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Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts

Oceania/Australia in a Nutshell - New Edition

Monday, June 29, 2020

After 5 years, I am finally publishing an updated version of our OCEANIA/AUSTRALIA IN A NUTSHELL.  This is a COMPLETE and COMPREHENSIVE learning material of everything you needed to know about OCEANIA continent countries.  You will find that this pack has a variety of reading materials suited for kids of all ages, and includes tons of extension activities.  This is perfect for Montessori school and homeschool settings and would work well in your continent studies or geography units.

Oceania Australia in a Nutshell
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Oceania Australia Animals Math Packet

Friday, January 24, 2020

This math learning resource set is a perfect companion to our OCEANIA ANIMALS 3 PART CARDS AND OCEANIA ANIMALS LITERACY PACKET. This pack contains 12 different sets of math printable activities designed for preschool through kindergarten. You can introduce each set in any order depending on the child's capacity to learn and interest. This is a high quality material made with attention to detail and contains beautiful illustrations.
Oceania Australia Animals Math Learning Material
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at 11:22:00 PM Labels: animal study, animals, Australia, continent study, geography, kindergarten, learning materials, learning resources, Montessori, Montessori materials, Oceania, Oceania unit study, preschool
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Montessori Inspired Animal Continents Activity Sheets

Sunday, February 12, 2017

I am so happy to share our Animal Continents Activity Sheets.  Mavi helped me assemble this learning material for identifying the different animals that thrive in each continent.  We’ve used the Antarctica and Asia sheets already and I can’t wait to try the rest with Vito.

Montessori Inspired Animal Continents Activity Sheets
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Hands-on Learning: Biomes of Australia

Thursday, January 28, 2016

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. 

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Australia/Oceania in a Nutshell

Monday, January 4, 2016

My Australia in a Nutshell learning pack is finally available in the SHOP!  It took me awhile to complete this set because of the holiday season.  I’ve been receiving a lot of requests from readers to publish this set but I’ve been too preoccupied for the past weeks.

Australia/Oceania in a Nutshell
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There's nothing like... AUSTRALIA (Part II)

Monday, September 23, 2013

This post is waaaay past its due date LOL  We've been busy for the past few days and I can't seem to include this in my schedule.  Good thing, it is a school day today and the little guy is in school and that gives me enough time to write about the second part of our Australia study.

To start with, we discuss about the animals that can be seen in Australia. 

Animals

Using the Animals of Australia/Oceania Nomenclature and Fact Cards and the Safari Toob Down Under, we talked about the habitats and the diets of these animals, juxtaposed to the biomes as well.

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And there's the Parts of a Kangaroo (Nomenclature and Definition Booklet).  (Click the picture for the link)

the kangaroo copy

And Mavi continued working on the identification of the body parts and added labels onto it.

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Biomes

We discuss biomes as well, which is something new to him and he loves it! Read about here.

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We work on the activity sheets that is included in My Adventure Book: Australia

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Map works

For the studying the map, again using My Adventure Book: Australia, we talked about the different states and territories of Australia and he worked on the activity sheet which I provided. (He's obsessed with coloring as of the moment) iDSC_1370 

Flag

I gave him options on how to go about the flag and he wanted to paint it :) 

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Aboriginal Arts

We did these few days ago.

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Postcard from Australia

And lastly,we created our postcard to send it to a friend.

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Activity sheets, maps and information pages of Australia that was used in this study is all in My Adventure Book (Australia/Oceania).

Other related stories for studying Australia as a country and continent:

There's nothing like... Australia (Part I)

Biomes of Australia

Aboriginal Arts

Continent Study: Australia

My Adventure Book (Australia/Oceania)

 

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Biomes of Australia

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

I made these "biomes mat" based on the My Adventure Book (Australia/Oceania) for hands-on learning.  It's made up of felt paper glued on a cardstock for durability.  Then I printed pictures for each biomes so my son will have an idea how they actually look like.  I also added handwritten labels.

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The objects of the activity are:

  • to identify the biomes of Australia
  • to distinguish the difference of each biome (I used the description chart included in the book I mentioned above)
  • to sort out the the animals of Australia based on its habitat-biome it thrives (Animals of Australia / Oceania)

These are the animals cards we used (Animals of Australia / Oceania).

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And for the animals, I used the Safari Toob Down Under.

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And here's my son working on the activity.  I looooovee how effective this technique is, because if I would just use worksheets first and just talk about biomes without a hands-on activity, for sure I won't get his attention.  But this one, he loves sorting the animals and the felt mats really helped!

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Aboriginal Arts

Monday, September 16, 2013

You've been following me on Facebook, I've shared pictures of our work of Aboriginal arts.  This is still in line with our Australia study (Part I here). Sorry if some pictures are dark as we've been doing the activities late in the afternoon.

