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Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
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Animals and their Covers

Monday, August 1, 2016

My boys love animal covers!  We used this whenever we want to play around with or beautiful animals from Schleich or whenever Mavi wants to replicate them through drawing.

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at 12:37:00 AM Labels: 2 years, 32 months, animals, homeschooling, Montessori-inspired, Safari Toobs, safari_toobs, schleich, toddler, tot, totschool, Vito, zoology
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Farm Animals Sort & Play

Monday, May 16, 2016

When I was planning for a Farm Unit, I wanted it to be simple because  it’ll be the week of our arrival from our trip. This means, we are all tired (especially me!), and I need time to do all the unpacking.  So my aim is still to provide activities to Vito with less preparation. 

Now, I made these playdough last month and yes, they’re still good!  The main objective of this play is to sort out the animal figures from Safari Toob and Shleich according to their “habitat”.

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at 9:31:00 PM Labels: 2 years, 29 months, animals, farm unit, homeschooling, materials, Montessori-inspired, toddler, tot, totschool, Vito
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Animal Tracks Learning Material

Friday, October 30, 2015

FREEAnimalTracks

Download a FREE copy of our Animal Tracks. On how we used this, click here or the image below.  Enjoy!

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Investigating Animal Tracks and {Learn & Play Link Up}

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

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Animal tracks

We are continuing on our study of animal identification and learning more about their characteristics.  After watching Deadly 60 series of Steve Backshall, we discovered that you can also identify animals by the tracks they make!   So we used our favourite Schleich animal figures to test this.  We randomly dipped the animals in the black paint and freely made tracks. Vito’s helping as well!

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The tracks and trails an animal leaves can tell us the type of animals it is and whether it was walking or running, and you can also tell if it was by itself or with a group of other animals.

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Footprints of animals are very tricky to identify unlike that of humans! But by thorough investigation, you can tell if the animal is hoofed or with paws or toes.  To learn about the footprints of these animals, one must have a proper observation for these unique characteristics.

Animal tracks to note:

  • Did the animals walk on 2 or 4 feet?
  • Does the animal left a large or small track?
  • Was it walking or running?
  • Was it just one animal or followed by another?

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Using our printable and the actual tracks, Mavi grouped the animals according to the characteristics of their footprints:

  • Raccoon and bear have 4 toes front and 5 toes rear, they have claws.
  • Dog, fox and wolf have 4 toes front, 5 toes rear and produces an egg shaped track
  • Lion, lynx produces a round track with claws, 4 toes front and 5 toes rear
  • Deer, elk have heart shaped tracks and has 4 toes front and 5 toes rear

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And the highlight of this lesson is for them to see how their footprints look like!

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Materials Used: 

Thank you for taking time to read this post!  You might as well visit our Zoo Animal Tracks post for another activity that involves playdough. It’s a not as messy as black paint Open-mouthed smile

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H is for Hibernate from In Our Pond
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at 9:38:00 PM Labels: animals, elementary, science, zoology
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Classifying Vertebrate Animals

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

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I love unplanned activities.  Mavi would always resort to this activity whenever he’s bored on Fridays (swimming lessons were moved to Saturdays).  I like that he can do this activity independently, while learning the important characters of animals that belong in each group.

Classifying Vertebrate Animals

I believe that it is important for the child to have a clear and defined idea of the classes in the animal kingdom and its division.  What’s important to me is to have him gain the knowledge through this activity rather than reading and memorizing the difference in the books.

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Letter Z: Zoo Animal Activities

Saturday, October 3, 2015

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Vito is 22 months old.

Vito is currently obsessing over his Schleich zoo animals.  I just started collecting these animal figures early this year as I can see that both of my boys can benefit from it.  I decided to put together zoo-themed activities for the little Vito, an opportunity to learn and explore the letter ‘z’.

Dear Zoo Story Basket

Vito loves this Dear Zoo book!  We read it over and over again each day, and he specifically loves opening and closing the flaps to discover the animal hidden in it.

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Zoo Animal Tracks

My boys can’t get enough of playdough, and we used our Schleich animals to create beautiful tracks!  It was a total hit!

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Animal Skin Covers

And who wouldn’t love skin patterns! It amazes me how Vito can match the animals with its cover!  I only prepared 6 of his favourite animals and he is working on them everyday.  As we progress, I’ll add up some more to make it challenging for him.DSC_0946

Letter Z Craft

Our letter of the week (craft) is usually hanged in the wall for a week’s view (for recognition) LOL.

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Animals Clean Up

Original plan was to wash and brush these animals.  But it was cold and we couldn’t do it indoors so I ended up giving him the wipes instead.  He enjoyed this!

