A Continent Study of AFRICA for Kids
Monday, February 16, 2015
The Study of Ancient Egypt
Friday, February 13, 2015
Here’s a collection of activities for Ancient Egypt Study. We’ve been using the books The Story of the World Vol 1 and The Usborne Ancient World [aff.link] as our guide and references. This is the first time we’ve ever had an Egypt Study and I was very happy of how Mavi showed so much interest.
The Desert. Learning all about the desert and the environment of Egypt. We used oatmeal to represent the sand and the figures seen here are from Safari Toobs.
Mummification. We tried to apply what we’ve learned of how mummies are made. Here we prepared a few spices and a tissue wrap to embalm our skeleton model (sorry we did not have any human model LOL). So after wrapping the body, we placed it in sarcophagus (box) and added jewels for the buried King to bring with him in the after life.Familiarization with the Egypt Map and the Nile River. We used the worksheet from The Story of the World Vol 1 to recreate the map in a painting. This will familiarize the child of Egypt’s geography . See how Mavi made his Nile Delta and the river met in the Mediterranean Sea.
Ancient Egypt Toob. These are fantastic! The figures are so detailed and Mavi loved examining each one. Here, we are learning about each figure (vocabulary) so he’s researching in the internet and the book what each means/represent. The cards are from Memorizing the Moments.
Pyramids. Mavi recreated the pyramids using his LEGO. That’s supposed to be three pyramids, but Vito played and broke the smallest one.
Papyrus. We also made this using parchment paper! See how we did it here!
And that’s how we study Ancient Egypt. Next year, when we revisit our World History lessons, we’ll dig a little bit deeper on this subject :) Hope you like this post. Have fun!
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Friday, February 6, 2015
Materials needed:
- Glue mixture. (mix 1 cup of flour with 2 cups of water)
- strips of parchment paper. You can use anything you like here, but I decided to use parchment paper to make it more realistic
- Aluminium foil
- kitchen towel
- rolling pin
Geological Time Scale with Safari Toobs
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Last year, I was able to purchase the Cambrian and Prehistoric Life Toobs from Amazon because it was on sale. I’ve always wanted to have them so we can use the figures in our Geological Time lesson. Remember the first time Mavi and I had the lesson at home? It was a hit! He love it so much! His interest came to light when he started reading the Universe Trilogy:
After which he started to do his own “timeline” by connecting the dots in the stories (based on the books). Because we didn’t have the appropriate figures, our representation of the timeline is incomplete. And finally, these toobs were on sale and we just have to finish what we started!
So here are the additional toobs that we used (aside from the dinosaur toobs)":
The Cambrian Toob. Loooove them! They are so colourful and the details! OMG!
The Prehistoric Life Miniatures. Love this well! Too bad it doesn’t have enough animal figures on it though. But we love it anyway.
So here are my boys, Mavi putting things in action. I made the paper mat. I simply added the label on the side.
And Vito, taking away the items from the mat and destroying everything that Mavi has created LOL.
Ahhh… here it is! I finally got the chance to snap a photo of Mavi’s work while the little one is napping.
Pictures below how Mavi would research each of the figures. Yes I’m beginning to teach him to do research using the web. He’s getting there, he loves reading out loud his discoveries (soon I’ll teach him how to take down notes!). I told him we can do research in books and in the internet nowadays. I also made labels for each figures. They are actually etched on each but it so difficult to read.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Holiday Homecoming Part II
Sunday, January 25, 2015
The highlights of our stay at my parents house were the New Year's celebration and our island beach escapade.
It is a tradition in our family to gather and celebrate all together on New Year’s eve. It was Mavi’s first time to party with his grandparents, uncles and aunties.. and cousins! (Sorry can’t post family pictures for privacy :D)
Seeing a whole roasted pig for the first time.
I was teaching him how to light a sparkler!
And the little boy so interested with this horn.
After the New Year, we headed out to an island beach resort which is 4 hrs drive from home. I really wanted Mavi to experience how we enjoy the beach in the Philippines. It’s not just about swimming in the water but doing lots of play and island adventure as well.
Making sandcastle :)
Island hopping with cousin
Beach
Starfish!
Cave!
Riding in front of the fishing boat is so much compared to being inside. Mavi with my not so little brother.
Early morning walk at the beach, finding dead corals, shells and hermit crabs!
Oh we are missing all of these already!!
My son suffered separation anxiety for awhile. But I comforted him that we’ll have lots of family adventures here as well once it is springtime. I know its different with other families and relatives around, but we can’t do anything about it since they’re millions miles away from us. I love it that Mavi appreciated the trip, that he was able to appreciate the presence of other family members and felt the love that they have for him (and his brother).
Now I can’t wait to go back! LOL
Montessori Practical Life: Folding Clothes
Saturday, January 17, 2015
We're back from our 3 weeks vacation and it was amazing! Now I'll save details on a separate post, for now allow me to show you how Mavi has been very helpful for the past few days. I give credit to the years of training of practical life activities based on Maria Montessori philosophy.
The traditional work in the family is known as the practical life work and is the most important area of an education for life. These practical life activities provides children the groundwork for physical, mental and social development. And what’s more important is that it’ll teach them the work habits that will lead to success in academic and in all aspects of life later.
One of the chores I dread doing is folding the laundry. My husband usually do this for me, but since he's busy most of the time, the folding doesn't get done and the laundry would pile up at times. Now this is where Mavi comes in handy. I gave him the responsibility of folding his own clothes, sort and put them directly in his closet.
To start with, Mavi would sort his own clothes from the pile of laundry.
I placed masking tape on his shirt, pants and underpants and these serves as a guide for folding. There's a number on the tape to indicate which one he will fold first.
He enjoys folding as he finds the approach “scientific” due to the order of how you fold a piece.
For now, I’m giving him the task to fold his own clothes. Once he masters this, then he can fold his little brother’s clothes.
At the end, he's happy that he was able to help, felt accomplished and proud that he was able to contribute something for Mommy.
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12 Practical Life Christmas Activities: On the 5th day…
Monday, December 8, 2014
Painting a Monet-inspired Christmas tree.
Remember how I raved about the books of James Mayhew (the Katie series)? We'll one of our favourite books is the Katie Meets the Impressionist [aff. link]. We talked about the style of Monet and why he is called an “impressionist” artist.
And since its Christmas, we use the Christmas tree as an inspiration.
Below, we work together all the time. His and hers.
We dabbed and smeared our drawing paper with green for the tree. He used a pencil to draw a triangle outline as guide which is not visible in the picture. Then we added details for the balls, lights, stars and presents under the tree.
Mavi’s tree.
Now here’s a macro look of our tree…