Home Learning With Winter Promise

It's a brand new year, and I didn't have anything planned for Tim to do for his learning, as we had wanted him to go to Nursery school.

During the week when Tim was home (due to flu), I had to think up of some stuff to keep the kid happy and mentally/intellectually stimulated; in my desperation, I pulled out the Winter Promise homeschool materials on "I Am Ready To Learn" for help.

I like this set of program as the author/creator of this program, worked very closely according to Charlotte Mason's method. Besides, it has all the activities worked out on a daily schedule for me to follow...so not much prep work is required on the one who is delivering the lessons. As the kids are still young, lessons are in short segments and are all activity based - great to keep the little ones interested and at the same time learn. Here's some info on the Winter Promise for your reading.
I pulled out a section of the program and started running it through with Tim. It took me only 10mins of reading through what I am supposed to do...

The first activity on was to write the name of the child on a piece of paper and have the child "trace" the writing... I was completely surprised by Tim being able to write something legible...even though he still can't hold the pen properly and it seemed to me that he wrote his name reading "MIT" instead of "TIM"... I hope this mistake would be corrected in time to come...
We played a game on Science. Discovering the changes that happen to the ice cubes. This activity took us almost an hour... not bad... at least it kept Tim very happy and interested... *smile*
The math activity was something I didn't have on hand...so I substituted with this counting the dots game. I've made this set of flash cards (using a flip chart and regular A4 size paper and red dotted stickers) way before Tim turned one-year old...teehehe... and have been kept in cold storage for such a loooooong time... this is the first time that it was used.

I didn't make Tim learn using the flash card method, rather, I have him count the dots and tell me the number. But he lost interest with the increase number of dots on the charts. So we ended this activity in 10mins.
We read a bible story and a chinese book on Emma the elephant.

I am glad Tim had fun and at the same time was able to learn some new things here and there... as he just turned 3 in early Jan, I could see the golden window of opportunity to guide him into learning more constructively and in a more structured manner as he is able to take instructions better and at the same time able to articulate his wants/interest clearer.

More updates coming up... :)