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Zoo Animals Matching Cards

Something that he do everyday as well, matching the figures with the cards! This activity is for object recognition, discrimination and exactness. You can download your FREE copy from here.

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Letter Z Object Basket

Our object basket is typically for letter recognition and phonics sounds.DSC_0069

And that’s all about our fun adventure of learning the letter z sound and zoo animals.  Stay tuned for our next letter sound of the week… something to do with autumn!  And yes, please don’t forget to pin this for later!

Z is for Zoo

Other letter sound we’ve done:

  • Letter a for apple
  • Letter b for ball
  • Letter c for car
  • Letter d for dinosaur
  • Letter e for egg
  • Letter s for star
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    FREE Zoo Animals Matching Cards

    Tuesday, September 29, 2015

    Vito is 22 months

    Vito is in to matching these days! Whenever he sees an object that has a match on books, he would immediately get it and put it together.  We started matching activities earlier with our Farm Animal Activities, and since we moved to zoo animals, I also created a set of matching cards for our figures (all Schleich images).  So far we’re only using the tiger, jaguar, alligator, hippopotamus, elephant and lion figures.

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    The basket is setup in our shelf, and he loves to work on it in the morning. He would help himself by setting up the rug and work on his matching activity.

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    If you’d like to own a copy, click on any of the images or here. Enjoy!

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    Zoo Animal Tracks

    Saturday, September 12, 2015

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    If you are looking for a simple activity that will keep your kids hooked for a longer period of time, this is one I highly recommend.  Recently I bought a few Schleich animals from a local store because it was on sale.  Since Vito looooves animals, I whipped this activity in an instance, just in time to make use of our white PlayDoh.

    Materials needed:  different animal figures with detailed tracks (I highly recommend Schleich) and playdough (PlayDoh).

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    One by one, create tracks of your animals in the dough.  Vito was fascinated of the tracks!  He wanted to do it by himself Open-mouthed smile

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    Here’s a closer look of the tracks. How cool is it that they’re all so detailed! 

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    Can you identify which animals they belong to?

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    Yay! We didn’t have enough dough though.  But Vito played with this for a long time! We’ll definitely do this more often.

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    The Annelids: Earthworms and {Learn & Play Link Up}

    Wednesday, July 22, 2015

    We’ve been seeing worms a lot lately in the yard. And I have to be honest here, I never really liked them!  In fact, I am terrified of worms! But the boys seem to be pretty amused with these creatures.  So while we are seeing them around in the garden, I took out our earthworm life cycle figures for us to explore (which my Aunt brought when they came here to visit).

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    Before heading to the life cycle of worms, Mavi and I read about earthworms on the net. Here are some facts that we found fascinating about worms!
  • There 6,000 species of worms worldwide!
  • They breathe through skin as they have no lungs.
  • They are both male and female, which means they produce sperm and eggs.  This is known as hermaphrodites.
  • They need water to survive. When the worm’s skin dried out, they will die.
  • Earthworms are mostly 90% made up of water. Wow! Now, I made this materials, similar to my Animal Life Cycle learning resources.  I love this approach as Mavi can retain so much information on presenting the life cycle this way.

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    You can download a copy of the Worm Life Cycle here.

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    And because I can’t take earthworms indoors nor conduct a hands-on learning on earthworms anatomy, we used our worm figure instead to examine the parts of an earthworm.    Click here for a copy of the Worm Nomenclature Cards.
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    And because I wanted to integrate Vito into our activities, we made some wormy meal (unhealthy!).  I made Vito hammer a few Oreo cookies… and use it as soil.
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    Then we added some wormy jellies for everyone to feast on!
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    For this week, I’d like to feature amazing printables that I’d like to try for my kids!  These are created by generous mothers who wanted to share with us what they are currently using in their own home school.  Thank you so much for these Moms!
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    Galapagos Animals 3 Part Cards  by In Our Pond
    France 3 Part Cards by Welcome to Mommyhood
    Ocean Animals Clip Card by A Little Pinch of Perfect
    Planets Learning Pack by 3 Dinosaurs
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  • Sensory Play
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  • Fine and Gross Motor Activities
  • Kids in the Kitchen
  • Healthy Recipes for Kids
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Natural Living
  • Free Educational Printables
  • Family-Oriented Activities
  • Healthy Living 

  • Your post will be featured on each of our blogs where we will pick our favourite posts every other week. That means there is more of a chance that you will be featured!

    Everyone, please meet our link party hosts:

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    Marie from Child Led Life~FB~Pinterest~Instagram~Twitter
    Jae from Pinay Homeschooler~FB~Pinterest~Instagram~Twitter
    Heather from Golden Reflections Blog~FB~Pinterest~Instagram~Twitter
    Renae from Every Star is Different~FB~Pinterest

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