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History: Earliest People

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Here are the activities for the first chapter of the Story of the World Vol 1 Earliest People.  (Based on the Activity Book Vol 1) [Affiliate link]

Map and Activity Sheets 

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I took a photo of Mavi’s interpretation of the nomads living inside a tent and with a campfire.

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Cave Painting

The book also suggests that you try cave painting (pretend) as a means of communication or recording of events. 

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LEGO Project

As much as possible to we love to incorporate LEGO in our work. So here we made Jericho, the first city… just as the book described it.

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Jericho, the First City in LEGO Bricks

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

After reading the first chapter of The Story of the World Vol 1, Mavi created this. This is how he interprets Jericho, the first city built by the earliest people (nomads) who became farmers in the Fertile Crescent. 

“Soon, farmers discovered that it was best to build houses close together so they could help each other to water and tend their fields. These were the first villages.”

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“Because they were afraid that they may be attacked and robbed by bandits, they built stone walls around their villages. These were the first cities.”

I will post the rest of the activities we did in line with the SOTW Earliest People.

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REVIEW: Sink and Float Experiment using LEGO

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

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It is a known fact that my son LOVES LEGO.  He loves to think that he can make anything with LEGO.  And one of the MAJOR discoveries that we have this year is that we can incorporate LEGO bricks in our homeschool activities.  Because I find it helpful to use LEGO bricks into our schooling, I decided to add a few more to his collection so we can create more stuff together. You can see some of our works in our Geography lessons and our ever famous Eiffel Tower.

I cannot tell you how happy am I when I was asked to review the visual tutorial of the sink and float experiment of LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Manchester. This idea never crossed my mind at all!  And what made it more exciting is that it involves water play (who doesn’t like water play?)!

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The visual tutorial is similar to the instruction booklet that you get whenever you purchase a LEGO set.  The directions are simple and since Mavi can read, he did the experiment on his own (I end up being the audience LOL).

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So he made his raft out of his brown bricks with details of green.  He made it float and later on added objects in the raft and moved them around to test whether the locations would make the raft sink or float.  The tricky part is when he needs to balance the items in the raft so it won’t sink! It took him gazillion of tries to finally succeed :)

DSC_0034Mavi had so much fun doing this experiment and would love to do this again and again. We would laugh so hard every time we fail!  And even I as an adult enjoyed the activity.We are so glad we did this experiment.  It is also a good way to bond with little ones :)  After which, Mavi was like “Mom, can we do more experiments?”, “Mom, can you think of more activities with LEGO?”.

I will definitely look for more science experiments using LEGO bricks. And LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Manchester is one place where I can look for those amazing ideas.  And hopefully in the near future… we’ll be able to visit the place and try out their exciting learning activities!

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Life Cycle: Organisms

Saturday, September 27, 2014

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We started our Organisms Unit early this week and it was a joy Mavi had a great time learning about the living organisms and the different forms of life. I like that we will only have a few activities here. Focus on the quality, making sure that the child truly understands the concept behind the activity.

The key concept of this unit is for the child to learn that there are other organisms besides human and animals. That these organisms thrive and reproduce for survival. The following are the activities that we performed for the unit:

LIVING AND NON-LIVING

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Objectives: To be able to sort the living and the non-living objects.

Task:

  1. Describe the characteristics that makes an object a living organism.
  2. Distinguish objects that are non-living but have been created from living objects (wooden cabinet).
  3. What are the three important requirements of a living organism to thrive or grow?

Vocabulary: animal, living, non-living, organism

 

ANIMAL FAMILIES

Objective: Classification and sorting of objects, in order to group them into larger groups (Families)

Task:

  1. Discuss the families of the animals, what do you call the father, the mother and the baby and their group.
  2. Comparing the animal tracks. Those with round shape, hoofs or prints with toes.
  3. Classifying animals whether they live in land, water or sky.

Vocabulary: family, group, classification

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ANIMAL HABITATS

Objective: Comparing where animals live.

Mid this year, we have conducted a study of the different habitats of animals around the world.  You can view our lesson here and here.

Next week, my son and I will work on the human body.  Still part of the Life Cycle theme… that evolves around organisms. 

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The Geological Times

Monday, September 15, 2014

By now, you all know that my son is into history… the beginning of times.  I’m thinking of feeding this current interest and I find myself introducing topics which are unplanned.

