's similar to her old school. My Little baby, I don't know how much she understood. But she didn't cry even once from second day. She loved the school as they have various varieties of Montessori toys. Way to Go Medha!! Hope you will love this school much more and enjoy your schooling. :) </div>
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I must thank Devaki for sending me this book as part of February theme, Love Makes Our World Go Round, subscription kit from <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/2013/11/review-little-reader-nook.html" target="_blank">Little Reader's Nook</a>.<br />
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<b>Author :</b> Karma Wilson<br />
<b>Age :</b> 3-7 years<br />
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<b>Publisher :</b> Simon & Schuster Childrens Books<br />
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The story is all about a bear who feels sick and how his friends take good care of him and comfort him as best they can until he begins to FEEL BETTER.<br />
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On a windy, autumn day and Bear in his cave feeling awful; sneezing, achy and all stuffed up. His friends, Hare, Mouse, Badger, Gopher, Mole, Raven, Owl and Wren come over to play only to find that their friend has a cold. They all pitch in to help take care of Bear. They build a fire, feed him broth and wipe his head with a cool, wet cloth. The birds go gather herbs so that mouse can make tea and they tuck him in, all cozy and warm. <b><span style="color: orange;">“The friends fuss and fret. The friends cook and care. They keep a close eye on their poor sick Bear.”</span> </b>They walk around on toes, whisper and softly sing until finally poor bear falls asleep.The next morning Bear wakes up and he’s all better, only to find that his friends are now all sick! Bear tells all his friends, “You’ll soon feel like new. You took care of me…now I’ll take care of you.”</div>
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Last week, we are talking about Farm Animals a lot, then I was searching for some simple books that involved animals, then I came across this simple yet beautiful book from Tulika Publishers.<br />
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<b>Author :</b> Manjula Padmanabhan<br />
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The story is all about a cute little girl, Minnie, comes home from school and can’t find her pet cat Pooni. She goes into the garden but Pooni doesn't come when she’s called! Minnie asks people all along the action-packed street if they've seen the cat. Minnie is upset as she couldn't find her Pooni. As per teacher advice, she returns back to home with sad face. By the end there is general relief from everybody both inside and outside the book. Pooni has the last word – “Prrr” – and the final illustration shows Minnie cuddling Pooni, who is no doubt completely unaware of the trouble she has caused. </div>
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To improve her finger muscle strength and her fine motor skills, I have thought of this activity and she spent nice 2 hours of time with this.<br />
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I gave her a batch of play dough and the plastic mould trays I received as part of Mould n Paint Kit by ToyKraft and asked her to make the moulds with play dough.<br />
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<li>Working with clay improves dexterity and uses both small and large muscles. Children use their arms, back and shoulders to mold clay. </li>
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<li>Self-pride of creating shapes using the molds. </li>
<li>Filling the molds gives enough exercise to the fingers and hands.</li>
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This can be tried with younger kids too with the supervision of not putting clay in the mouth. </div>
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<i>The Splendid Sites feature is designed to help you find fun and safe websites to visit with your toddler and kids. Some of the sites are educational in nature and some are just plain fun! If this is your first time visiting, be sure to check out <a href="http://medhasmummusings.blogspot.in/search/label/Splendid%20Sites">some of the toddler websites</a> that we've featured in the past.</i></div>
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Little Fingers is a website that develops software for children PreK up to 5th grade. While the company has a lot of software that you can purchase, they also have some fun games that you can play for free online.</div>
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There are <a href="http://www.littlefingers.com/games/games1.html" target="_blank">some cute games that are ‘samples’</a> or one from a series of games that Little Fingers offers.</div>
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I played around in the Hat Shop first. You are shown some hats and then given a few other hats and asked to put them in the display. “Put the red hat under the purple hat, etc…” It’s a great game to help learn different directional words {above, below, left, right, and next to}.</div>
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Another fun game is the colors game. Children listen for the color word and then look for the fish that is that color to swim across the screen. When they see the right fish, they have to click on it and then are asked to find another fish.<br />
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There are several other games on the site that you might have fun playing with, so hop over and check it out. If your little one enjoys the games, you might be interested in the <a href="http://www.littlefingers.com/#parlor" target="_blank">Game Parlor</a> that you can download to use without needing an internet connection {$19.99}.<br />
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