Sharing with you what's on our shelves and activity trays for the next two weeks: Insect Theme.
FREE Insect Counting Mats
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Due to a lot of requests from our readers, I’m sharing our FREE Insect Jars Counting Mats which we used in our Indoor Garden Play Bug Counting Activity.
Insect Study for Toddlers with Free Printable {Learn & Play Link Up}
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
So for Vito, I prepared 3 simple activities for him to enjoy. These are easy to prepare and I provided a printable file for the matching activity for your convenience.
Insect Sensory Bin
This is a no-brainer. I think all kids love sensory tubs! The contents of my bin are:
- Safari Toob Insects
- Black Beans
- Butterfly figures from Wild Republic
Yes, Vito can identify animals now, especially in books! So I experimented if he can do it with in matching cards. Like the cards? You can download it from here.
Bug Hunting
Of course, the best way to learn is to have a real life encounter with these creepy crawlers. I took out the boys in the yard and we searched for bugs. Unfortunately, the bugs decided to hibernate, so we only collected ants!
Even so, Vito was still happy observing the tiny creatures!
You might also want to check The Complete Guide to Insect Study for Grade-Schoolers from here.
Welcome to the Learn & Play Link Party!
My favourites for this week's linky are:
Montessori Fine Motor Activities from Montessori Nature
Learning Begins at Home from Just Another Mom
Best DIY Light Table Tutorials and Ideas from Wonder Baby
Summer Sidewalk Chalk Kids from Child Led Life
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FREE Butterfly Definition and Nomenclature Cards
Friday, May 30, 2014
- The Ant Learning Pack
- The Caterpillar Learning Pack
- The Grasshopper Learning Pack
- The Insect Learning Pack
Well, that's all for now. Have a lovely weekend!
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More of Insect Activities
Thursday, August 2, 2012
I discovered these rubber-made insect toys on a Euro store and bought it right away for our insect study. My boy was so ecstatic seeing these and played sorting using a tweezer.
It was a perfect practical life activity for an insect study :) It include flies, ants, spiders, worms etc.
Then he also worked on the 3 part card for the parts of an insect. We’ve been doing this activity frequently that he finally understands the difference between hind legs and forelegs.
It’s also helps to have a miniature when working on a nomenclature card.
He’s so used in working with this that he can finish it in less than 3 minutes.
Linking to:
The World of Arthropods for Kids (Part One)
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
So where do I start? LOL
Arthropods, is quite a huge subject, especially for little ones who's exposed to this for the first time. To them, there's only insects. But now, here I am explaining to my son that everything he sees that's not a mammal, reptile, bird, amphibian or fish is an insect. And just like those vertebrates, insects are just part of a much bigger group that is called Arthropods.
Materials Used:
The Animal Kingdom Chart (Arthropods) by The Pinay Homeschooler. I am giving the master chart for free together with the definition cards and sorting activity. The chart activities together with the rest of the pack are included in a bundle. It is available for purchase from my shop, "The Arthropods Learning Pack".Arthropod Cards. I am giving away the common insect nomenclature and fact cards for free. Again, the entire arthropods cards will be included in the Learning Pack bundle.
Animal Lifecycle Cards. We used this to identify insects that undergo incomplete metamorphosis (grasshopper) and complete metamorphosis (butterfly).
Animal Figures. All are from Safari Ltd Insect TOOB and Safari Ltd Butterflies TOOB.
Books used (affiliates), please refer at the end of this post.
Activity 1: Presentation of the Arthropod Chart
To introduce the Arthropods, I presented the Animal Kingdom Chart -> Arthropods to Mavi. He's already familiar with this as we have had Animal Kingdom lessons previously. Now I just have to explain, that similar to the Chordates, Arthropod is a group composed of different species like crabs, centipedes, millipedes, spiders and insects.
He loves the chart! It helped that we did The Animal Kingdom before :) As you can see in the picture, we worked on sorting the animal figures according to the description cards which is included in my printable. You need not worry if you don't own any of these, I included picture cards in the files so you can still conduct this activity.
I let him read the description cards and he investigated whether the descriptions are indeed true! Like the number of legs, whether they have antennae or if they have indeed body/thorax/abdomen composition.
As you can see, our little Vito is quite interested with what we do as well!
We first looked into the group of Insects
Activity 2: Life cycles. There are two lifecycles which we discussed here. First, the one with incomplete metamorphosis like grasshoppers (egg->nymph->adult) and the complete metamorphosis like ladybugs (egg->larvae->pupa->adult). You can get a copy of my ANIMAL LIFECYCLES HERE.
Activity 3: Body parts. Here we looked into the body parts of the insects and how each of these parts differ. Like how does the wings of a butterfly differ from that of the grasshopper and dragonfly. The difference between the shape of the abdomens of each insect etc.
Activity 4: Books. We read a lot of books! And my son loves matching our animal figures to those in the books!
And that ends the first part of our study. More coming up in the next post, The World of Arthropods for Kids (Part Two)!
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Monday, August 19, 2019
What are Insects?
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Animal Unit Studies and {Learn & Play Link Up # 5}
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Another week of Learn & Play Link Up! I am so excited to feature 5 blog posts that has captured my attention. As you all know, we love doing animal studies at home because Mavi looooovess learning about them!! And my little Vito is now obsessed with dogs and spiders! Yes! spiders! So I’m thinking of having an animal study soon, and I now know where to get inspiration!
So here are the posts that are featured for this week:
Life Cycle Art from Minnie Monets and Mommies
Alligator Printable Pack from Mommyhood in Holland
Montessori Inspired Butterfly – Caterpillar Unit from Living Montessori Now
Dinosaur Color Sorting Activity from Stir the Wonder
Insect Sensory Bin from Rubber Boots and Elf Shoes
This week on The Pinay Homeschooler, I am going to feature our insect studies for the past years. Mavi loves everything about insects. it is also important that kids understand how to differentiate insects from other creepy crawlers. Remember, not everything that crawls are insects! Like spiders, worms and centipedes… they belong to different groups!
Welcome to the Learn & Play Link Party!
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- Healthy Living
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The Arthropods Learning Material (with FREE Files)
Thursday, June 12, 2014
FREE Insects & Spider Silhouette Cards
Thursday, June 4, 2015
- Print two copies and you can have a memory game!
- Match it with your animal figures
- Use it as a pattern for drawing.