To start with, we talked about the Aborigines of Australia and how they use paintings or artworks to communicate.  I used our trusted iPad to check some pictures of the artworks and made my son choose which one he wanted to replicate (he wanted the turtle).

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I also pointed out that most arts of the Aborigine people uses the technique of Pointillism.  We talked about how we can execute it using the back of pencils or using Qtips/buds. 

When we're done studying the pictures, we started making our version as well.  Here we used red background with contrasting colors for the dots.

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Another day he asked if we could do it again.  And this time I printed out from a random Google search a ready made art for him to color.

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We allowed all the artworks to dry and here's how they look like now that they're dry.  The one on the upper left is my work :)

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My son enjoyed the painting, especially with animals on it.   The problem is that he doesn't like pointillism, for he gets tired after making a few dots. 

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There's nothing like... AUSTRALIA (Part I)

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Hello everyone!! It's been a productive week so far :)  I'm so excited to share with you our little adventure to Australia, the homeschooling way.  90% of the ideas here comes from my son, so I am just giving him what he wants.  For him, this is just play pretend but little does he know that he's also learning!

So to start with, here's what I made and prepared for him:   'My Adventure Book (Australia/New Zealand)' which I will launch tomorrow, so please watch out for it :)  and his pretend passport.  The passport is not that fancy.  I simply printed a cover page out of the coat of arms of our country and put titles on it.  I used maroon cardstock as a cover because it is the color of our passport. The information page is also based on our passport and the rest of the pages are just blank.  Sorry if I have to distort the information to keep my son's privacy :)

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And since we need VISA for Australia, I made Visa and immigration stamps (entry and exit) to make our little adventure more "believable".  These are included in My Adventure Book package. 

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I made a map... just the outline and printed it in a brown cardstock.  This way, Mavi will be familiar of the shape of Australia and the flag was just from a random Google search.  The figures are from Safari Toob, and I included a coral and scuba diver to represent the Great Barrier Reef. 

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Before setting out for an adventure, we talk about Australia in general.  I have that in My Adventure Book which includes important facts and information about Australia, the flag, the state map and biomes map.

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Okay, I so made him prepare his luggage / backpack for this trip :)  Made sure that he has his book in his back including his passport.  Promise to next time, take a photo of him with his "paraphernalia" :)

Set-up:  On the first day of his adventure, upon his arrival in Australia (reference to his My Adventure Book) first thing is to travel across the country to see the famous landmarks.  So I place the cards (see Landmarks of Australia/Oceania) around the house for him to "pretend" that he's visiting the different places.  The exact location of these landmarks are included in My Adventure Book.

Landmarks of Australia Preiew

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As he discover the cards of the landmarks around the house we discuss what is so special about the place and the activities that we can do there (like in Great Barrier Reef we pretend to go scuba diving).  I made sure that before we embark to another landmark, we review it's location on the map so that he'll be aware of how far these landmarks are from each other.

We got so tired after this activity so I told him that it's time to "fill up some forms" regarding his trip and he'll do the rest of the activities the next day.  In reality, I wanted him to work on the activity sheets LOL.

Example of the sheets that's included in the book are:

Landmark locations.  Mavi here is identifying the locations of the landmark.  I only have 5 landmarks in the activity sheet as I don't want to overwhelm him.  If you want more, you can use the Landmarks of Australia/Oceania Nomenclature Cards for further study of the other places.

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Favorite Place.  Out of the 5 landmarks, he has to pick his favorite place, draw them and explain why he likes it.

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The flag. And of course, there's the flag. We discuss the meaning of the country's flag and its colors.    You can also check my Australia/Oceania Pin Map and Nomenclature Cards for further study of the other flag in the Australia/Oceania continent (not just Australia).

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 Aussie Flag Preview

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And lastly, while we rest, we watched a couple of Youtube videos about Australia and the places we've learned so far.  Here are the links:

Sydney Opera House

 

Uluru/Ayers Rock (in the Outback)

 

Great Barrier Reef

 

 

The Pinnacles

Kangaroo Island

 

I have to say that at the end of the day, my son has absorbed all the things that he has learned on this 'pretend' adventure.  He can name 5 landmarks, describe what is Australia, its flag and the colors and the biomes (though we still have to dig deeper on this).  Learning about a country is so much fun if you play pretend of really going on an adventure on that place :)

Next we'll do animals, biomes, food and famous people and crafts/paintings of the Aborigines.  And please do come again tomorrow or follow me on Facebook for the link of My Adventure Book (Australia and New Zealand)... just one of the many series I'm going to publish before the year ends :)

Thank you!

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