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We are all in love with our wooden London Playset/s which we acquired recently. It’s so precious and beautiful that I can’t seem to take it out the bag!
Now how do we use these figures?
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We are all in love with our wooden London Playset/s which we acquired recently. It’s so precious and beautiful that I can’t seem to take it out the bag!
Now how do we use these figures?
A few weeks ago, while were doing an Australia Unit, Mavi and I talked about the animals in Australia and in which habitat they belong. We’ve done this years ago but it’s always nice to revisit and add a little depth in the topic.
Mavi can’t get enough of these facts cards from my Nutshell Geography series! He wants us to play this when in the car, or when we're walking home. I would ask him a questions based on the facts and he’s going to tell me the continent or the country it’s connected to. We developed a scheme of giving him 3 clues (mostly letters from the answers) and I am PROBIHIBITED to give the answer. It’s amazing how both Mavi and I enjoyed it. So happy that we found a new way to use these cards!
These cards are from:
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Here’s my presentation of the landform cards. Although this was not the first time Mavi encountered the cards, he was more than excited to use our new Montessori materials because this time, it has textures! Plus, it helped that we have this Learning Resources Transportation counters to use with our cards! You can get this from any Montessori shop or from Amazon. (Mine is from Tower High learning)
If you want you want to see our introduction to landforms, read it here.I created the description cards that you see in the photo. I love doing this and let Mavi read :) It is my way of letting him practice reading, not just in books.
Now the transportation counters helped a LOT in my presentation. It helped me demonstrate where’s the land and water in the cards. Such a perfect tool for visual presentation!
And they are so cute! They’re really worth-it! So here are my additional materials to help me with the topic.
Here’s the 6 landform materials (out of 8). Aren’t they so beautiful?
We’ll do more of this in the coming weeks as we explore countries and continents via Five in a Row. Hope you like this post!
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From Amazon: “Lyrical, breathtaking, splendid—words used to describe Allen Say’s Grandfather’s Journey when it was first published. At once deeply personal yet expressing universally held emotions, this tale of one man’s love for two countries and his constant desire to be in both places captured readers’ attention and hearts. Winner of the 1994 Caldecott Medal, it remains as historically relevant and emotionally engaging as ever.”
I was forced to read this book because this is the first book in the FIAR list that’s in our possession. Forced in a sense that, it doesn’t look interesting at all. The cover is lousy, with dull colours and doesn’t look like a children’s book at all.
But oh boy, I was wrong. It is true indeed that you should not judge the book by its cover. Once Mavi opened the book and started reading, we were glued! The story is so simple, yet it touched our hearts. Mavi and I immediately fell in love with story as we see ourselves in the character. We are expats, and we both love two countries. There’s depth and emotions in the story. After reading this book, we were so overwhelmed with emotions that we began missing the Philippines.
A very good book for kids. The book has large pictures with easy to read texts. I love the simplicity of it and how easily a child can read this. Now I understand why it received a Caldecott Medal :)
This book can also be purchased at Book Depository (free shipping!). Seen in the picture: Japan flag using LEGO, transport counters from Learning Resources and a bird origami.
Now listen to my 6 years old son, narrating the story:
Here are the activities for the first chapter of the Story of the World Vol 1 Earliest People. (Based on the Activity Book Vol 1) [Affiliate link]
Map and Activity Sheets
I took a photo of Mavi’s interpretation of the nomads living inside a tent and with a campfire.
Cave Painting
The book also suggests that you try cave painting (pretend) as a means of communication or recording of events.
LEGO Project
As much as possible to we love to incorporate LEGO in our work. So here we made Jericho, the first city… just as the book described it.
If you’ve been following my blog, we started our Asia Unit last month and so far we successfully completed our Southeast Asia Study. In this post, I present to you materials and activities we worked last week for East Asia.
Maps and Flags
As you all by now, we ALWAYS start our continent/country study with maps and flags. This will familiarize the child of the subject’s location and each of the country’s national symbol. For the East Asia, we identified three major countries: China, Japan and South Korea
Materials:
Again, we used Lego to recreate flags. This activity is similar to our Southeast Asia flag activity.
Famous Landmarks
We have painting/crafts activity and Lego play. Our tablet is very useful for this activity. We used it to view pictures (for clear view) and watch videos related to our study.
Materials
Famous landmark for Japan is Mount Fuji
We chose Great Walls of China as our subject here. Here we use our fact cards, which Mavi reads while we view the bigger picture in our tablet.
Calligraphy
We are using the Japanese numbers in this activity. I painted the characters on papers and cut them for presentation. Now Mavi has to make the characters as well.
After the activity, Mavi was like “Mom it is so difficult!”.
Animals
We’ve studied Asian Animals previously, so in this activity we’re doing a Panda puzzle. I printed this from DLTK Kids, and Mavi has to color and form the Panda according to the cheat card.
Arts and Crafts
We made oriental fans and learned how to make origami items. For the oriental fans, we used paper plates, used watercolor for the background and black tempera paint for the details. Our origami papers are homemade because the real ones are so expensive in this side of the world. They’re colored crafts paper and I cut them to a size of 6 x 6 inches.
Books
We used lots of books, but here are my son’s favourites [aff.links]:
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