Carnival 2016

Uhhh.. finnaly I managed to write a post.

Things go fast, our toddler is growing, I am happy the way he grows and how easier things become every day. He begins to be independent, to play alone and leave me with more time for myself. But, this doesn´t mean that me and my husband do not help on his developing skills in either way.

Today, I will talk about Carnival that were in his nursery this year. I think, that this year was the first one, when our toddler really enjoyed all the week, and went to the nursery very happy. All these, because every day he had to go to the nursery masked, and last day, on Friday, the nursery was one who prepares disguise for all children. I went on Friday to see him, and to listen all the songs that they prepared for Carnival. It was a very good experience, for me and for our toddler. I was proud of him, as he wasn´t crying or bored about the idea of Carnival, and he was proud as his mom comes to see him.

Some pictures below. How cute is he on elfs disguise¿?

xoxoxo

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Tiger is our best friend. How nursery teach from early months to care somebody?

In every nursery there is a toy, that represents the class. And during the year this toy is shown as being one of the best friend of a class, which kids have to care. Then every week one of toddlers is choosen to be a Hero of the week. This means that they have to take this toy at home during the weekend, to care of this, play with this and be amazed as this one of theirs best friend in the nursery. It is likely to take one of your best friend to stay with you at home.

Our son, was choosen as Hero of the week this weekend, the main character is Tiger. Our toddler had to play, read, sleep and care of Tiger. We had to make some images and then to print them and give them to the nursery. During this week, Damian will explain (I don´t know how) to his mates how he passed his weekend with theirs common best friend Tiger.

My thoughts. It was amazing to see our kid to be so keen of caring of this toy, and time he dedicated to play with it. I suppose that even if he is not talking too many words, he is aware about his experience as he has seen it before in his kidergarden and saw how others was caring of this toy. Then I thought that it is wonderful that they learn in the nursery to take care of something and somebody, they teach them then to express their emotions during this process of care. This develops his social interaction with other kids and as well to grow his self esteem as being a hero in the eyes of his mates.

Our toddler even posed for taking the photos. This means that he knows what will follow :).

Here you go with this lovely experience.

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Carnival 2015 - Spanish tradition to disguise for a whole week.

Last week was a great week for all children who like to disguise, as all week long, each day they had to put them something unusual, like big sockets, or big t-shirt, etc. Each school or nursery has its own rules, so there are a lot of difference from nursery to nursery. The only thing all do the same, that there is a day when all the children from the nursery go out, in a special disguise, Damian was octopus, made by the girls in the nursery, sing songs, and all parents come to see their little pumpkins. What we did on Thursday :D.

Here are some pictures from this special day. LOVE BARCELONA & NURSERY!

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Proud of my son. Activities that use to do my toddler in the nursery

Each parent is proud of his child, I know that :D.  Today I want to share with you some of Damian´s works from nursery, all of his paintings during the first month on the new nursery. In previous nursery they were doing different craftings and not just paintings, so every nursery has its own structure and materials to develop the imagination and fine motor skills of the toddlers. If your child stays with you at home, I think it would be a good idea to do some of these activities with your child as well.

First image is: Welcome!

paint with colours

paint with a sponge with many colours

paint with cotton

paint with gelatin

paint with wax pencils

paint with chalk

paint with chocolate

paint with sugar

paint with forms

stamp the hand with blue colour

paint with sponge

paint with red colour

I enjoyed a lot watching his creations, that´s why I´m so proud of him and I share this with you.

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Maestro Damian

All children love music and songs, and I think that it is the best way they can learn words on their own or any other foreign language. Damian is not an exception, he adores music and classic one is one he likes most, as well we try to show him children songs in different languages, ones that we think develop his vocabulary and better understanding of a language. I think I will share one day all the songs we are singing together day by day  in a post.

As well all children like to touch music instruments, like piano or guitar the more habitual instruments that parents try to buy for their children. We haven´t bought any of them, but one of the parents took one music instrument to the nursery and showed all children how to play on it. And not an habitual one, but a violoncello. I was really impressed when I have seen the video where Damian is playing on this kind of instrument, he took violoncello like a professional, and he didn´t touch any kind of instrument till that day.

