Feel free to download the file, it includes control charts and sorting cards.
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We also worked on animal skin prints. It was fortunate that I couldn’t find printable skin prints that we could work on, and it resulted to an even more exciting activity: we made the skin prints all by ourselves!
I gathered a few African animal figures with interesting skins and we draw the skin print of each. As seen here, we’re doing the Hyena’s spotty skin.
And the zebra as well.
Then we check out the books I borrowed from our library. We discuss the culture, traditions and lifestyle of African people using the images in the book. Such as seen below, most women are wearing bead necklaces.
He was amazed of this wooden scooter!
We also worked on African animals using our animal figures and the cards which I got from Montessori Print Shop.
Books I got from the library. We were able to learn how to count in Swahili using one of the books below.
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Last week Mavi learned about animal classes. He’s been playing with his animal figures for weeks and I thought that maybe I could have a little activity that would make use of these animals and learn at the same time. And it hit me that we haven’t talked about animal classes yet. All we ever do is sort animals whether they live on land or water, or whether they’re farm or zoo animals. So the thought of having a new activity got me really excited.
So per usual, I went to the library to get some books relating to animal classifications.
I started telling a story about the animal world wherein they are grouped according to their characteristics. I used the images here to describe each of the class and then we sorted each of the figures whether they are mammals, reptiles, fish, birds or amphibians.
MAMMALS. (Fur, mommies nurse their young with their milk, four legged and warm blooded)
REPTILES. (Scaly and dry skin, 4 legs or no legs at all, usually lay eggs, cold-blooded)
BIRDS. (Feather, 2 legs, lays eggs, warm-blooded)
FISH. (Scales and fins, lay many eggs, live in the water, cold-blooded)
AMPHIBIANS. (Moist smooth skin, live in land and water, lay eggs,webbed feet)
My son had a wonderful time with this activity. For two days, this is just what we did, he loves sorting his animals. Then one day, while he was doing free play in his room, I peeked and saw him sorting his animals all by himself :)
It felt good to see your son loving the things that you teach him. So note to self, that the next time we’ll visit the zoo, we’ll play a game of telling what the animal class a certain animal belongs :)
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