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Dinosaur and the Land Before Time

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Dinosaur Unit Study

My son is obsessed with dinosaurs. Majority of the books he borrowed from the library is about dinosaurs.  His birthday cake was decorated with dinosaurs. So when he begged that we’ll play with dinosaurs, I couldn’t resist.  He reads his dinosaur books every night and is eager to learn all about the beginning of times.  So considering all these factors, I put up an afterschool learning activity about the geological times and the era of dinosaurs.

Here are the activities we worked on this unit study.

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FREE Feathered Dinosaur Cards

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Feathered Dinosaurs

Hello everyone! I made these cards ages ago and we use it to play matching game with our Safari Feathered Dinosaur Toob.  I’ll be posting our Dino Study this week for more dino-related activities that you can do with your little people.  Hope you like my cards.  Enjoy!

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Learning About Southeast Asia

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Learning About Southeast Asia
Here’s a summary of activities for learning about Southeast Asia.

Southeast Asia Map and Flags

This activity is all about familiarization of the Southeast Asia Map and identification of countries which belong to this region.

Learning materials used in this activity:
  • Asia in a Nutshell
  • Flags of Asia Pack (Nomenclature and Pin Flags)
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Religious Crafts and Activities for Kids

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Sharing with you some religious crafts we did to go along with our study of Religions in Asia. 

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Hinduism

Hindus offer garlands to God and to their guests as a sign of welcome.  Our garland was made of tissue paper and I used a thread to tie them up all together to form a garland.

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Mavi decorated his hand.  This is a Hindu tradition wherein a Hindu bride would decorate its hand with a red dye called mehndi on her wedding day.

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Christianity

One of the poignant moment in Christianity is the death of Jesus Christ.  So here, we made Mount Cavalry using paper plates and paint and added three crosses.  This is where Jesus died with two other outlaws.

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Islam

We made prayer rug used by the Muslims when they worship Allah.  Instead of making a stunning and complicated design which Muslim craftspeople are known of, we just weaved our rug using cardstock.

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Seen below, Mavi demonstrates how it is used.

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Using Legos, we made a model of a Muslim mosque.  We used a styro paper cup and top it with a crescent symbol for the dome.  to signify an Islam mosque. Mavi loved this one the most!

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Hope you enjoy this post.  More of our Asian Unit Study coming your way.  Till next time!

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Animal Exploration: A Study Guide

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

One of my objective this year is for Mavi to have a bigger understanding of the animal kingdom.  During his preschool and totschool days, I introduced animals via themed activities which he truly enjoyed.  But there was a point that he would asks more complicated questions and I just knew that I have to put “depth” into our lessons.

So let me share with you our outline of study which I considered as a guideline whenever we have a study about animals.  Now, this outline is for elementary level and I would not recommend this to preschoolers.  Familiarization is the first key for preschoolers to understand about the animals and the themed activities are best for this.

ANIMAL KINGDOM (Blog Post, Animal Kingdom Chart and Cards)

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  • VERTEBRATE SORTING (Blog Post, Vertebrate Sorting Cards)

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    • Study of Birds (Bird Unit I, Bird Unit II, Bird Activities, Bird Printable Pack)

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    • Study of Fish
    • Study of Reptiles
    • Study of Amphibians/Frogs
    • Study of Mammals
    • Animal Lifecycles (Blog Post, FREE Animal Lifecycle Cards )

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  • MOLLUSCS:  The Study of Snails  (Part One, Part Two, Snail Nomenclature Card and Definition Booklet)

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  • ARTHROPODS (FREE Arthropod Chart)
    • ARTHROPODS: The Study of Insects (Part One, Part Two)

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      • Butterfly Nomenclature Cards  and Definition Booklet (FREE)
      • Insect Nomenclature Cards  and Definition Booklet
      • Grasshopper Nomenclature Cards  and Definition Booklet
      • Ant Nomenclature Cards  and Definition Booklet
      • Caterpillar Nomenclature Cards  and Definition Booklet
    • ARTHROPODS: The Study of Crustaceans
      • Crab Nomenclature Cards  and Definition Booklet
    • ARTHROPODS: The Study of Arachnids
      • Spider Nomenclature Cards  and Definition Booklet
    • ARTHROPODS: The Study of Chilopods
      • Centipede Nomenclature Cards  and Definition Booklet

We also looked into the habitats of these animals:

ANIMALS AND THEIR HABITATS (Part One, Part Two, Animal Habitat Learning Materials )

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For animals in freshwater and marine animals:

ANIMALS IN MARINE ECOSYSTEM (Blog Post, FREE Animals in Marine Ecosystem Cards )

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ANIMALS IN FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM (Materials Used, Blog Post)

There are fields that we haven’t touched yet, and I am hoping that we could explore them before the year ends.

