Всем привет! Как известно, сенсорные игры очень важны для детского развития и один из самых популярных материалов для сенсорной игры, конечно же пластилин. Пластилин можно купить, а можно и сделать самому. Вот и я решила попробовать домашний пластилин. Я попробовала два разных рецепта, которые я нашла в интернете. Хочу оговориться, что рецептов пластилина в интернете очень много и я уверенна, что каждый может найти идеальный для себя, я же поделюсь впечатлением от рецептов, которые попрпбовала я. Итак приступим. Первый рецепт:
По рецепту нужно было просто все смешать и вымесить как тесто. По этому рецепту у меня получился очень плотный пластилин и было трудно вымешивать, пластилин получился жестковатым. Второй рецепт совсем немного отличается по ингредиентам, но его нужно варить:
Все ингредиенты,кроме красителя, смешать и поставить на плиту проварить до образования плотной массы, буквально пару минут. Оставить немного остыть и затем вымесить. Во время вымешивания, добавляем краситель (не забываем одеть перчатки! Иначе руки окрасятся.) Пластилин получился очень мягким, эластичным и приятным на ощупь, не требовал долгого вымешивания. Я добавляла немного корицы для аромата, моему ребёнку понравилось, сказал, что вкусно пахнет. Второй рецепт мне понравился больше. Хранить пластилин необходимо в закрытом контейнере. Попробуйте и Вы. Если у Вас есть любимый рецепт, делитесь рецептом в коментариях.
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Happy Friday! I have to say my husband does not like this phrase due to Fridays being the busiest days of the week for him. Well, hopefully, it is not the case for you 😊. Friday means that tomorrow will be Saturday, and I have the whole weekend ahead of me. I love weekends! So, Happy Friday, everyone! Today I want to talk about sensory and the role it plays in your child’s life. Sensory is the ability to feel through touch, smell, sound, sight, and taste. Think about infants, how they put everything in their mouth, how they are touching and exploring something new. Yes, that is how they are learning and developing a new skill. Our goal as parents and caregivers is to provide opportunities for children to explore. It could be while the kid is playing in the backyard, taking a bath, eating, or playing on the floor, no limits. I talked to so many parents that were afraid or upset that their kid is getting dirty while playing. How do you think they are learning? Exactly! They are learning through touching, smelling, smearing it all over their clothes, table, or any other surface for that matter, just breath 😊, guide and provide supervision and let your child learn and develop! I let my kids play with soil, foam, paint, gel, and so much more. I let my children eat with their hands as soon as they were able to do so, and it was a mass they were smearing it all over their highchair more than they were eating, but guess what? … they were learning and exploring new skills that are so important for their development, so what it is messy. I can clean it later, right? There are so many activities that you can do to engage a child’s senses. For infants, you can put gel (water beads, paint, cotton balls, flour, buckwheat, etc.) in the zip lock, double bag it, seal it with duct tape and let your kid touch, toss, and squish it. For Toddlers, you can provide the same items in the bin and let them experiment with them. With older children, you can experiment with smells by putting the various spices in the bag and let your kid guess what is in the bag by smelling it. If they have trouble guess, you can discuss what it could be. Is it familiar or a new smell for them? Let your kid experiment with cold and warm, soft and rough, sweet and sour. Our job is to keep it safe and let the kids have fun learning! You all have a great weekend! Talk to you soon! Olena Kheyson. Hi, everyone!
