Arctic Diorama
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Polar Activities for Preschoolers
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Winter Printables: Ten Frames Counting Activities
Monday, December 18, 2017
The Nativity and Story Cards
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Hands-on Activity on Comparing Numbers
Monday, December 4, 2017
Christmas Themed Tray Activities for Preschoolers
Friday, December 1, 2017
Montessori Inspired Continent 3 Part Cards and Booklet
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
One thing that I love with making our own learning materials is that I get to customize them according to the kids’ liking. One of these materials is the continent learning printables I made last year which we often use. At first, Vito would match it according to colors, now that he’s older, he’s trying to know the names of the continents, especially the ones where he’s been to.
Beginning Letter Sound Activity Sheets
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Thanksgiving Themed Rhyme and Beginning Letter Sound BINGO Game
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Learning Addition Using Montessori Stamp Game
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Weather and Clouds (FREE Cloud Cards)
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
We have a brief afterschool activity on clouds and weather.
We use the same Cloud Cards I have last year and discuss it once again. It was quite cloudy so we just view the clouds from his room and try to identify the cloud based on his cards. We discuss each type of clouds, whether it tells us if its going to rain or to be sunny.
For the free cards, click the picture below for the link.
So now to recreate the clouds, we used a blue cardstock paper and some paints. We previously had this activity but used cottons for the cloud formation, this time he wanted to paint.
That's his handwriting on the label.
And he wanted to add more details (black ink in the outline).
To recreate contrails, he made an airplane, named it BOEING 767, cut it and stick it on a paper. He added the contrails using the white paint.
For the weather, we watched some videos on Youtube based on the Weather Cards that we have. We talked about the cause and effect of these weathers and if possible how to avoid calamities.
Then we tried recreating some of them.... first one is the earthquake. The best that we do was to use his Lego. He made a city and then he started shaking the plate pretending to have an earthquake.
And lastly, he wanted drought. He crumpled some brown art paper, strip them into smaller pieces and stick them individually on a piece of paper. He made some animals dying due to water loss and made his sun reddish to indicate a very very hot day.
We didn't get to recreate some of the weather conditions as we were also doing some school related stuff.
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Water Cycle
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Last week we had our Water Cycle activities. My son has been watching some Make Me Genius videos and he specifically requested for this topic.
Here are our activities and the materials we used.
Below is a printed material I got from the internet. Since I didn't have a book to showcase the water cycle to my little I randomly search for an image that can present in detail the water cycle. The image comes from here.
Below is a water cycle puzzle which I downloaded for free from this beautiful blog. We worked on this last, when my son has absorbed the idea of the cycle.
For coloring and reading practice, I got these activities sheets from Kidzone. After we read the paragraphs and color the images, he ordered the stages of the cycle.
For a little craft and scissor practice I made him do a little project demonstrating the water cycle given the prepared materials (he prepared it with my assistance). So with a mountain, land, sun, ocean and raindrops he arranged it in a way that it will explain how cycle works. We used cottons for the clouds by the way.
He asked to use water colors to make the clouds gray :)
And this is what he came up with. I asked him to indicate the stages so I can put a label.
Next post is on our experiment on the water cycle and later on we'll also talk about the weather and the clouds. Weather cards which I prepared for our weather unit is now available. Click on the picture below for the link.
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Updates on Math and Language
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
And so we've been doing language and math seriously this summer. So here's what we have accomplished so far:
Language. Initially we were working with kindergarten workbook, but he finished it in no time and seems bored so I upgraded him to a first grader workbook (bought it in a local bookstore) and so far he is liking it. He loves the challenge and the work book got lots of reading comprehension exercises which I really really like.
And we are also working on digraphs using my Consonant Blends Worksheets. He has no problem identifying the consonant blends (beginning and ending) but when it comes to filling up the missing digraph, he's still a little bit confused in some areas.
Math. We are still on Booklet 2 and Addition Chart 3 of Montessori Addition. We will proceed with Charts 4 and 5 once we're done with Booklet 2. You can read about Montessori Addition here and download my addition booklets from Pinay Homeschooler Shop and Downloads.
Lastly, I we're using Singapore Math workbook (K1). Compared to the workbooks here, I love the scope of Singapore Math. It covers graphing, logic and more. I ordered this book from my friend lives in Singapore and they can usually be bought here: Popular Bookstore. They're very affordable, the only problem here is shipping cost.
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Artist & Art Study ~ Piet Mondrian
Monday, August 19, 2013
Today we learned how to make art, the Mondrian style. He is a Dutch artist who loves to use lines, and his famous work involves the primary colors (a good way to teach primary and secondary colors!) My son described his work as Church windows :)
First, we read stories and facts about Mondrian and pointed Netherlands in our Europe map and identified its flag. (This is a good way to review our Geography/Continent Study) We used this resource from Making Art Fun.
I cut out strips of black cardstock and had my son decorate his own "doors and windows". First he I made him use primary colors using crayons.
And the next one, I made him use paints in secondary colors.
And this is what he came up with.
I love how it turned it! I'm keeping all our works from our Artist Study so I can frame them when I have the time :)
By the way, here's a Mondrian Song I came across the web (Forgot the link, but if you know it or own please let me know for the credits). We sang it together while admiring his work.
Mondrian Song (London Bridge Tune)
Mondrian use lots of lines, lots of lines, lots of lines
Mondrian use lots of lines, in his paintings.
Black and white, red, yellow and blue, black, white, red, yellow, blue
Mondrian is famous for, Abstract Paintings.
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Whales and Dolphins (with links to FREEbies)
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Here's how what we did for the past few days, working on our whales and dolphins theme.
Arts and Crafts
I printed out a pattern of killer whale and humpback whale from LearnCreateLove.com for us to paint. We could out the different parts and had my son assemble it and add some decors on it.
Parts of a Whale
For the parts of a whale, we used our nomenclature card and booklet.
I also have a dolphin nomenclature and booklet set if you are interested.
We love using these cards. My son loves to compare the parts of the whale to his body parts. And we love our Safari Toob figures too! They're so detailed that you can even see the blowholes on the figures :)
The printable comes with an activity sheet for little ones to color and write a label.
Books for reading
Most of these were from the library. I included a Tagalog book about whales because my son loves learning the Philippine's national language :)
Different kinds of whales and dolphins
One of the books has a detailed description of each animal so we used it to learn about the different kinds of whales and dolphins as well as our matching and fact cards.
(Click this picture for the link)
How deep do they dive?
I came across this wonderful site and downloaded their Teacher's Guide on Whales (for Kindergarten). The document is a haven of information on whales and dolphins and it got lots of activities for you and your kids to try. We did How Deep Do They Dive? pages 24-25 of the document.
We were able to differentiate which mammal dives deeper using the graph.
Whales and dolphins skip counting cards
And finally, you can also work on the skip counting with this cards! Just click on the picture below for the link.
And that's it for our whales and dolphins! Hope this would help you in case you will try this unit.
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