Hope that you find this post helpful.

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The World of Arthropods for Kids (Part Two)

Friday, June 13, 2014

This is the second part of our Arthropod Study.  I suggest you read the first part of this post to know more about our learning materials and how I started introducing this entire subject to my son.
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Here are the activities we've done on the last part of our Insect Study.
Activity 1:  Moulding insects using plasticine and playdough.
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Activity 2: Matching the insect figures to the insect picture cards we have. Also, we used our fact cards to learn about each insect group and their characteristics.
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Activity 3: Body parts.  Here Mavi worked on a worksheet identifying the major body parts of an insect.
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Activity 4: Sorting of insect and non-insect animal figures.  Oh he loved this!! See how he identifies the figure? He sorted them by counting their legs!
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Activity 5:  This is just out of the blue activity.  I was cleaning up our kitchen and saw Mavi's old learning materials in a box.  So I took them out and let him play with these minibeasts again.  We had this activity before when he was 3 years old, picking up the insects using the kiddie chopsticks.  The toy insects were from a local store here.
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And that ends our Arthropods-Insect Study :)  Next is Crustaceans and Centipedes, but I'm reserving this topic in July or August. 

And there you go peeps! If you have any questions just leave me a comment and I will get back to you as soon as I can.  You are free to share this post and copy the activities (just link back to me if you find my activities interesting).

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Animal Life Cycles (FREE Learning Material)

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

We are still continuing our vertebrate study and at this point we are exploring the life cycle of each group.  The aim of this study is to compare the life cycle of each group, to differentiate their development and identify their similarities as well.

Prior to this, I introduced the Animal Kingdom and the Vertebrate group.

To start off, we have The Life Cycle of a Frog for amphibians. Printable materials used here are my Animal Kingdom file, Vertebrate Sorting Cards and the Animal Life Cycles FREE printable.  The link to the file is at the end of this post.

Animal Life Cycles (FREE Learning Material)

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Introducing Vertebrate Animals to Kids

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Mavi was very excited when I told him that we'll be sorting out animals according to their classification.  This was his long awaited activity and he was so happy that we get to finally do it (my cards were completed).

So after our talk about the Animal Kingdom and how the classification of the Vertebrate animals differ, I gave him our Vertebrate Sorting Cards to classify each of the animals in the cards based on their group.  First, we read each definition card of each group to know more about the features of their members. Then he sorted his Safari TOOB Animals and Schleich Animals according to their groups.

Introducing Vertebrate Animals to Kids

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Exploring the Animal Kingdom for Kids

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Hello everyone! Mavi is still on a school break this week so we'll be busy doing lots of "home" school activities.  Thank goodness the weather is getting warmer, Mavi gets to play in the yard, digging dirt and "fossils" LOL.

Speaking of which, he's currently obsessed with dinosaurs and with animals in general.  So while he's at it, I took the chance of introducing him to the Animal Kingdom.  I released this file last week so if you want to check it out, just click the image below for the link.
The Animal Kingdom Learning Material
To start with, here's my presentation of the chart.  In my printable file, there are 8 invertebrate animals and I used common animals so kids learning them can easily identify the specific group.  The presentation of the chart to Mavi went smoothly.  He was really surprised that there are animals that doesn't have a backbone. 
The Animal Kingdom Learning Material
As we went along with the presentation, I made him the definition or fact cards that goes along with each of the animal. I made sure that the information I wrote in those cards were interesting enough for a 5 year old :)  We will further discuss Mollusks and Arthropods in the next few weeks for an additional knowledge of their subclass (group types).
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He learned that some animals can be both a boy and a girl!  And look, we added some animal figures as well and that includes jelly worms!
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When we reached the Chordates (Vertebrates) he got really excited as this was the part that he's familiar with.
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He was so excited because he wanted to put his animal figures under each subclass of the Vertebrate animals LOL.
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And yes... that includes the dinosaurs!
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So classifying animals on what subclass (amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds and fish) they belong to is another activity that we delve into. And that would be on my next post... so stay tuned!

PS.  I was a little bit hesitant to introduce this subject to Mavi.  But I was surprised that he was attentive all throughout our lesson.  He even patiently read all the description cards for me.  I am happy that he was able to grasp the concept immediately, that not all animals are the same, that they are grouped so we can easily identify their features and understand their characteristics and uniqueness. 
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