Friday is here!! What are your plans for this weekend? I hope it is something fun! I understand that a lot of us are so busy with things we put off for the weekend. I wish you to find a moment for yourself and for the people that you love so you can enjoy some time together. Today I want to talk about reading again. I believe that reading at a young age is extremely important for kids’ development, that is why I talk about it so much. In one of my previous blogs, I talked about reading and how it was a fundamental part of a daily routine in our family when our children were little. Then I caught myself thinking that I did not know a lot about reading and when to start, and how to introduce it to my first child when I was a young and inexperienced mom. With my first son, I did not know a lot and learned new information in the process of being a mother. I had so many questions. Well, through the countless training and a ton of experience I’ve learned that reading to your little one is never too early. If you are a new parent and not sure when to start your story-time routine, you can start now, and it doesn’t matter if your kid is 5-days old or 5-years old. Kids will listen and learn through the book and it will be a great time to snuggle. It is an opportunity to make “never forget” moments with your kid, don’t miss it. Reading at a young age will help build a solid vocabulary for your child and develop concentration skills crucial for further learning. You all have a great weekend, read with your kids, and enjoy your time together! Olena Kheyson. Hi, everyone! Today I would like to talk about Feelings and Emotions in our life and importance of acknowledging and finding the ways of coping with them, it is important skill for us, adults, and so as for our children. We are having a different feeling throughout the day, based on where we are and what we are dialing with. We can feel stressed, scared, surprised, happy, or calm and most of us found or in the process of finding the best ways of how to cope with these feelings in the moment, the most important in this process is to be able to identify them and only then we can work on finding the right way for us to deal with it. Right? What about children? They do experience different emotions and feelings throughout the day as well, but could they identify these feelings and find the ways to deal with them on their own? The answer to this question would be “No” if we are not educating our kids on feelings and emotions that every person able to experience. It is OK to feel scared! It is OK to feel angry! It is OK to feel disappointed! We can’t control what we feel, but we can control what we do about it. That is why it is so important to teach our children, what do we do when we feel scared, how do we handle the situation when we feel angry or disappointed. Identifying and acknowledging what your little one is feeling in the moment would be the first step in the emotional education. Next time when you see your kid is crying during drop off at school, take your time to acknowledge that your kid is feeling sad, you can say something like this: “I understand that you are feeling sad, because I am leaving, and it is OK”, and in this moment you can discuss with your little one what would help him or her ease this feeling, you can make some suggestions, like giving him or her an extra hug or giving the note with warm message that he or she can look at when feeling sad throughout the day at school, and when your kid will start making suggestions that would be an amazing milestone, because that is when your kid is learning how to deal with his or her feelings and finding the right ways that would help to cope with them. Note: If your kid is having hard times during drop off, you can try this book “The Kissing Hand for Chester Raccoon” by Audrey Penn, it may help. You would want to do the same when you see your child feeling angry, scared, or disappointed, do not exclude any of them, because each of the feelings has a place to be in our life and we need to learn how to deal with them. I wish you and your family a great weekend and let it be filled with positive and pleasant emotions! Talk to you soon! Olena Kheyson. Hi, everyone! It is almost a weekend. I hope you all had a productive and successful week. We have two days to relax, recharge and enjoy time with our loved ones. The best way to spend a weekend for me is to be with my family, it doesn’t matter what we do, the main thing is that we are doing it together. One time, when I was getting ready for work, my 7-years-old son came to me and said, “I don’t like when you leave, I want you to stay home”... and here I should say that my son is a very independent kid, his favorite hobby is to draw, when we are all at home he can easily spend all day drawing and doesn’t need me for entertainment, he wants all of us to be together and that is how I feel. When my children were little, I loved to spend time reading to them, the bedtime story was a routine for us, my kids loved it. Sometimes, I was so tired, that my eyes would start closing while I am reading (you know that feeling when you are putting yourself to sleep by reading the book? That was it…), but I couldn’t skip it, kids were waiting for bedtime story every night, and I wouldn’t miss the opportunity to have that bond with them while reading the book. Also, very often I would use this opportunity to read them the Russian book, so I can expose them to the Russian language as much as I could. I do believe that reading is tremendously beneficial for kids and developing not only language skills, but also imagination, creativity, and critical thinking. Now more often my 7-year-old son is reading to me and at the end of the book we are discussing the main characters, the actions that took place, and the main idea of the book, by doing so I am helping him to build that important “active reading” skill, when the child not just reading, but thinking, predicting, and analyzing the information in the book. Again, reading with your children even if they can read by themselves have countless number of benefits. As you can see, every small action that we do with our kids is teaching them something, let it be something good, kind, and useful. You all have a great weekend. Hi, everyone!
