Etiquetar ~ Labelling

Organização da casa (escritório)... nestes dias de inverno ~ Home organization... for these winter days

Boneco de neve em casa ~ Making snowman inside

To make indoor snowmen, you will need:

• 2 boxes of cornstarch ~ farinha maizena
• a can of foaming shaving cream ~ lata de espuma de barbear
• a box or plastic container
• a sheet or tarp or even newspaper
• any random materials you have around your house

1. Empty 2 boxes of cornstarch into a box, plastic container, tub, or any other container you have lying around. I used an old gift box with a lid. A lid comes in handy if you want to be able to keep your “snow” to use another day.

2. Add the shaving cream to your cornstarch. I used almost the whole can.

3. Gather together random odds and ends from around the house that can be used to play with the snow. I grabbed a few handfuls of objects from our Treasure Box. Use your imagination here, you could use leaves, twigs and other objects from the yard, you could use beans, pasta, and other dried foods, or even candy. (As long as the kids don’t try to eat it!)

4. Let the little ones mix the cornstarch and shaving cream together until it forms a crumbly powder that sticks together if you form it into a ball. If it won’t stick together, just add a little more shaving cream.

5. They can use any of the objects you have rounded up to explore their “snow” and build whatever they can imagine.

When I mentioned to my daughter that we could make snowmen with our “snow”, she started making a flat snowman using the objects I had gathered for her. After doing that for a while, she realized she could form the “snow” into balls for a 3-D snowman. That is when it really got fun.

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Ano novo chinês ~ Chinese new year

Inauguro a etiqueta "Outras tradições, longe daqui" com este post. Tradições de outros locais no globo para transmitir aos nossos pequenotes!
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Starting off the tag "Other traditions away from here" with this post. 
Traditions from other places on earth to convey to our little ones!

A post from No Time for Flash Cards

Chinese New Year is almost here and today we made a Chinese dragon to celebrate the year of the dragon. When I suggested we make a dragon today my son said ” Okay but it has to be huge!” My request was that it was a project that we could all do together. I also wanted a longer project since we are stuck at home in the snow and needed a long project to break up the at home day.

1. Gather your materials. You will need some craft ( butcher block) paper, red, yellow and green construction paper , green paint, a rolling pin, cutting board,  potato masher ( optional), scissors, glue, bubble wrap and a googly eye. Oh and painters tape to hold it down while you create.
2. Start by taping the paper down and draw a dragon. I free handed the dragon and while perfect it’s not , I am trying to model effort not perfection for my kids and we are focusing on making something fun, not something perfect.
3. Using the construction paper make triangles for spikes on the dragon’s back and head, long strips of red and orange for fire . If your child is cutting make some long strips with guided lines or blank strips thin enough for them to hold and cut easily. My daughter isn’t cutting yet but she still enjoyed ripping so I made sure some of our construction paper was in strips the right size for her to rip and even made little rip to get her started. Set these aside for later.
4. Wrap bubble wrap around your rolling pin and grab a potato masher – both will give a reptilian like print when your child uses them to paint.
5. Spread the paint on a cutting board .
6. Roll and paint.
7. They were both into it. I moved my daughter’s booster around to different parts of the dragon and my son moved around the table painting and printing.
8. She loved the rolling pin.
9. Let dry – I popped this up in my bathroom to dry while we played , went out in the snow and had lunch.
10. Rip
11. Cut 
12. Add glue
13. Add the spikes!
14. He had fun with the fire .
15. Let dry and cut out.
16. Hang up and celebrate the year of the dragon!

Books About Chinese New Year

D is for Dancing Dragon: A China Alphabet by Carol Crane is a in valuable book when teaching about China and Chinese New Year, it is more than a simple alphabet book, going into detail about lanterns, chopsticks, panda bears and so much more. What I love about these books is that younger children can be shown the pictures and given a easy to digest synopsis of the text, while older children can read the whole book. The illustrations by Zong-Zhou Wang will make the most reluctant traveler want to get on a plane to china, they are simply spectacular!

My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz is a simple introduction to Chinese New Year for young children. It’s a board book so if you have let’s say a 4 year old who , let’s say has decided he thinks board books are only for babies, you may want to have him be a reading helper for this one.I had to cajole my son into helping me read this book to his sister but once I started he was into it and enjoying the simplistic way the author illustrator explains the Chinese customs. Even adults may learn something new. Did you know that cutting hair for a fresh start for the new year is a tradition? I never did! The illustrations are bright and cheery and for those of you who aren’t fans of the baby lift the flap books from this author you may want to give the author another chance because her holiday books are really great.

Bringing in the New Year by Grace Lin is a wonderful book to explain Chinese New Year and some of the customs that comes along with it to your preschooler. The illustrations are bright and help explain the festivities and preparations that go into the celebration. The book culminates with a fold out page with a huge dragon briging in the new year. There is also a great explanation of the holiday for parents at the back of the book.

República Checa já tem escolinha portuguesa ~ Learning portuguese in Prague

Já abriu a Escolinha Portuguesa de Praga, na República Checa, um projeto de ensino que pretende satisfazer a procura, por parte de famílias portuguesas ou da CPLP, de um espaço onde os seus filhos possam manter um contacto estreito com a língua portuguesa e as culturas que lhe estão associadas.

De acordo com o Instituto Camões, a inauguração da escolinha aconteceu esta quinta-feira, 10 de Janeiro, após um período experimental que decorreu entre Outubro e Dezembro do ano passado e cujo objetivo foi testar recursos e conteúdos pedagógicos.

Este estabelecimento de ensino específico destina-se, portanto, aos filhos de casais portugueses, migrantes, lusofalantes e famílias em que um dos elementos do agregado seja originário de um dos países da CPLP, oferecendo semanalmente uma série de atividades pedagogicamente adaptadas à primeira e segunda infâncias.

O destaque, entre estas atividades, vai para áreas como o desenvolvimento psicomotor e sociolinguístico, bem como a expressão plástica e a integração comunitária, adianta ainda o Instituto Camões.

Esta escolinha conta com a colaboração de monitores especializados no ensino-aprendizagem da língua portuguesa para crianças e também na expressão corporal e educação física adaptadas a estas faixas etárias.

Além disso, e como complemento às aulas tradicionais, vai oferecer aos alunos sessões pontuais de expressão dramática, oficinas de fantoches, visitas formativas e outras atividades educativas aplicadas.

O projeto, que se encontra sob orientação pedagógica e científica do Centro de Língua Portuguesa/Camões I.P. na República Checa, está a ser desenvolvido em articulação com a Embaixada de Portugal e em cooperação com a escola agustiniana de Praga, que cede as instalações e os equipamentos para as atividades programadas.

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Depois da tempestade, vem a bonança?? ~ After a storm comes a calm??

E... quantas tempestades são precisas?.... Acho que acredito mais na teoria do caos!... Xiça!

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And... how many storms one needs?.... I think i'm for chaos theory mostly!...

A comer clementinas de um quintal ~ Clementine eating

Imagina que era feriado... no Luxemburgo! ~ Imagine it was a holiday in... Luxembourg

Obrigada Rui!!! ~ Thank you Rui!!!

Ao longo dos anos... ~ Throughout the years

Ideias para registar ao longo dos anos... ~ Ideas for recording over the years...

Signature of every school year and favourite things such as colour, football club, friends, girlfriend / boyfriend, food, most used words, clothing, animal, playing time...

Foto no dia de aniversário, à hora do nascimento: 

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Photo on the anniversary day at the birth time:

André

2004

2005

2006

2007 

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

Tiago

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012