Playing is learning-Coin Game improves finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination

At birth, a baby's five senses are working, and before you know it, your young child is off to explore using all of those senses. As your baby grows, she becomes more curious—and that curiosity is never satisfied. She throws herself into the business of learning.

Through her observations and experiences, she learns about her world. This learning is called play.

From dawn to dusk, there are learning experiences through play that will help your baby develop physically and mentally. Look at al these coins, they are my collection from diferent countries. I put them in a very Giant Plastic Milk Bottle, Autumn love playing with the coins by putting them through the hole. I love watching her doing this.

This is the concept that i always practice in bringing up my baby. The learning journey can be so much fun with these enjoyable and entertaining activities as you go through your days with baby.
 

The Coin Game might be a very simple game. But, this simple game teaches valuable skills such as finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination. Show your little one how to put a coin into the plastic bottle. Encourage him to dump it out, then put it back. Invite your child to hold the bottle and to try to get the the coins out.  

If this is too hard for him or her, try holing her litle fingers and help her putting the coins into the bottle. Initially, she might never get it, so we must always help them so that they will not be demotivated. After that, she will love playing with this game and  keeps practising it. She will be very happy and proud to find that she is very capable in putting in the coins. Remember, every time she puts in a coin, give her a BIG CLAP!! This is a very good motivation and encouragement.

 Worrying that she might eat it or swallow the coins? Don't worry, babies are not that stupid if the parents do teach them. Just explain to them that these are coins, or money, and you need to put it inside. You cannot eat them...

This simple game teaches valuable skills such as finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination, also she will start to recognize things that cannot be put inside the mouth and she can only food, like biscuits, bread, rice, fruits, etc... Of course, make sure she you wash her hands after the game, or before she eats something.
Babies have so much to learn - and you can make it fun for you and your little one. Encourage your baby's development in creating baby fun by playing with your baby throughout your day!!

MMS from Autumn's Kindergarten-communication between parents and teachers is essential

Missing someone is definitely a vey sour, uncomfortable feeling....
What more to say missing your beloved baby, whom you love so much, was in your womb for 9 months from the day you're conceived,sleeping with you every night till the day she is born you and her were never apart...

 That feeling is unbearable......
 

The school teacher sent me MMS yesterday and today...This is her feeding time.....

  

Autumn had just finished shower, and was eating banana and srinking water..

Autumn was sleeping again...

Hehe.. eating the apple that mommy put i her bag.... She loved it!!

These pictures seem to be quite normal, they are just her daily routine activities....
But it meant so much to me.....
When the teacher told me that she cold read the whole brown bear book, together with those 2-3 years old children "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, how do you do?"
"Purple cat, purple cat, What do you see?"
"White dog, white dog......."
The teacher told me that it is from a book, oh! Now i know why she kept of saying those....
Now, doubts are cleared, questions re answered...
Therefore, it is very important that parents must constantly communicate with the teachers to be updated with your children's progress......
More videos in the upcoming posts......

Colouring for Babies

Recently, i had started to let my baby do some colouring.

I know some of you must be thinking that, "No way! She is just 1 year plus and how could she know how to colour!?" Well i know hat, too.
But, no matter how they scribble with the crayons or colour pencils, they are actually exercising their little fingers, as well as their eyes. They are in the learning stage to recognize colours and also some simple images.
It is the same teaching them to sing, read, or write.. One day, before yo realise, she might suddenly draw a flower, or a house!!! Don't be astonished with how fast babies can learn!!
Remember, every single little thing they do, see, play, they are learning something....

Babies can be impatient too

Sometimes babies can be quite cranky and impatient as well.

 
When they are trying to get certain things done but unable to do so, they will just shout and cry....

Very simple, they can cry this second and laugh the next second...

Cute, right?

Babies can read before you realised

My girl could read almost the whole book from A-Z back in the beginning of this year, and now she can recognize many things and words on many of the charts in our room too.....

Yes, almost everyday, i read those words to Autumn and she follows.

 

Sometimes the babies' pronunciation might be weird but it's okay. As long as they enjoy the whole process, and think that mommy is playing with them, they are learning. 

Before you even realised, she would read the whole chart!!

I was too shocked and could not take the video in time when she started reading...

Haha... Hope you will enjoy the video...

Autumn likes to play with make ups

Look at my girl...

What is she doing?

Trying to apply eye shadow on her face...
Recently she is always aiming for my make up bag and start digging...

Looking at her, i really did not know whether what reaction should i have.
Angry?? Scold her? Nope, in the end i was laughing, and laughing, and laughing...

So, i decided to take these pictures before i wiped it off her face..
Haha, she also laughed when she saw her own pictures...

My conclusion is.....babies are really fast learners...

Babies start feeding themselves

Another new thing that babies will learn when they are about 18 months old>>> eating on their own..  Look, now Autumn is enjoy eating on her own..

 She loves to have her own spoon and bowl. Look at the mess!

Even when we eat out, i'll also let her eat on her own. 

This is Autumn eating her Meat dumpling with a fork.

This is Autumn eating her mashed potato at My Restaurant...

it seems that they always mess up the whole table or chair and even the whole floor area....
Like this>>

It seems that they are playing, but they are actually learning...
Never mind, the more training she has she will be better or more skillful.
I am waiting for that day to arrive soon...
She is growing up...

Lotion! Lotion! I want! I want!

Autumn now always like to apply lotion on her hands, legs, and most importantly on her face!!

Every morning or evening, she would peep and see how i wash my face, or apply my facial cream, etc. Then, she would also touch her face and keep rubbing whatever cream, lotion that she grabbed.

This is my little princess applying lotion on her cheeks!

The funniest thing is.....if she could not find her lotion, she would just squeeze out the nappy cream if she found and grabbed one, and then apply on her face!!! 

LOL... then i would just teach her, this is not for the face, but for your "pit-pit"!!

Autumn got her Floats

Yeah! I finally bought Autumn her swimming accesories, floats for her arms, and a smart float for he to sit inside.

I got this this Smart Float for only RM49.90 at Arena in The Spring.

Autumn was so excited that she wanted to open up and seek how does the floats look like...

The normal float has only 1 layer, and children have to hang in there with their arms. It is pretty dangerous, as when they lift their arms, they might just slip into the water.This type of float is totally different, it has 2 layers. The outer part is with the standard float size, but they have another layer of inside for the baby to sit inside. So, it is like float in the float!

Oh... we need to blow it to be able to see..

Mommy will blow the smaller ones for the arms..

Daddy will have to blow the big float..

Finally, testing testing! Yeah! Autumn has her floats on!

I wanted to bring her to the pool and beach at Damai on Saturday. We went. But, she didn't get the chance to use it.
Why? I will talk about it in my next entry... it's really tiring...

My baby wants to "play"

Last week when i picked Autumn from school, she would hold my hand and led me towards the side.
"Mommy, play.. play..."

At first i was kinda blurred and wondered where was she dragging me...
Oh, she wanted to play with me...
Yea, my girl is starting to enjoy playing certain things..

See... She went on climbing up....

The teacher was worried..

Hehe... I see you....

Trying to climb through the hole..

Trying to climb through the glidder

 "I want to do jumping exercise!!"

Turtle..

After one round of playing all those....  then only she was satisfied to go home...

I normally let her try to explore things, playing is a fun and easy way to learn!! (provided if i am not in a rush!)
You can say all the verbs or nouns and explain to her while she is doing certain actions or touching certain things... She can pick up really fast when she is in a happy mood....