Below I want to share with you these videos, I hope you will like them as much as I do.

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Christmas in the nursery

On Friday Damian celebrated Christmas in the nursery. I had to wear him in something red, because this was the color of their group. At 16.00 all parents had to come, and children were supposed to show us something. When all of us came at the nursery, we had to hide, as our children couldn´t see us. The first ones presented was the group P2 (these are the last year in the nursery and are the big ones :)). While they were presenting the little ones P0 and P1, had to sit and watch them. It was funny as every time a child found in the crowd his/her parents he/she began to cry. Damian wasn´t an exception, he was looking into the crowd, watching all the people and searching for us, till he finally found me and he began to cry as well. So, just imagine how fun was to see all the children crying, the girls trying to maintain them showing all that was supposed to be shown...just a show. At the end I cought Damian and we were listening to a wonderful music presented by one of the parents. After that great presentation, all the babies and parents had to sing a traditional song ¨Fum, Fum, Fum¨ Below you can see some images from this Christmas party. As on previous posts, for confidentiality reasons I will show you just pictures with Damian.

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On a farm!

Last week Damian with his mates in the nursery went to a farm. It was first time when he went somewhere without us, but with his nursery. It was a great experience I think, as he has never seen any domestic animal. I was keen to see any foto, and finnaly I have got them, so I am really happy :). I advise you to show your child real animals, not just in books as this make them be more attentive to the sounds that these are doing.

After going to the farm Damian shows us how is making a dog, a cow, a duck, a sheep. These make me feel like this going out wasn´t a bad idea. I really want to thank the nursery for organizing this, as I understand how much work it suppose.

For reasons of confidentiality of the images I have made changes and croped the images, so you will see just my child in the images below.

1. Here are the images in that mornig in the bus.

2. Here he is dressed up as an angel, all of his classmates were dressed up in different Christmas personages.

3. Below some images of the farm, really big farm and very beautiful.

And here is the link to the farm where they went last week.

http://www.canmontcau.com/

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Carnival

This week was Carnival in Barcelona and all nurseries and schools are preparing different things each day, like drawing the face, put different shoes, pijama and so on. Each school or nursurey has its own agenda, but as an idea it is the same everywhere. The most interesting thing is that even adults dress up or masquerade during the celebrations, which marks an overturning of daily life. Yes it sounds very interesting and actually it is, but for me it was the largest week that could be and I am feeling very tired.

As I didn't have children before :) and during these years of living in Barcelona I have never participated in Carnival I didn't know about this week. On Monday when the nurse told me about this week and gave me a piece of paper with the program of all the week, I put in practice all my imagination to create something interesting for my child.

The first day, that was Monday, all the children had to had two different pairs of shoes so on one foot one shoe and on other another shoe with another color or form. This day we didn't participate as I didn't know about this. On Tuesday it was pijama day.

On Wednesday we had to draw Damian's face. Specially for this task I bought make up that you can draw on babies faces, as well it is important no to leave it for a long time. We opted for something unusual and it was little tiger.... rrrrrr.... our little tiger on that morning was moving so much, as on the picture you can see the third version of make up... and of course all the clothes or things which were nearby were full of these colours.

On Thursay we had to masqarade in somebody unusual, I opted for Mikey Mouse... here I would like to mention that on Monday night I was sewing Mikey Mouse ears and I think that these look pretty good.

And Friday, the last and interesting one. We had the task to bring a bonnet or any other thing for the head.... I bought a bee bonnet, very beautiful and very big as it was perfect for my head, so the night before I was spending on modifying the size of the cap. As well this day was important as in nursery the girls were preparing some costumes to all children and we (all parents) were invited to look at them how beatiful they are and how they are singing songs.... obviously that mine was not singing... but it was great to have a look to other children.

The funniest moment was that Damian fall asleep just before all the show started, and we made very few images. The personage that was represented by boys in the nursery was Pocoyo, very famous here in Spain.

Enjoy the pictures as I'm going to sleep, we love our readers!!!

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