Montessori Addition Charts (FREE Addition Booklets!)
Monday, June 17, 2013
Animals Around the World
Friday, June 14, 2013
Finally! All files are up now and you can purchase materials for Antarctica, Australia/Oceania, Asia and Africa. Here's the link to all of my animals around the world file. (Click the pictures for the link)
Animals of Antarctica
Animals of Africa
Animals of Asia
Animals of Australia
Animals of Europe
Animals of North America
Animals of South America
And for my FREEBIES you can check it out here. I am currently working on a page listing all of my freebies and archiving all those with prices for easier access. So I'm asking for your patience and understanding... it will be up soon and you can view the freebies and those with prices in one click.
Thank you soooo much everyone! Hope you are liking all of these!
Happy happy Father's Day weekend to all!
Botany Unit: Plant Life Cycle and Photosynthesis
Thursday, June 13, 2013
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
To wrap up our Plant Study, we looked into the process of Photosynthesis. We talked about the source of light, the water and the carbon dioxide that the plant needed to produce oxygen.
I printed a few worksheets from Education.com for him to work on.
Here's a helpful animation about Photosynthesis.
LIFE CYCLE OF A PLANT
Another worksheet from Education.com, here ordering the stages of a plant's life.
EXPERIMENT
To see how the fluids move inside the plant, we did a little experiment. We put some stalks of celery into a glass of water containing a blue food coloring.
The results as of Day 1. The leaves and the tip of the stalks have blue spots and the leaves turned into blue. That's because the blue water has been transported around the plants :) I love how visible the blue pigments are in the leaves! (You can click the pictures for a much bigger image)
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Botany Unit: The Plant
Monday, June 10, 2013
Last week's activity: The Plant (my son is obsessed with Legos and he made a Lego plant similar to our cards LOL)
This is how I store my nomenclature cards. Nothing fancy, just a green cardstock (Green for Botany) and divided it into three sections. I measured the width and height of the cards to make sure they fit well in each pocket.
First we read books. I started discussing how does a plant grow, what does it do and it's essential role on our environment.
Then I took out our materials. This sunflower plant is from his school. It's a perfect model for our study.
Next thing, we talk about the different parts of the plant. As seen here, he's working on the parts of the plant nomenclature cards.
We also have blank labeling card worksheets. He colors each part of the plant and writes the label/s on it. He loved this!
Because I run out of felt, I wasn't able to prepare a poor man's version of a plant puzzle. So instead I have him make a plant out of colored papers. He did most of the work here. All I did was to draw the outlines on the paper and assist him in cutting the parts.
This is how it looks like when he was done. I read the booklet to define each parts as he formed his plant.
If you may ask, all materials seen here (nomenclature, worksheet and booklet) are all in one file (click the picture for the link).
And because he can't get enough of what he has learned, he collected these on our way home from school.
Next post is all about photosynthesis and plant life cycle.
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