Australia/Oceania in a Nutshell
Monday, January 4, 2016
History Timeline Cards: Ancient Times
Monday, November 30, 2015
Up in the Shop is our World History: Ancient Times Timeline Cards and Booklet. The file includes the following:
- 40 timeline cards of the ancient times (occurred between the period of 5000BC to 500BC). The timeline cards has
- 40 definition cards for each timeline card
- 3 pages of timeline sheets can be connected to form as a guide. The pages are in A4 paper size.
Hope you like it, enjoy!
Learning the Timeline of European History
Monday, November 16, 2015
Pre-K Problem Solving Cards
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Mavi didn’t like math. When he was around 5yrs old, he would rather read books than work with math. He’s excuse would always be “I’m tired” or “it’s difficult”. I can truly understand him though. I didn’t enjoy math when I was younger. Until I stepped into secondary school and discovered why we need math.
So instead of forcing him to solve arithmetic problems and giving him number activities, I exposed him to real life problems so he can appreciate math. I made him understand WHY WE NEED TO LEARN NUMBERS AND MATH. We would go to the groceries and count our items all together, doing addition and subtraction in between. Of course, he’s not aware we’re doing math, all he knows is that he’s helping Mommy do some groceries. At home, I secretly incorporate addition and subtraction by counting his missing pens, his toys and how many books he has read.
He loves the real life math! He can’t stand arithmetic problems but he enjoys real life problems. So what I did was create a bunch of colorful cards for us to work on, making sure there’s pictures (and we mostly use counters as well) to make it attractive. In the problems, I used his friends’ name so he’ll like it, and of course he finds it funny! He kept asking for more, more questions as he liked solving the problems. And that was the game changer.
Through these problem solving cards, he was able to appreciate math, and could now understand why he needs to practice arithmetic. He loves to solve math problems these days on his own and still loves solving problems.
So I created these problem solving cards for Pre-K students. It contains:
- 1 step problem solving for addition and subtraction
- 12 unique questions for addition within 10 (with pictures)
- 12 unique questions for subtraction within 10 (with pictures)
- 12 fill-in questions for addition to let the parents change the numbers for more practice (for advanced students, based on the questions with pictures). You can use counters for this.
- 12 fill-in questions for subtraction to let the parents change the numbers for more practice (for advanced students, based on the questions with pictures). You can use counters for this.
Mavi worked on these cards when he was 5-6yrs old. Though this is intended for 5-6yrs old children, older or younger kids can still use the cards as a practice material. Hope you like it and find it useful like we do. Thanks!
Classifying Vertebrate Animals
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
EUROPE in a Nutshell
Monday, October 12, 2015
South America in a Nutshell
Monday, July 20, 2015
The Plant Kingdom
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Presenting to you Plant Kingdom printable material. We used this recently in our Plant Kingdom nature study. This is perfect for grade-schoolers who want to learn and understand all about the world of plants and how they are classified.
The Animal Kingdom
Saturday, February 7, 2015
When your kids are a bit old, it would be nice to introduce them to the much bigger picture. This will help them understand that a starfish is NOT a fish and that sponges are animals! Mavi learned a lot from this lesson and help him understand why animals are classified.
The file includes:
- The Animal Kingdom MASTER Chart in A4 SIZE
- Chart with pictures only (no labels) in A4 SIZE
- Chart with labels only in A4 SIZE
- Chart with no pictures and labels in A4 SIZE
- 15 cards with pictures and labels to form the chart
- 15 cards with pictures and no labels (for 3 part card use)
- 15 label cards (for 3 part card use)
- Matching definition cards
Number Bonds Activity Sheets (with FREE version)
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Word Families and Rhyming Cards (Complete Pack)
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
- 42 word families (picture cards)
- Each family contains at least 4 words that rhymes and these words are in the same word family.
- There are some words that have 4 additional rhyme words with different spelling (are not member of the word family). This will show the child that words that rhyme can have different spelling or may come from other word families.
- Control or Master Chart
- Slider Cards for reading practice for each word family
The Arthropods Learning Material (with FREE Files)
Thursday, June 12, 2014
FREE Butterfly Definition and Nomenclature Cards
Friday, May 30, 2014
- The Ant Learning Pack
- The Caterpillar Learning Pack
- The Grasshopper Learning Pack
- The Insect Learning Pack
Well, that's all for now. Have a lovely weekend!
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Introducing Vertebrate Animals to Kids
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
The Animal Kingdom and Vertebrate Sorting Cards
A few weeks ago, I created these learning materials to explore the Animal Kingdom with Mavi. He has been obsessed with animals again and dinosaurs as well! So I was thinking that its probably the best time to get him into this study.
