What Is Tot School, see post ‘Tot School’ . How/Why I started the Curriculum below, see post “17th Week“.

This was what Darius learnt at 19months Wk 3 & 4. The 23rd & 24th Week Since This Started.

Date: 01 Mar 2010 – 14 Mar 2010

Theme of the Week, Lesson 6 : Rainbow

Rainbow is a common natural occurence in many children’s books so I thought he should start learning about them. Besides, he could also learn about colours at the same time. I was busy with childcare preparation so we started with the materials quite late and ended up doing this theme for two weeks. We did not manage to do Number Learning too.

• Word: Colour| Colour: Green | Letter: G | Nursery Rhyme: The Owl and The Pussycat
  

Read on for details below: Long Post With Photos Ahead

So the Lesson 6 – Rainbow Went Like this:

Monday: Theme -Rainbow, Vocabulary Word- Colour was introduced using pictures, a song, a storybook, a poem. Showed him the laminated picture of a Rainbow. Show him a picture of a Colour Wheel.

The Storybooks Read:We read a lot of stories about Rainbows for the two weeks.

23rd Week: 1) Nusery Rhyme – Rainbow, 2) Bamboo & Friends -The Rainbow, 3) Colors, 4) Shapes

The Nursery Rhyme book isn’t really about rainbows but the different colours present in well-known Nursery Rhymes but the illustrations are nice to look at. The Rainbow presented by the Panda, Bamboo is information book presenting real facts about ‘How Rainbows Appear’ in a cute cartoony way. He doesn’t quite understand though but the illustrations of the rainbow on every page gave him some ideas about the rainbow. Colours is to help enforce the concept of colour to him. And he like the Book of Shapes by Gymboree, especially ‘Heart’. He recognised it and says, “art…”

24th Week: 1) Planting a Rainbow 2) Little Pip and the Rainbow Wish  3) Rainbow Fun  4) The Owl and the Pussy Cat

‘Planting a Rainbow’ was interesting and teaches colours individually at the back but the front part is a bit lengthy to read. ‘Little Pip and the Rainbow wish’ is our favourite. He likes the book so much that he kept bringing it to me for reading aloud to him. The rainbows are shone in glitter paper on every page and the little mice illustrations are so cute. The story is lengthy and I thought he wouldn’t be able to keep his attention but surprisingly, he loves to look at the illustrations and would use his finger to go over the rainbow in an arc like I did. We also read ‘Rainbow Fish’ and an accompanying book about the colours in the Rainbow Fish book. The story is about giving and sharing. He likes the ‘Rainbow Fun’ book because of the hole in the centre of the pages. And it’s good to help him identify the colours.

Song-Youtube (To View, Right-click and choose “Open in New Tab”)

The Rainbow Song (He always say “apple” when I sing the first sentence, “Oh I like Red”) – I printed out the lyrics and laminated the document. The graphics are found through google search.

Rainbow song for children with colour magic (Amazing High Quality Music! – He always point to the rainbow when it’s shown)

I can sing a rainbow (He would join in with “Pur…” for Purple)

Rainbow Connection (a popular song for children)

The Rainbow Song for Kids (Nice!)

Colors – UPDATED version – song for children

There’s only six colours to learn for his age. Indigo is a little difficult for him to learn now so we usually substitute with Purple. Though the actual colour is Violet.

What he learnt: He could say “Bue” everytime he spots it. He also started saying “Pur” when he saw the colour. He knows “The Rainbow” song very well and would say out loud, “Apple!” when I start singing, “Oh I like red, it’s…” He would say, “Pur” when the lyrics for the colour Purple comes up in the “Sing A Rainbow” Song. In the middle of the second week, he could point to a picture of a rainbow and say, “Bi…bow”.(He can’t pronounce Rain).

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Tuesday through Thursday: Colour- Green and Alphabet- G was introduced. I let him colour the shape we learnt last week in Green. (Rectangle).

We dot painted the Letter G with Green Colour and scribbled on it with Green Colour Crayons. He loves scribbling nowadays and always want to use his left hand to hold the crayons despite me helping him to hold with the right. He also wants to scribble on a fresh page everytime once he has drawn a few lines, instead of filling the page.

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Maths-Activity: Sequencing. Sorting Rainbow From the Smallest Size to the Largest. (I printed them from here)

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Friday: Nursery Rhyme- The Owl and the Pussycat was introduced using a storybook. A nice but strange story in my opinion. He happens to love these two animals, saying, “Owl! Hoo..hoo” when he sees it. And doing his high-pitched “mmmm” for the Cat.

During the week, we also did Craft Work:

Make a Rainbow Collage- I tore out pages of different colours from magazines. It was not easy to find orange so I only had a few pieces from it. I then tore each coloured magazine page into small bits for him to stick onto the Rainbow I drew with marker pen. I actually held his hand to draw the rainbow lines so they were a little squiggly. I also rubbed each rainbow lines with glue first before I asked him to stick the pieces of paper down. It’s easier that way.

OVERALL, THE LEARNING CORNER & BOARD

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– We played with the coloured shape eggs. He gets frustrated when he cannot get the two halves to close over each other and would whine and throw a tantrum. So I had to help him with pushing it in. He is able to match the correct colour but the mechanism is a bit tight for him to close completely.

After dotting the Letter G with the Do-A-Dot marker, he wanted to close it with the cap, so I let him experiment with the twisting, opening and closing the cap, knowing he’ll make a mess on his fingers. Luckily, the colour washed off after a while. (It does not wash off immediately.I took care not to let him touch any fabric)

Since we are on the topic of Rainbow, of course, we need to build some Rainbow Pegs. So we took out that toy again and let him build a tower up, identifying the colours as we built it. He was better at it than when we first played and could put on the peg all by himself. But he tend to plug it out the moment he put it on too so I had to stop him from doing it and hand him another. We did not do colour matching this time because he dislike that the other time we played. He doesn’t like to be restricted in choosing where to place the pegs but this time, he actually put on several one after another til it was very high. This surprised me.

• He loves the wind and would turn his head up to feel it blowing over his face.
• He loves cat and often laughs excitedly when he spots a stray cat in our estate.
• We took a walk along the MRT track path again one afternoon.
• Went to the Zoo for an outing and ‘touch’ a cheetah.
• Playing catching in the park at night.
• Having fun scooping sand in the sand pit.

He kept laughing when we were doing the Do-A-Dot Activity. He found it so funny to go “Dot Dot Dot” up and down.

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