Glitter and Rainbows
  • Blog
  • About
  • Teachers Pay Teachers
  • Life Coach
  • Tarot
  • Blog
  • About
  • Teachers Pay Teachers
  • Life Coach
  • Tarot

YEP ANOTHER MUMMY BLOG

There is nothing permanent except change

9/5/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
I think I’m on a journey. I want to see changes in my life, and I want those changes to help others. I’m not going to stop blogging, though I’m not very good at it 😅

Who knows what I’m doing really, just a lot of navel gazing possibly, definitely some self-reflection, a bit of actual learning, and
a handful of helping.
0 Comments

The Letter R

6/5/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
This week we are looking at the letter R, actually we a listening to the ‘r’ sound that this letter can make. Slight difference there but I focus on the phoneme - the sound - rather then the letter name.
Picture
I have set up next the TV a small toast rack that I bought in an second hand shop. It holds the sandpaper letter R, that I bought from Wood Puzzles here in Queensland. It also displays ‘My “r” Book’ by Jane Belk Moncure and ‘Sleepy Cheetah’ by Mwnye Hadithj.
Picture
First we practised writing the letter by tracing over the sandpaper as we made the R sound.
Picture
I then read ‘My “r” book’ aloud, really pointing out and emphasising that R sound. These books a super cute and Atlas really enjoys them, I have the vintage set which I bought off eBay.
Picture
We then read ‘Sleepy Cheetah’ which has many R sounds. The illustrations are beautiful and soft, and I love the similes used through out the story. I pointing out the lower case letter R every now and then as well.

We will read ‘Sleepy Cheetah’ through out the week and work on related and fun activities... I just haven’t planned out what they are yet 😂
0 Comments

Concerts

28/4/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
This weekend, our town hosted the Way Out West Fest. It’s three days of musicians at every food and drink venue in our town plus two nights of international and Australian artists.
We love music, it is an important aspect of our life. So for us this is an amazing opportunity that we are so lucky to participate in. My husband is involved via his work so we’ve been lucky to get VIP and Crew passes.
Picture
Picture
What’s more important to us is that Atlas is able to attend some of the concerts and see live music.
Picture
He’s always shown an interest in music, playing his percussion instruments, blowing the recorder, putting on CDs, and singing made up and not quite right lyrics.
Picture
This weekend has really made an impression upon him, even though we went to last year’s festival because he’s older it’s definitely triggered something.
Picture
This afternoon after seeing Anu Grace performing, on the way home he decided to put on his own concert for us.
Picture
And it was super cute.
Picture
This really does prove to me that the environment we place our children in, really does become the third teacher.

I wish we had gotten to see more performers, but on Saturday we lost our oldest cat. Later in the week, when I’ll be a little less sad, I’ll write a post about it.
0 Comments

Circle Punch Exploration

17/4/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
I was testing my box of permanent markers out today, and was left with this pretty cute looking peice of paper. I didn’t want it to go to waste so I set up a process art tray for Atlas. It also included scissors, glue, and a circle punch.

When Atlas saw the tray he was pretty excited!
Picture
What is this thing? Where did this paper come from?
Picture
How do I do this?
Picture
Where did the circle go? Atlas found a little flap that held the circles after they were cut.
Picture
This one’s not a full circle! Problem solving why some circles weren’t full circles and how to fix was tricky.
Picture
A pretty pile of decorated circle!
Picture
He did end up glueing two circles to a small off cut of paper, but that wasn’t our focus. I love how this activity used so many different fine motor skills and co-ordination.
0 Comments

Colour and Cut

15/4/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Who says art has to be messy or that you need a tonne of art supplies?No one probably but anyway...

Atlas was exploring simple materials with a focus on the process rather than the product that he was making. I love process art especially as this was all self directed. It helps that all of this was easily accessible to him.

