Learning about Flowers
Monday, January 16, 2012
I reused our dining table flowers and pulled out a flower themed activity last week.
I made him dissect the flowers and I was so happy to see him in awe discovering what the flower is made up. Using the Flower Nomenclature cards, we first identified the parts using the real flower that we have. For me, it would be easier for him to grasp the concept if we use real flowers instead of just playing around with the printables.
I talked about the parts as we took each card, and the role it plays in the whole plant system. When we’re done exploring the parts and telling stories about them, we played the matching game using the nomenclature cards. I am pretty amazed how he can easily match the labels even if he doesn’t know how to read them yet.
Then we did flower painting activities. It’s been a long time since we had a painting activity and I was glad that he was more interested with it this time. The moment I placed the paints in front of him, he knows exactly what to paint... clouds and trees!
I later asked him if he could paint some flowers. He asked me to show him how to do it which I did. A moment later, I came back to check on his work and saw this painting of a red flower. I was speechless! He hasn’t done any painting activity before and he came up with this!
With this I am so inspired to teach him more... more ideas on what to paint.
We will be doing more plants and flowers activity in the next few days and I hope it’ll be as fun and enjoyable as this.
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Update on our Pink Series
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Learning how to tell the TIME
Monday, January 9, 2012
Color Mixing
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Our first activity for 2012!
I’ve been wanting to introduce this to Mavi for a loooonnnggg time but I’m always hesitant. You know why? He doesn’t have his own table and chair yet! So that’s what we gave him last Christmas. Mind you, this is his 3RD table set. As you know, we’ve been moving countries from the past 2 years, so the first one was left in Belgrade and the second was given to my nephew in Singapore. Thus, this is the third and hopefully the last!
Going back... I placed his table set in the kitchen since we will be dealing with water. I bought food coloring (naturals are washable) from the grocery store and poured a few drops of primary colors on the ice tray. I told him we’ll be mixing colors and see what colors we can come up with. Oh boy, he was so so excited!
First I mixed blue and yellow... and he shouted “It’s green!”. Then I asked him what happens if we mix yellow and orange(I did this while I mix the colors), and we came with orange and he shouted “It’s orange Mama!”. We did the same with purple as well.
Then he asked if he can do color mixing on his own. He was experimenting a lot of colors! He even came up with a grey color.
By the way, I used a medicine dropper. So aside from teaching him all about color mixing, I was also demonstrating how to use a medicine dropper... that we can use it to transfer water from one container to another. He struggled at first... but I kept on saying “squeeze and release” whenever he would dip it on the water. I made him practice a few times as he was frustrated that he can’t get any water into the dropper. Well, he was persistent so he finally figured out how it works.
I also made him do this... putting water drops on marks using medicine dropper. Well, it’s his first time so he still can’t control the water coming out of the dropper. But he loved doing this. One time when we did this activity again, he made a car using the medicine dropper.
Just a note, I discovered that some food coloring can stain your hands. I bought a Natural food coloring for red and yellow, thus the one that stained on my son’s hands is blue color.
Happy mixing!
Welcome 2012!
Monday, January 2, 2012
Hello everyone! I’m back!
Well we haven’t resume regular homeschooling yet due to loads of work that needs to be done. Though I have made a few plans for our curriculum but I plan to execute it next month. For now, activities for Mavi will be random, we’ll be reusing old resources and if I’m in the mood we’ll be doing new ones.
Anyway for this year, I plan to:
- Continue B4FIAR now that Homeschool Creations have available printables for subject units.
- We’ll do Geography! Yes! I am so excited for this. I’ve been preparing materials for quite a while now... thus I needed the time this month to finish my printables. I plan to focus on countries we’ve been to like Singapore and Philippines for Asia :)
- Introduce worksheets in the mid of this year.
- Blue series and lots of reading practice.
And a whole lot more! Whatever comes into my mind... or whenever I get inspired by some homeschool blogs.
So there you go... my plans for 2012.
Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful new year!
Christmas Themed Activities
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Due to my work loads and activities, I’ve been missing here in the blogosphere for quite a while. It’s a good thing I take pictures though, and organize it weekly in that way I can easily track and document them easily.
So here are some of the “Christmas” themed activities we did for the past few days, most of which are Montessori related.
Sorting pony beads using a tweezer. Surprisingly, he finished it without my assistance considering that this is his first time to use a tweezer.
Scooping red and green pompoms using a milk powder scoop.
Stringing pony beads by colors using pipe cleaners.
He finished all of it breezily!
One time I caught him doing this to our hand towel. I asked him what he’s doing and told me “I’m ironing. Just like Lola Merlit.” (Lola Merlit means Grandma Merlit) . This is a surprise because the last time we were home (my parent’s house) was July. He still remembers what his Grandmother do at home!
Peeling foam stickers during our Alpha Christmas Countdown.
I am still on the process of learning how to organize some of these stuff properly. Currently, I am collecting food coloring so I can create colored pasta and at the same time do some color mixing activities.
Wishing everyone a happy Tuesday!
Homeschool Wrap-Up (12.5 – 12.9)
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
It’s so difficult these days to keep up with blogging! Since I still work (at home) I always procrastinate updating my blog and would rather playing with the little one.
Here are the things we did last week.
Instead of doing Advent Calendar, we made letter crafts for our Christmas Countdown. I talked about it here.
We talked about polar bears. This Usborne Beginner’s book has wonderful book about polar bears. It’s been my son’s favorite since I got it for him.
I also made control cards based on our Arctic Toob for matching game.
For math, I downloaded these penguins activity cards from Making Learning Fun. Here, Mavi is learning how to measure the temperature by reading the thermometer:) On the other picture, Mavi is practicing his learning skills by feeding the penguins with “candies”.
He worked on his number puzzle.
We also did some patterning activities using printables from 2 Teaching Mommies.
Aside from reading books and learning to read words using this, we also worked on our Alpha Phonics Boxes... by sorting objects starting with letters ‘dejyjkwvz’.
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