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!

Continent: North America

This week, we worked on our North America unit.  Here’s what we did:

Read books. Review our geography map and cards.

Studied the map of North America and identifying the countries by pinning flags.

 

Mavi reads the names of the countries on each flag.

I realize that it was hard to pin flags on Central America LOL

I enjoy seeing small hands in action.  I love to see concentration and dedication.

Our North America landmarks.  This is homemade. We also used our Safari Toob Around the World (not in the picture).  

Learn about the animals living in North America.  Here I made animal cards that goes with the Safari Toob North America Wildlife.  If you wish to have a copy of the card, you can download it from here.  I’m happy to share, but this is only for personal use.  The information written on the card were all resourced from the internet.

Our little moosie lost one of his horns :(

And we also studied the life of North American people in effect we were able to make a Navajo craft.  Read about it here. 

Enjoy!

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Pablo Picasso and the Blue Period

We’re studying the works of Pablo Picasso as of the moment.  Currently, we’re exploring the “blue period”.  It’s amazing to discover that our reliable library got tons of art books for kids!  I got a few ones for myself and I only selected a few suited for my boy.  Here’s what he read had so far:

 

He wanted to paint the “blue” ones, its his favorite color.  So I gathered all the coloring materials we have that is blue or has a blue hue. 

He wanted to paint the windows, and he wanted to add some grass. And this is what he came up with. 

Then he said he wanted to paint the skies. 

Skies, in purple and blue.

Inspired by the “blue period”, his rendition of our backyard using crayons and pastels.

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