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Sparkly Planets for your Solar System

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

We’ve done this before (in 2013) and we made another one again! Creating our planets for our solar system using aluminium foil. Have done this before?  I mentioned the source of this activity in my previous post, read it here.

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at 4:17:00 PM Labels: 3 years old, 3.5 to 4 years old, 8 years old, arts and crafts, astronomy, elementary, planets, pre-school, preschool, preschoolY1, space unit study, The Great Lessons
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Science Project: How to Make an Erupting Volcano Model

Monday, July 3, 2017

We made this volcano to go along with our First Great Lesson: The Volcano and this is our first paper mache project at home.  I tell you, I tried to avoid these kinds of activities and projects because they are messy, and requires a lot of work.  But since it’s summer, I decided to try it and much to my surprise I enjoyed making this model more than the boys did.  This project was inspired by a post I read from Red Ted Art.  So read along and learn how we made our model as simple as possible for less work.

How to Make an Erupting Volcano Model

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at 9:20:00 AM Labels: 3 years old, 3.5 to 4 years old, 8 years old, elementary, experiments, homeschooling, pre-school, preschool, preschoolY1, science, The Great Lessons, volcano
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Montessori Inspired Butterfly Coloring Matching Activity

Friday, May 26, 2017

Saw this idea from one of my favourite Instagram account Momducator.  It’s a brilliant idea of using Montessori color tablets (set 3) to match with the butterfly colors of Safari Toobs (Insects, Butterflies, Bulk Bag).  This is a great practise for visual perception, picking the right color combination to match with the butterflies.
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at 11:28:00 PM Labels: 3 to 3.5 years old, 3 years old, 8 years old, color, colors, elementary, homeschooling, Montessori materials, Montessori-inspired, pre-school, preschool, preschoolY1
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Ancient Egypt Learning Materials for Kids

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

This holy week, Mavi revisited ancient Egypt after rereading the Ten Commandments story.  We dug up our Egypt Picture Book materials so he could work on some readings and do some activities to follow them.  In this post, I will share the contents of our Egypt Picture Book learning pack, which you might want to try.  It contains reading materials, activity pages, picture cards and outline cards for colouring.

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at 11:51:00 AM Labels: 3 to 3.5 years old, 3 years old, 8 years old, Ancient Egypt, elementary, history, homeschooling, Mavi, Montessori-inspired, pre-school, preschool, preschoolY1, Vito
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Flags of the World

Monday, March 13, 2017

Earlier this year I bought Mavi this Montessori Map and Flags because they’ve been having a lot of geography lessons in school and he wanted to master his knowledge of flags.  As it turned out, this has been one of the most used Montessori material at home as of the moment.  There are 32 country flags with a stand.  Mavi can mostly identify those of European and American countries, but he needs to review his African and middle eastern countries.

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at 2:04:00 PM Labels: 40 months, 8 years old, elementary, flags, geography, maps, materials, Montessori-inspired, pre-school, preschool, preschoolY1, printables, shop
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Montessori Inspired Parts of a Flower Activities

Thursday, February 23, 2017

For Mavi's midterm break, I am planning activities that both my 3-year-old and 8-year-old boys can participate in. One of the activities is to learn about flowers and their composition. Despite having done this activity before at the ages of 4 and 6, Mavi is still excited to do it again with his younger brother. This is a new challenge for me as I need to ensure that the activity is engaging for my younger son, while also conveying information to my older son. In the post, you can find out how I made the boys work together in the activities that I prepared for them.

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at 11:41:00 PM Labels: 3 to 3.5 years old, 3 years old, 39 months, 8 years old, biology, elementary, flowers, homeschooling, Mavi, science, Vito
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We Love MiniLUK

Friday, February 17, 2017

I remember playing this when I was 10 years old at my friend’s house.  It was addictive! The more I finished an exercise, the more I wanted to go on and on with the booklets.