Here are the materials that we have used in the following activities, "Exploring the Animal Kingdom for Kids" and "Introducing Vertebrate Animals to Kids".
- 6 pictures of amphibians
- 6 pictures of reptiles
- 6 pictures of fish
- 6 pictures of birds
- 6 pictures of mammals
- master control chart
- definition for each animal classification
- The Animal Kingdom MASTER Chart in A4 SIZE
- Chart with pictures only (no labels) in A4 SIZE
- Chart with labels only in A4 SIZE
- Chart with no pictures and labels in A4 SIZE
- 15 cards with pictures and labels to form the chart
- 15 cards with pictures and no labels (for 3 part card use)
- 15 label cards (for 3 part card use)
- Matching definition cards
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The Animal Kingdom Learning Material
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
I'm so happy that my laminator arrived yesterday and I was busy laminating these cards (thus my absence in blogging).
This is my Animal Kingdom learning material. It is a PDF file which you can download from here, The Animal Kingdom Learning Pack, or by clicking the pictures below. It consist of the following:
- The Animal Kingdom MASTER Chart in A4 SIZE
- Chart with pictures only (no labels) in A4 SIZE
- Chart with labels only in A4 SIZE
- Chart with no pictures and labels in A4 SIZE
- 15 cards with pictures and labels to form the chart
- 15 cards with pictures and no labels (for 3 part card use)
- 15 label cards (for 3 part card use)
- Matching definition cards
Oh they look so lovely once laminated! Don't mind the lines on that image of the starfish. That's just my printer who's already low on ink :(
So the file has 9 invertebrates and 5 vertebrates and they all come with definition cards that you can read with your kids (or let your kids read them if they are already a reader).
Hope you like it! Thank you!
European Countries (Territory Outlines)
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Greetings!
We're revisiting our Europe Study this month and I've been a little bit busy adding more materials to our study. Last year, I published these learning materials for a Europe Study Unit and now I came up with new ones that we can use to have a better understanding of this continent.
I have here the 43 European countries in their territorial map outlines/contours. There are two files available: map in outlines and map in solid black (click the image for the link).
These materials aim to help Mavi identify the countries of Europe by just looking at the contour of a specific country. I remember when I was in high school we would do this in History class but of course, it only involves Asian countries.
My son definitely loves this. He enjoys matching the cards to our Europe Puzzle Map. I have to say though that some contours can really be challenging to match!
If you don't own a wooden puzzle map, you can still use the file as this is a 3-part card which means it includes picture cards and labels as well.
By the way, I printed out the ones with the outlines only as I am saving black ink :) But I find the solid black ones so pretty!
I have a few more materials to publish in the next few days. I can't wait to share it with you!
Oh, for other references please read about our 2013 Europe Study here and here.
Thank you!
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Our Printable Materials for February
Friday, January 24, 2014
Hello everyone! I would like to announce 3 new materials that we will be using for the month of February. If you are interested, just click on the images for the link and detailed description of each file.
Parts of the Human Body (new!) in English, Spanish, French and Deutsch
- contains 16 parts of the human body in FOUR different languages!
Basic Human Body Systems (new!)
- this file contains 6 basic systems: circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, digestive,muscular and nervous system.
The Internal Organs of the Human Body (new!)
- the file includes 9 internal organs of the body: brain, pancreas, heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, stomach, small and large intestines.
The Skeletal System
- the file has 16 parts of the skeletal system.
Hope you get a copy! Thank you!
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
My Adventure Book (North America Edition)
Monday, November 18, 2013
I'm happy to announce that My Adventure Book for North America is now available! It covers three countries of North America: Canada, Mexico and the United States. My first release was Australia/Oceania and Mavi loved it. We had a wonderful time learning all about Australia... and you can read about it here, here and here.
This is just in time to for a brief introductory of the United States for Mavi in this month of US Thanksgiving. And we'll also be using our Turkey Nomenclature and Definition Booklet to complete the theme :)
Each country in the file contains:
- Fact sheet
- Meaning and use of the country's flag and coat of arms
- Maps of the country
- Biomes and landmarks
- Known animals existing on each country
- Famous people
- Famous cuisine/food
- DIY postcards, images for coloring, postage stamps, immigration stamps for play pretend
- And activity sheets
- Spanish and French Salutation Flash Cards (For Mexico and Canada)
Here's how I keep them in clear folder. We'll be working with Mexico tomorrow (Mavi's special request)
Hoping that you will try it! Thank you!
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Turkey Nomenclature Card and Definition Booklet
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Look what I made for our Thanksgiving Theme activity this month!
The file contains:
- 13 picture cards
- 13 labels
- 13 control cards
- 13 definitions for booklet
- activity sheets
- title cards
Hope you like it. Enjoy!
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