We revisited the frogs theme before we went on a vacation because we’ve been spending too time looking at ponds and frogs around the park.
Here, we worked on the lifecycle of frogs using some colored papers.
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This was inspired by this post from How We Montessori.
The printed materials were downloaded from At Home with Montessori.
This was one activity my son totally loved! What’s not in the picture was when we ate the other half of each fruit LOL.
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My son is fond of collection pine cones. Because I got tired of seeing them around the house, here’s what we did with them...
Now we got lots of these colorful pine cones and I just have to look for some baskets in the thrift shop where I can pile them and display it in our kitchen window.
It’s so difficult to write a post these days. (been busy with personal work). Good thing I keep pictures so it’s for me to track back the activities we did on a specific day/week.
Here’s the conclusion of our Flower Unit which we started a few weeks ago.
We picked flowers and identify them. We later on used them as paint brushes. Read about it here.
Another thing we did was make flowers out of cupcake cases. We used do-a-dot markers to color each cases then let them dry.
While for our flowers to dry up, Mavi painted the egg carton so we can use them as plant box.
We use pipe cleaners as stems and inserted some beads on it to add a more decors to our flowers.
The end product. I realize that the cases were too big for our plant box, thus... it is no longer visible LOL. He placed this in his bedroom window and admired it for a few days.
He worked on flower nomenclature cards and puzzle as well.
Practical Life
Using clamp and chopstick trainer to transfer rose petals.
Outdoor
Now this is exactly the reason why I always procrastinate to write any updates... we spend my free time outdoors! It was just so timely that during the time we did our flower unit, we were blessed with a wonderful weather!
Linking to:Flowers are blooming everywhere! My loves smelling daffodils, picking up dandelions and admiring cherry blossoms. With his current interest, I pulled out a flower theme so I can make use of these interests.
Here’s a craft which was inspired by No Time For Flashcards. The number corresponds to the number of petals in the flower. Then he insisted on adding stems and leaves and grasses.
Then on sunny day, we explore the estate to pick up some flowers and identify some wildflowers as well.
Once at home, we identified each flowers and matched them to the ones in the books. (Books were borrowed from our library)
We also used some of the flowers as paint brushes for his artwork.
He managed to use the leaves as well :)
We such had a great time working with flowers! Reminds me of myself wayyy back a long time ago... enjoying picking up flowers during summer with my friends as well.
Happy Monday everyone!
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Here’s the Moon unit we did for the past few days to go along with our Goodnight Moon Before FIAR.
Read books which I borrowed a few books from the library aside from the ones we already have.
My son can now appreciate space facts, astronauts, rocket ships and planets. Unlike the first time we had the moon unit.
The space toob which was a gift for him was very useful during his play pretend of space and planets.
Now on serious stuff, I discussed the the position of the moon, earth and sun in space.
Then I talked about the moon revolving around the earth and that the earth revolves around the sun. I demonstrated this using our felt planets and he was fascinated. He tried doing it by himself.
Then we worked on the phases of the moon. I was very careful telling him that there’s only one moon but it looks different from time to time. Since this topic is a bit complicated for a 3 year old, I just compared to it making faces. Sometimes we look sad, happy or mad but we only have one face. And with this, he started making faces as well... just funny that he was able to get the point somehow.
Here he worked on the nomenclature cards of the phases of the moon.
And using felt moons, we talked about the moon getting bigger and getting smaller.
I made him worked through the phases by positioning the moon phases as to the ones on the book. From here, I asked him on what side does the moon gets bigger or smaller.
So everytime we’re outdoors, and he would see the moon, I love that he would describe it to me as “it’s a gibbous moon” or “it’s a crescent moon”... not just “ a moon”. As a mom, it really makes you happy that your child digest what you have taught them :)
Over the weekend, we made a hanging moon phases and placed it on our verandah. I cut out the shapes of the phases and my son covered it with kitchen foil.
Here they are... the phases of the moon all in silver!
Then I put it all together and hanged them for us to look at each night :) The camera though cannot do justice on how good it looked during the day, especially when the sun would shine on it... it sparkles!
And the silhouette looks lovely too!
I hope you enjoyed reading my post. These days, I really don’t have the luxury of time to make an update so I just try to post as much photos to describe what we did. Till next time!
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