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at 8:48:00 PM Labels: 3 years old, 8 years old, afterschool, elementary, miniluk, pre-school, preschool, preschoolY1, toy and resource suggestions, toys
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Book Review: Danny Dingle’s Fantastic Finds

Saturday, January 28, 2017

I was quite surprised when Mavi finished this book in one day!  It arrived on the mail last week, and when I opened it in front of him, he excitedly asked if he could bring it to school so he can read it during the break. 

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at 7:45:00 PM Labels: 8 years old, book collection, books, elementary, Mavi, reading, review
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A Penguin Project for Mom and Kids

Friday, January 13, 2017

Oh I am so happy how these turned out!! The boys and I enjoyed making these penguins using simple art materials.  It took us around an hour to finish everything (with a stubborn preschooler) and we were totally blown by the result!  This art project was from Deep Space Sparkle, one of my favourite artsy website and my go to for painting projects. 

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at 9:38:00 PM Labels: 3 years old, 8 years old, art projects, DSS, elementary, homeschooling, Mavi, painting, penguins, pre-school, preschool, preschoolY1, Vito, winter activities
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Telling Time Activities

Monday, December 19, 2016

Mavi wanted to practice more of reading the time, especially when it comes to reading and writing “quarter to” and “half past”.  He seems to be confused with the positioning of the small hand.  So with this, I made a few activities for him to work afterschool.  I am sharing these activities as well as the printables were are using (yes it’s free!).

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at 12:29:00 AM Labels: clock, elementary, free, grade schooler, materials, math, Mavi, printables, time
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Advent Books for Christmas Countdown

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Now that the boys are older, I’m starting a new Christmas tradition (other than having  a Christmas tree) that will have a meaningful effect in our little family.  Aside from the festivity and receiving presents, I want the boys to feel the love of the family, drawing us closer to each other, to other people and to God.  I want them to remember that Christmas is all about giving, not receiving things for themselves.

We’ll open and read one advent book each day (but for sure we’ll be reading them all throughout the month!).  It’s similar to the Advent calendar but instead of having toys, we’ll read a really good book about Christmas.  I wrapped the books already, and randomly select a few to display under the tree for Vito open.  (Mavi said Vito can open all of these everyday)

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at 10:36:00 PM Labels: book collection, books, Christmas, elementary, pre-school, preschool, preschoolY1
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Montessori Botany Learning Materials

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Last month, both of my sons fell ill and were bedridden for almost a week. During that time, I had plenty of free time during the day, but was busy taking care of Vito at night. To make the most of my available free time, I decided to enhance the Montessori botany cards and booklets that Vito will be utilizing this spring. I personally handcrafted some of these materials, and I'm proud of the results. If you're interested, feel free to come take a look!

Montessori Inspired Parts of a Flower Nomenclature Cards and Booklet
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at 11:14:00 PM Labels: 3 years old, 8 years old, botany, elementary, homeschooling, materials, Montessori, Montessori-inspired, pre-school, preschool, preschoolY1, printables, shop
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Introducing the North American History

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Based on my experience, the best way to teach kids about history is through famous landmarks.  I remember growing up with my father’s stories of Greece, Spain, Egypt and South America.  He has photos taken at the Great Pyramids of Giza, Sphinx, in Acropolis, Christ the Redeemer in Rio and more.  He’s telling me a bit about history through the landmarks in his photos, which fascinated me.  Since then, I’ve been very interested in travelling and learning about world history. I wanted to inspire Mavi in the same way.  I always start my history lessons with the famous landmarks using our travel photos and the Safari Toobs (Around the World, World Landmarks).  Recently, I purchased the Safari Supertoob USA (on sale) because Mavi wanted to know more about the US (inspired by our trip there last May).

