010 week 1 stop animation and stickers dinosaurs

Week 1 progress - Keanu made some stickers which we are still waiting to receive.  The stickers are drawings of different dinosaurs.  

And Keanu also made his space movie 2 with few words and special effects. You can watch it below. 

School Online or In Person - New City, New learnings

 Its going to be 2 months since we relocated to Toronto, and as the pandemic seems to be evolving and lockdown increasing, K (little human) joined Virtual school.  It has been a bag of mixed feelings, coming from Montessori background and now trying to tell him see your screen, are you paying attention to what they are saying, it all feels so contradictory to what we had been focussing on. 

For K give him Lego and sit next to him, he is all sorted for endless fun.

From next week he would be able to go in person, I am excited and concerned at same time, like am sure many others here! I want him to make friends, want him to play and learn, but its going to be such different experience as they have to wear mask on for all the time except eating and for small mask breaks! They have be to away from each other. We are going to see how his first week goes and take it from there, if it doesnt wok out we will be focussing on Homeschooling.  What are you doing? Are you sending your child in? Do you feel nervous about all this. 

More I think more I realize kids are much quicker in adjusting and maybe all this will work out?!

Fooling around with Textures

 

I have realised, my pictures of time spent with Special K are more of process documentation rather than finished products. I love the process and especially to know how engrossed a kid can be with simple activities. Being a full time stay/work at home mum, comes with its challenges but amazing blessings as one can spend time with their little ones. Monetarily wise few months might have gone as an adventure but getting those wonderful questions, cute smiles always win. Though I want people to know there are times I  lose my patience and end up  reminding myself that this phase is not going to last long. So Enjoy and Learn.

Here we are using treasures found in our walks along with play doh accessories on air dry clay.. we created few paper weights.

Creating Tunnels

I might have mentioned earlier Special K loves Clocks, Cars,Trains,Dolls House and Cooking. One of the cold mornings, I had to dip thru my Pinterest board to try an activity that could give me atleast few 20 mins so that I could do few admin work. This was great. The original activity link here https://mamapapabubba.com/2018/07/09/easy-paper-tunnels-for-little-car-lovers/

I had few foam board/cards left from foam sticker pack from Wilko. Always keep a bag of crafty stuff nearby, one never knows what can come handy.

Special K played with it till his big cars got stuck and Lego man didn't want to come out of the tunnel. We varied the shape a bit so that it keeps him engrossed, Made the line straight, lined the tunnels up near to edge of the table..etc etc.

Looking forward to Spring

We have been enjoying looking at daffodils and various other flowers coming out, Lil one loves looking at them, smelling them. So this activity seemed perfect to keep him busy for few minutes and learn about seeds. We used some egg cartons, got some compost, seeds and started planting.

Everyday we look at the growth of little seedings which such a joy.

Our Miss Cornflower was the quickest to show , then cherry tomatoes. Lets see what comes up 

next:-) Need to see what are we going to do one these are all ready to be potted.....

Lil one enjoyed spooning compost in the egg cartons and then planting the seeds.A pretty easy and soothing activity to do if your lil one still likes eating earth or small things then maybe don't introduce this activity yet.

Make Believe City

So far we have been very lucky to have both of us (parents) work from home most of the time, we cherished the times that we got to spent with little one. Few days we had bright ideas, few days none, few days were filled with teary eyes while others were filled with cuddles and more cuddles.

After he turned 2 years, it got bit more exciting, he is amazing at communicating and so fun to be with. The main thing that puzzles me is that he is really into trains, cars and trucks without any kind of encouragement from us. We have always been very conscious of getting gender equivalent toys or stories etc.

I love playing trains with him, though his Grandmom really showed me that he has was ready to make train stops and take it much further. Experience is a wonderful thing most of the time.
Here we are using Blocks and Trains to make a believe city, Taking a Gorilla on a ride with ticket. He is 2 and couple of months, we love ikea train tracks and mega blocks along with lego blocks.