Green Series
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Organic Shapes
Monday, October 22, 2012
After learning all about lines, we moved to learning about organic shapes!
I came across an artwork (sorry forgot the link), and was inspired with the artworks they did, and this is where I got the idea. So I don’t take credit for this idea and creativity :) Promise to post the link if I encounter it again.
First we tear up free form shapes from a piece of paper. We use our hands to tear the papers, I realize that it’s difficult and tiring, especially for him. Then painted them as we like.
I added borders on my organic shapes. And added a few more details for the border. My son wants to glue his organic shapes on a piece of black paper. He wants to add details by writing letters (Oh he’s still obsessed with them!).
And here’s my work :) Since I got black borders, I glued mine on a piece of white paper.
The end products looks awesome!
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Noah’s Ark
Friday, October 19, 2012
Discovered this wonderful book at the library! This book contains Bible’s Old Testament stories and is accompanied by kids illustrations per story.
For this week, we had Noah’s Ark. It’s so inspiring to see kids interpretation of the story.
So I tried it with my little boy. Here he is drawing the “big ship” of Noah.
He added animals (see the ones on the sides), added skies, birds.
He painted two images on top of the ark... “that’s Noah and his friend”.
We will be doing this weekly, and would most probably incorporate Bible verses and my best resource would be Carisa’s blog of Raising Rock Star.
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Artist Study – Pablo Picasso
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
A few months ago, we look into the works of Pablo Picasso. With the Pablo Picasso books we have on hand, we did some practice!
Here, we’re doing Sylvette, the girl with a ponytail :)
Then we tried a cubist portrait. The Dad is the model here :)
Then he wanted to make a portrait of himself lol.
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Beginning and Ending Sounds (FREE Worksheets)
Monday, October 15, 2012
Well, I was disappointed for he wasn’t challenged at all! He finished both sets in less than 10 minutes.
Well I might as well think of another way of challenging him. For now, if interested, here’s a link to my Montessori Pink Series and Montessori Blue Series worksheets.
For ideas on the materials to use for learning how to read you can check this post, Beginning Reading: Language Objects and Activities.
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Asia...
Thursday, October 11, 2012
We just got back from our trip back home (Philippines) and I think it’s best time to talk about ASIA. BUT ASIA is just huge! It’s something that I cannot just talk about in one week. There’s just MORE to tell about it. So next week, we’ll do the basic, I’ll give him introductory topics about ASIA:
- Famous landmarks and historical sites
- The languages spoken in different countries.
- Animals that lives in Asia
- Maps and flags
Then we’ll go in depth with Philippines, China and India.
- History of each countries (simplified for a 4 yrs old)
- The languages they use
- Currencies
- Lifestyle of the people, Culture
- Maps and Flags
- Famous landmarks and the story behind it
- Foods
- Stories originated from each countries. As of now, I only got books from the Philippines, I check the local library if I could find some for China and India.
Lakes and Islands
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
We started looking into landforms. And this work is very much inspired my The Adventures of Bear. The landforms cards were downloaded from Montessori Materials and they are for free!
Now to make my landforms, I used plasticine... filled it with water and added the sailboat as seen on the post of Julie. My son totally loved it! We’ll delve into these land and water forms once he gets a hang of it. For now he’s busy playing with the water and the boats :)
Happy learning and playing!
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Study of the Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctic Unit)
Monday, October 8, 2012
- Polar Lands
- Polar Lands (100 Things You Should Know About...)
- The Polar Region's Most Amazing Animals