Recently our home country was hit by a big storm and there were victims of floods. My son kept on asking why is it happening (he also asks about storm, earthquake and hail). And that's what we're going to do this week, discuss the weather. I prepared these materials for our weather study. We'll be using it to look into different weather conditions that affect our mother Earth and I hope these materials will help me educate my son how these things happen.
And so we've been doing language and math seriously this summer. So here's what we have accomplished so far:
Language. Initially we were working with kindergarten workbook, but he finished it in no time and seems bored so I upgraded him to a first grader workbook (bought it in a local bookstore) and so far he is liking it. He loves the challenge and the work book got lots of reading comprehension exercises which I really really like.
And we are also working on digraphs using my Consonant Blends Worksheets. He has no problem identifying the consonant blends (beginning and ending) but when it comes to filling up the missing digraph, he's still a little bit confused in some areas.
Math. We are still on Booklet 2 and Addition Chart 3 of Montessori Addition. We will proceed with Charts 4 and 5 once we're done with Booklet 2. You can read about Montessori Addition here and download my addition booklets from Pinay Homeschooler Shop and Downloads.
Lastly, I we're using Singapore Math workbook (K1). Compared to the workbooks here, I love the scope of Singapore Math. It covers graphing, logic and more. I ordered this book from my friend lives in Singapore and they can usually be bought here: Popular Bookstore. They're very affordable, the only problem here is shipping cost.
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Today we learned how to make art, the Mondrian style. He is a Dutch artist who loves to use lines, and his famous work involves the primary colors (a good way to teach primary and secondary colors!) My son described his work as Church windows :)
First, we read stories and facts about Mondrian and pointed Netherlands in our Europe map and identified its flag. (This is a good way to review our Geography/Continent Study) We used this resource from Making Art Fun.
I cut out strips of black cardstock and had my son decorate his own "doors and windows". First he I made him use primary colors using crayons.
And the next one, I made him use paints in secondary colors.
And this is what he came up with.
I love how it turned it! I'm keeping all our works from our Artist Study so I can frame them when I have the time :)
By the way, here's a Mondrian Song I came across the web (Forgot the link, but if you know it or own please let me know for the credits). We sang it together while admiring his work.
Mondrian Song (London Bridge Tune)
Mondrian use lots of lines, lots of lines, lots of lines
Mondrian use lots of lines, in his paintings.
Black and white, red, yellow and blue, black, white, red, yellow, blue
Mondrian is famous for, Abstract Paintings.
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Here's how what we did for the past few days, working on our whales and dolphins theme.
Arts and Crafts
I printed out a pattern of killer whale and humpback whale from LearnCreateLove.com for us to paint. We could out the different parts and had my son assemble it and add some decors on it.
Parts of a Whale
For the parts of a whale, we used our nomenclature card and booklet.
I also have a dolphin nomenclature and booklet set if you are interested.
We love using these cards. My son loves to compare the parts of the whale to his body parts. And we love our Safari Toob figures too! They're so detailed that you can even see the blowholes on the figures :)
The printable comes with an activity sheet for little ones to color and write a label.
Books for reading
Most of these were from the library. I included a Tagalog book about whales because my son loves learning the Philippine's national language :)
Different kinds of whales and dolphins
One of the books has a detailed description of each animal so we used it to learn about the different kinds of whales and dolphins as well as our matching and fact cards.
(Click this picture for the link)
How deep do they dive?
I came across this wonderful site and downloaded their Teacher's Guide on Whales (for Kindergarten). The document is a haven of information on whales and dolphins and it got lots of activities for you and your kids to try. We did How Deep Do They Dive? pages 24-25 of the document.
We were able to differentiate which mammal dives deeper using the graph.
Whales and dolphins skip counting cards
And finally, you can also work on the skip counting with this cards! Just click on the picture below for the link.
And that's it for our whales and dolphins! Hope this would help you in case you will try this unit.
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