Asia...

We just got back from our trip back home (Philippines) and I think it’s best time to talk about ASIA.  BUT ASIA is just huge!  It’s something that I cannot just talk about in one week.  There’s just MORE to tell about it. So next week, we’ll do the basic, I’ll give him introductory topics about ASIA:

• Famous landmarks and historical sites
• The languages spoken in different countries.
• Animals that lives in Asia
• Maps and flags

Then we’ll go in depth with Philippines, China and India. 

• History of each countries (simplified for a 4 yrs old)
• The languages they use
• Currencies
• Lifestyle of the people, Culture
• Maps and Flags
• Famous landmarks and the story behind it
• Foods
• Stories originated from each countries.  As of now, I only got books from the Philippines, I check the local library if I could find some for China and India.

Lakes and Islands

We started looking into landforms.  And this work is very much inspired my The Adventures of Bear.  The landforms cards were downloaded from Montessori Materials and they are for free! 

Now to make my landforms, I used plasticine... filled it with water and added the sailboat as seen on the post of Julie.  My son totally loved it! We’ll delve into these land and water forms once he gets a hang of it.  For now he’s busy playing with the water and the boats :)

  

Happy learning and playing!

 

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Study of the Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctic Unit)

We studied Arctic and Antarctica a few days before we left, and identified the difference between these polar lands.

These are the books we used:

• Polar Lands
• Polar Lands (100 Things You Should Know About...)
• The Polar Region's Most Amazing Animals

3 Weeks Vacation

Hello everyone! You might be wondering why I wasn't active in the past few weeks.  We're on vacation. I have to admit this is unplanned though, so my plans for September-October activities are on-hold.  I didn't bring my laptop with me so even if I have something to share on the activities we did early September, I cannot post it because the pictures are in my hard-drive.

We still have a few more days left, and am preparing again for another 22hour flight back.  My son is born a traveller, he's been crossing continents/countries for the past 4 years and never gave me a headache. Everyone calls him a jet-setter boy!

In a few weeks time, we'll be back in our regular programming, but for now.... we're enjoying this!