So in this post, I’m sharing how we worked on understanding the history of North America through famous landmarks, figures and playsets that depict the life of the early people of North America.
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at 8:15:00 PM Labels: 8 years old, cultural, elementary, grade schooler, history, Montessori-inspired, North America
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Teaching the Phases of the Moon to Gradeschoolers

Friday, November 4, 2016

Probably by now, you must have read my post on the Phases of the Moon for preschoolers.  If not, I highly recommend that you do for it will give you ideas on how to introduce the moon’s phases to kids from ages 2.5 years and older.

We’ve been discussing this topic almost every year, and for this year, I wanted to give Mavi something different. So here are the materials I prepared for him:  wall chart of the moon’s phases, a booklet for definition and nomenclature cards. 
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at 12:54:00 AM Labels: 8 years old, elementary, materials, Montessori-inspired, moon
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Our Leaf Shapes Study

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

It’s Mavi’s midterm break this week, and I decided to have activities that both boys can do together.  First in mind is a leaf study since we are surrounded by beautiful and colorful leaves.  They are just too gorgeous when they change colors, and I don’t want to miss that opportunity!  We also used our Montessori Inspired Leaf Shapes printable for this activity, which you can buy from my shop.

Montessori Inspired Leaf Shapes printable

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at 11:38:00 PM Labels: 2 years, 35 months, 8 years old, botany, elementary, homeschooling, leaves and trees, materials, Montessori-inspired, pre-school, preschool, preschoolY1, shop
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Introducing Simple Machines to Kids (with Free Printable)

Monday, July 18, 2016

This summer, Mavi requested that we do some science lessons that we haven’t touched before (math’s a different story though).  Thus previously, we had types of fossils and a review of clouds.  Last week, he was watching the story of the caveman on how they were able to build tools that helped them build houses, kill animals for food and clothing and for protection.  As you can see, in his spare time, he loves to spend time in the yard and looks for ways to create an axe using a stick and a stone.  With this interest, I introduced him to simple machines.
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at 11:13:00 PM Labels: 7 years old, applied science, elementary, homeschooling, Montessori-inspired, science, simple machines, STEM
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Montessori-Inspired Activity: The Life of a Honey Bee

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Vito is 32 months old.

The appearance of the honey bees in our front and backyard has led us to look into the lives of these beautiful creatures who are the main source of honey.  Vito is terrified of them but not Mavi.  We were out the other day catching a few of them, observing how they produce the buzzing sound and freed them up again.

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at 5:33:00 PM Labels: 2 years, 32 months, 7 years old, elementary, homeschooling, insect, insect unit study, Montessori-inspired, Safari Toobs, safari_toobs, tot, totschool
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Kingdoms of Life: Animal Kingdom

Sunday, July 10, 2016

Mavi borrowed this book from the library so we can revisit the Animal Kingdom and he wanted to explore more of the other kingdoms of life.  We’ve done a couple of times before (here and here) and he loves revisiting this over and over.

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at 12:04:00 PM Labels: 7 years old, book collection, book extension, books, elementary, homeschooling, Montessori-inspired, science
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Hands-On Learning: Land and Water Forms

Monday, June 27, 2016

We started our Bodies of Water Unit last week and Mavi wants to do some more activities again and look what he made for his little brother!

Hands-On Learning: Land and Water Forms
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at 7:24:00 PM Labels: 7 years old, elementary, geography, homeschooling, Montessori-inspired, science
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Investigating the Past Life with Safari Toob Fossils

Friday, June 17, 2016

We love our Safari Toob!  I think every ‘Mom’schooler should have at least a set or two of these toobs.  They are fabulous learning materials and my kids love them!

Anyway, Mavi is officially joining Vito’s weekly themed activities as he’s almost done with school. He misses “Mom” school and urged me to let him join with the activities.  So while Vito is all about play and learn, I’m giving Mavi some serious investigative work like research, more readings, and selective hands-on activities.

Investigating the Past Life with Safari Toob Fossils
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at 10:55:00 PM Labels: 7 years old, elementary, fossils, Mavi, research, science, STEM
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