The Pinay Homeschooler

Our Printable Materials for February

Friday, January 24, 2014

Hello everyone! I would like to announce 3 new materials that we will be using for the month of February. If you are interested, just click on the images for the link and detailed description of each file.

Parts of the Human Body (new!) in English, Spanish, French and Deutsch

- contains 16 parts of the human body in FOUR different languages!

Basic Human Body Systems (new!)

- this file contains 6 basic systems: circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, digestive,muscular and nervous system.

The Internal Organs of the Human Body (new!)

- the file includes 9 internal organs of the body: brain, pancreas, heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, stomach, small and large intestines.

The Skeletal System

- the file has 16 parts of the skeletal system.

Hope you get a copy! Thank you!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Intro to Number Bonds

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Here's another bead work we did the other day. The aim of the activity is to identify the two beads that would form the number in the number cards (2 parts and a whole).

First we laid out the number cards from 1 to 10.

Then we placed the bead correspondence of each number cards. After which, we started 2 and identify smaller numbers that would make 2. It was difficult for Mavi at first to grasp the concept. We went on slowly and I did most of the presentation.

In between, I would take 1 part of the bond and ask him for the other part. Say for 5, I put number 3 (part) and asked him the other missing part that would complete the number 5.

As you can see he is using his fingers to calculate the missing part.

I also encouraged him to count the beads instead of using his fingers.

I love how this activity ended. This will familiarize the child that bigger numbers can be formed by putting small numbers together (in different ways). This is also a good introduction to fractions, addition and subtraction.

We will be doing this again and again though as enjoys the mystery and the challenging of finding out the other part :)

Linking to:

Montessori Monday
TGIF Linky Party
Teach Beside Me
Preschool Corner
Teaching Mama
I Can Teach My Child
Home + School = Afterschool!

Starting Montessori Grammar

We're about to finish our Green Series in Language Arts soon and we will be moving to grammar after. I like the Montessori Grammar Symbols and Reading Analysis materials, and knowing my son, he would love it too (he loves using symbols and objects). So after much research here are my thoughts on the preparation of materials.

Language Arts Album. I will be using Montessori Research and Development Language Arts Vol 1.

Grammar Symbols. I am still contemplating whether to purchase this or not. I really wanted to make my own using foam crafts but I still have to check our local craft store if they have the available colors used in the grammar symbols. Also, I have to look for the perfect storage to keep the symbols. If these fails, I might need to purchase from here. Purchasing will save me a lot of time, but it's a little bit pricey.

Grammar cards, sentences and materials. Will be looking for this around the net, or if I will have the luxury of time will create our own materials to use.

As of the moment, these are the materials I need to prepare. I just need to write it down to get it off my mind. We won't be starting until March. If I miss something, please do leave a comment.

Montessori Teens and Tens

Monday, January 20, 2014

We've done a lot of Montessori-Inspired Math activities before and this is my first attempt to apply Montessori method in our lesson at home using KHT Montessori Math Album.

Last year, I purchased a few Montessori materials and one of which was the Decanomial beads which despite its price was worth it.

I started the lesson with the "teens" first. I am using my homemade large number cards. I followed the procedure in the KHT Math album and after the presentation and 3 lesson period, I asked Mavi questions like"

10 and 9 makes?
10 and 2 is?
To make 18, you need?

Of course, he has to answer these questions. If not, I would go back to the cards and beads, and show to him the answer and why. I find this lesson very effective as it is a hands on activity and visual. Children would immediately associate the number symbol to the quantity it represents. This is also a good start of showing the difference between units of tens and ones.

The second time we did this, I asked Mavi to do all the presentation by himself of which he obliged happily.

Then we moved to the "tens" lesson. Same procedure of presentation and same flow of asking questions like "How many tens are there in 70?" Again, this is a perfect way of associating number symbols to the quantity.

Then our little game began. I formed 10 random numbers using the cards, and Mavi has to give me the correct quantity using the beads. This was something that he really really like doing :) We'll be having more exercises on this.

For advance exercise I plan to do the said activity on the other way around, that is present him the quantity using the beads and he has to give me the correct number using the cards.... hmmm that sounds challenging! We might try it later :)

And we also did a little "100 - 1000 Bead Chain" activity. Will give you an update on this soon! As of now he just finishes up to 590, but I'm happy that he now gets the pattern of counting from 100-500.