Showing posts with label insect_lore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insect_lore. Show all posts
What are Insects?
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Here’s a simple way of telling whether an animal is an insect: has 6 legs (with or without wings). This is something new to Vito, the word “insect”. He usually calls them with their real names like flies, bees, dragonflies, etc. but is not familiar with their category. Now, this is the first time that I introduced this concept, so he struggled a little bit until we started counting the legs!

Montessori Inspired Life Cycle of Insects
Monday, May 29, 2017
Vito and I have been talking about insects in the past few days. I mentioned in my previous post, the current interest on insects was brought about by their sudden appearance. So far he has encountered quite a few already like garden ants, flies, wasps and bees, and bugs. It’s a shame we haven’t seen grasshoppers and dragonflies here, I used to catch and collect them as a child (back in Asia). Anyway, since our last activity on Farm Families, Vito still loves to learn about mommies, daddies, and babies, thus I introduced the life cycle of insects early on in our activities. Unlike my past activities with Mavi, this one is very simple and straight forward.
FREE Life Cycle Matching Cards
Saturday, November 28, 2015

I have a bunch of life cycle figures which my Aunt brought from the US a few months ago. I did not really intend to introduce them yet to Vito as he is too young. But I observed that he’s into matching activities these days, so I managed to create matching cards for all of my life cycles. Wow, he definitely surprised me! He worked on all of these in one day and always picked these for his activity everyday!
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