Continent Study: Flags by Continent

My Flag Packs  (by continent) are now available on the links provided with no sign-in needed. Each file contains the following:

Map Pin Flags

3 Part Cards (Control Card, Picture Card and Label)

Mini Flag Cards

Matching Cards for Country and City Capital

If you are interested they are available on the links provided.

Flags of Africa 

Flags of Asia

Flags of Australia / Oceania

Flags of Europe

Flags of North America

Flags of South America

Enjoy!

Farm Families (FREE Sorting Cards!)

(Click the image for the link)

Last week we studied farm animal families and my son had a wonderful time learning the names of each family member.  And later on I tested his knowledge by sorting out the cards whether they are mommies, daddies or babies. 

Feel free to download the file, it includes control charts and sorting cards.

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Math for Toddlers and Preschoolers

I’d like to share with you some of the “math” activities we used to do when Mavi was around 1 and 2 yrs old.  These are very simple activities that you can do anytime, with less preparation.

Ordering numbers 0 to 9.  I wrote the numbers in a cardstock as a control card.  This will familiarize the child of our number system and its ordering.

 

Using our flash cards and foam numbers, I made him match the numeral symbol to the amount of objects shown in the cards.  First we count the objects and and allow him to pick the correct number symbol from the container and match it with the card.

   

The infamous numbers and counters.  We used any kind of counters we have… as seen here, we used buttons and bears.

Water bottle caps and stickers for one-to-one correspondence work. 

 

Flash cards and bingo chips for one-to-one correspondence work again.

 

 

I also printed out some cards from online.  I forgot the link as this was years ago, so please do let me know if you own this printable or know the link.

And there you go! Hope this will jumpstart your math adventures with your little ones.  Happy counting!

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Color Theory Part II

We continued our activities on colors and this time, we discuss how tertiary colors are produced using primary and secondary colors.  (Color Theory Part I here)

I took out the rest of Crayola paints that we have and printed out the Color Wheel worksheets from Spell Out Loud.  Again, we used cotton swabs instead of paint brushes.

Here we started filling up the primary and secondary colors in the wheel.

I used this glass that we have to mix the colors.  As you can see on the left side, he wanted to see whether the orange paint matches the orange color he produced out of mixing red and yellow.  We did this comparison to the rest of the colors in the wheel.

 

We completed the wheel but eventually he complained that he’s tired (more on BORED actually).

So right on the spot I cut out small papers and showed him some color mixing activity.  He enjoyed it to bits!  He keeps on guessing the abstract image that we produced.

Look at all these lovely colors!  You should try this at home :)

I made these little butterflies.  My son wanted to hang them in his room, brilliant idea!

Happy Monday!

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