Reading ~ Home made books

Getting some reading in with one of our home-made books. This one has a line of text that I read at the top and a corresponding line that Tama reads at the bottom. It's called 'Tama loves...'. You can see it on my other blog here.

Cake Baking

Cake making out of a box makes for some easy practical life action. Plus it combines science and technology as well as a bit of creativity with the decorating. :-)

Lunches

Colouring Together

Colouring in is something that Tama and I just enjoy doing together. It's also great for his fine motor skills. :-)

Slapping Speech Sounds

Tama has issues with his pronunciation of some letters- it's bad enough that sometimes we can't understand him. So speech is something we work on everyday. In this game he uses the 'slapper hand' which is made of a sticky jelly substance to 'grab' the words and then he needs to say them correctly to move onto the next one.

Reading

'Reading' to himself is not something that Tama chooses to do for play very often so it always makes me pretty happy when he does.

Jelly

Jelly (not in line with our new diet) is something that Tama can make himself (I pour the water from the kettle). He enjoys doing it and knows the whole process. Even better he enjoys eating it.

I printed the photos from this session and he dictated the instructions for Jelly Making into his language book.

Geo Board

This is the Geoboard that Tama chose at the homeschool meet-up this is something he is choosing to play with on a regular basis at the moment. At the moment it's just free form but eventually we'll look at doing some regular shapes.

Telling Tales

Tama dictated a story about the Homeschool meet-up and then added some illustrations to complement the photos we printed.

Lunches

Bowling with blocks

Tama experimenting with force and motion. In the end he had to get quite close to the blocks as they are quite heavy and his ball was quite light.

Crackers

We've started to modify our diet this year for health reasons, so we're experimenting with some new foods to find replacements for the old 'carbage'. Tama helped me to make these seed crackers. I thought they were ok but no one else seemed to agree. At least we had fin making them.

Homeschool Meet-up

We attended the start of year Homeschool meet-up at a park in the city. We checked out the sales and Tama chose a home-made Geoboard to buy. I got a fractions set and a clock stamp. Then we enjoyed some lunch away from the noise and commotion to give Tama some time to take it all in.

After some careful observation he eventually felt confident enough to join in on the action. He thoroughly enjoyed himself. :-)

Tama's favourite tree at the park.