Let’s talk about one of my favorites, well, one of kids’ favorite activities – Felt Board. It is fun and engaging activity and kids are loving it! Seriously, they can play with it for an exceptionally long time (I want to say “hours,” but kiddos all so different 😊). You may ask what is cool about it, well you can easily create one of this at home or in your classroom, and it is inexpensive and very easy to set up. When I was doing this activity for my classroom, I have attached felt with stapler to the canvas and there you go, it is ready to use, as simple as that! Now your imagination is the limit, you can create as simple or as complex as you would like, cut out circles, squares, hearts with assorted colors, sizes etc. and there you go, the educational activity is ready for use. Here is an example, you can provide your kiddo with circles that are different in size, but the same in color and ask to sort the circles by size from BIG to small or vice versa. Ta-da, your kid is working on his or her math skills while playing with soft, colorful material engaging sensory. How cool is that!! You can create so many educational activities using only circles, sort by color, by size, count them and see which size or color of the circles fewer. The sky is the limit! You can encourage your kid to come up with the different images by using different shapes of felt, he or she will be learning shapes while using and developing imagination and creativity. I did not mention the letters on the felt board yet. You can cut out the letters from the felt and your kid can work on their writing and language skills. Letter recognition, spelling, sorting letters… you name it! You can try more complex version, story - telling, it may take some time to create the characters, but once you create them you would not have to do it again for years. I saw on the Pinterest someone created the “Hungry Caterpillar” with felt, how cute is that! Pinterest is a good recourse for ideas, there is ton of them! I, also, will be posting different ideas on the website. I am encouraging you to try this at home or in the classroom, it is fun for kids and there is so much educational value in it. Once, I did the Felt Christmas Tree in the classroom and cut out all kinds of “ornaments” with different shapes and colors, kids in my classroom loved it so much, I should say, it was their favorite activity for a long time. Just remember, toys and activities for little once don’t have to be expensive and complex, it must be colorful, simple to use and engaging. You all have a great weekend, enjoy your time with the family and have fun with your kids. I will talk to you soon! Helping your child to start school year on a positive and optimistic noteHi, Moms and Dads!
First two days of school has passed… Oh wow!! The summer went by so fast, and we are at the beginning of the new busy school year again. I have to say, both of my boys were ready to go back and see their school friends, nevertheless I can tell those feelings of excitement and adventure were mixed with feelings of uncertainty, a specially, for my freshman in the High School. It is understandable, he is about to start a new chapter in his school career, he is not a little kid anymore… He must meet the High School requirements, maintain a good grades and develop social life in the new school. What a task… I have to say teachers in my son’s school were working around the clock to prepare parents and kids for the upcoming school year, tons of communication from school’s administration and teachers, and it is highly appreciated by the parent of the freshman! On the other hand, as a parent, I made sure to provide lots of support and encouragement to help this transition into the new school year to go smoothly for my children. Both of my children had an awesome First Day of School! Like any worried mom, I was thinking about them all day and when finally, they both got home I bombarded them with tons of questions and was relieved to know that everything went well at school. That is what I do… Every family has it is own culture, traditions, and ways of communicating, but asking questions, listening to the kid, and paying attention to their body language is universal. It can help parents to determine if their child needs support in anything. Even as an adult, sometimes, we need to talk through the situation to make the right decision or discuss it with the person that we trust to find the right way to handle any given situation or obstacle, same goes for our children. Just find the way of communicating with your kids that works best for you, have the conversations with them about their challenges, encourage them to express their feelings and worries and share you experiences to help them get through the obstacles. I wish all schoolers a great school year. Parents, we got this! |
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I am a mother of two children with over 10 years of experience in early childhood education. I am passionate about teaching young children and helping them to learn and to master the essential skills that they need to be successful. Archives |