Materials:
Cardboard
Scissors
Felt pens
Picture
Step 1
Cut up some cardboard, any shape you want. Atlas cut a long strip.
Picture
Add some colour using felt pens.
Picture
Fill the whole piece up with colour.
Picture
Chop your product up into small bits.
Picture
Sprinkle you pieces where someone can appreciate them. Atlas left it on the bed beside his sleeping his dad 😀
0 Comments

Art on the Go

11/4/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
School holidays means no school for me, and not a lot of day care for Atlas. We are travelling to Townsville this week. Have kid: Will travel.
Picture
Quintessential outback shot with the windmill. We stopped in at Charters Towers Maccas for lunch - our first Happy Meal since Christmas time. Although I’ve vowed not to have any while we are away, Atlas does live for the nuggets so we’ll indulge him while we are in the city 😅


While we are near the shops I’ve been we’ve been enjoying buying up art and craft materials. You can imagine the rainbows of colour 🌈 and glitter ✨ we’ve bought!
Picture
Atlas bought some new sticker books, well he snuck them into my basket as I was perusing paint 🎨 😂 I didn’t mind. He also chose an Avenger’s Crayola travel pack of crayons.


Included in my shop was some cards and envelopes and some Crayola Silly Scent pens. Before we headed for dinner with friends I asked Atlas to make a card to give them.
Picture
We are staying in an AirBnB, a beautiful old Queenslander that has a lot of beautiful antiques so we needed to be extra careful when we worked. Yes... he is using a pizza box to protect the table cloth!
Picture
This is Atlas’s first attempt at drawing a human figure - he called it a scarecrow - before it was covered in rainbow 🌈 boy after my own heart.
Picture
Why pay for cards when you can whip up some art like this?
Picture
0 Comments

Nuts and Bolts

6/2/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
I bought this material on sale at the end of last year as on of A’s Christmas presents and then hid it away, and forgot about it.
Picture
I found it late January and got it out for A to play with.
Picture
He really enjoyed it, sorting the bolts and figuring out which way to turn the nuts.
Picture
To be honest, if I lived near to a hardware store I could have made this one myself but I don’t so... I really want to get the activity with the screw driver!

I think purchased this from A to Z Montessori from here.
0 Comments

Pouring into 2 cups

8/1/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Such an easy activity to prepare! Fill a jug (I added food colouring). Put out cups. Add a sponge. Let the magic happen.
Picture
Concentrating on trying to pour even levels.
Opps! Time to clean up.
Oh dear! Most of the water didn’t make it back into the jug.
Picture
Picture
That’s better!
Picture
Pour the water back into the jug... then clean up that mess 😂
Picture
0 Comments

Flower Arranging

6/1/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
Grandma’s garden has lots of flowers in it, so we’ve been enjoying picking and arranging flowers.
Picture
Pouring water into the little vase. We are using Grandma’s good crystal 😱
Picture
In goes a jacaranda blossom, he does like the blue and purple flowers. I don’t often include face shots of A but look at the joy!
Picture
Gently arranging the rest of the flowers.
Picture
Here’s one we prepared earlier.
Picture
0 Comments

Counting cats

5/1/2019

0 Comments

 
Picture
I am so glad I packed the Hape wooden numbers for our holiday. I just knew that A’s interest in numbers would keep growing.
Picture
I was at a discount store and spotting packets of cats. They came in a pack of 6 so I grabbed three knowing I would have enough for A to use them as counters up to 5.
Picture
I introduced the toy cats to A just after we were playing with our real cats. ‘I love these! These are my favourite animals!’
Picture
I started with the number 1 and then we worked out way down the mat; going back to check if A had enough cats for each number.
Picture
After this I also added the zero and showed him how there were no cats beside zero because it means ‘none’ or ‘nothing’. Such a hard concept to understand!

I think I’ll go back and get some more packets of cats so he can keep counting up to 10.
0 Comments
<<Previous

    Author

    Hi, I'm Pamela. A nail crazy lady with green hair. I live in outback Queensland with my toddler and my husband.  I love books, writing and crafting.  For more info about me go to my 'About' page.

    Archives

    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017

    Categories

    All
    2 Year Old
    Activity
    Animals
    Buttons
    Christmas
    Colours
    Counting
    Craft
    Crochet
    DIY
    Fail
    Fashion
    Free
    Games
    Glitter
    Halloween
    Hands As We Grow
    Kites
    Language Development
    Miniatures
    Montessori
    Numbers
    Object Box
    Paint
    Pigs
    Practical Life
    Printables
    Puzzles
    Reading
    Shapes
    Stamping
    Tools
    Tot School
    Toys
    Vehicles
    Wooden Toys

    RSS Feed

Support

Contact
FAQ



Picture
© COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.