Karis is practicing clapping her hands like the seal!
Learning with Karis is such a joy! This week has been full of canning produce for the winter, and thus not a whole lot of time to devote to our beginning learning projects, but I have been amazed how much she can learn without a whole lot of effort. I love observing her enjoyment for reading. She is constantly looking at books and choosing her favorites. What a blessing to have a local library full of wonderful resources to draw from!
This week her favorite has been From Head to Toe by Eric Carle. I estimate I have read this to her at least a half dozen times each day this week! I have it all memorized now but how can I refuse her little pleading moans while she holds the book and hits it on my legs? The result…she is learning many different animals and the actions they do. This is a great resource for teaching physical actions, such as “the gorilla thumps his chest” and then it asks the reader “can you do it?” With each one we have been demonstrating these actions to Karis. She loves it and is learning to preform them amazingly well!
Secondly, she has been exploring the piano with great enthusiasm this week. Even if you just have a keyboard of some sort, or a simple drum, this is fun way to expose them to exploring with making their own music. Thankfully my piano has a quiet pedal to keep the tone down, but she will sit there and just bang around for quite awhile. Headphones would be a nice feature for a keyboard and little ones!
Lastly, even at just 16 months of age, she has found a new interest in sitting on the counter next to me and help preparing food. This week she started mixing batter for me with a mixing spoon. I was pleasantly surprised!
I love how simple learning can be so much fun, free and simple without too much planning and preparations!
ALL of my children STILL love that book and the oldest is 9! You are such a good mommy, I pray that God blesses you and your hubby with many, many beautiful blessings!
My kids also love that book. The two older ones (5 and 3 years) will stand there and wait for me to turn the page so they can do the next movement. My daughter yells out the next animal sometimes before I can even turn the page
The cutest thing is the baby trying to imitate what he sees his sister and brother doing.
I wish I had started this early with my daughter. We started official homeschool this year, but never put a thought into teaching her myself until last year. Home learning is a good way to put it! I love the activities you do with your daughter!
God Bless!
Shellie
We have that same book my kids love it. Benjamin who is also 16 months is really getttng into reading as well he will bring books to you and want to crawl in your lap and read them it’s so cute!!
My daughter checked this book out from the library last week and loved it. She still comes up to me and says, “Look mommy, I bend knees like a giraffe.” I am amazed everyday at how much toddlers soak in.
Ah, yes, “Head to Toe”…
That was our book a couple weeks ago, and I was so glad to return it at the end! It quickly became a favorite. But it was great for the kids that met at my house for “Mom’s Group;” they all had so much fun doing the motions!
The twins keep moments like this a bit more of a challenge, but just as fun and surprising none the less
On a side note, I’ve tried a couple time to read your post on simplifying your wardrobe, part two and keep coming up with a blank page. I’m not sure if it’s your blog or my computer, but I read part one and would really like to read more. Would it be possible for you to email the post to me?