This learning pack was a great help when introducing the human body systems to my now fourth-grade boy. I'm sharing some of the highlights of our activities and previews of the contents of this learning pack that is perfect for early learners and upper elementary students.
Presenting our Mountain Food Web and Food Chains Learning resource. This packet is part of our Food Web Biome Bundle Pack. The bundle contains 10 sets of food web activities in the 10 biomes worldwide: Arctic, boreal forest, deciduous forest, desert, mountain, ocean, pond, rainforest, savanna, and tundra. This post gives you a glimpse of our Mountain Foodweb packet.
Presenting our Ocean Food Web and Food Chains Learning resource. This packet is part of our Food Web Biome Bundle Pack. The bundle contains 10 sets of food web activities in the 10 biomes worldwide: Arctic, boreal forest, deciduous forest, desert, mountain, ocean, pond, rainforest, savanna, and tundra. This post gives you a glimpse of our Ocean Food Web packet.
I'd like to introduce a new product in our shop, the Food Web Biome Bundle Pack, which my son and I recently used to discuss life in the Arctic. Our Food Web Biome Bundle Pack contains 10 sets of food web activities of animals in the 10 biomes worldwide: Arctic, boreal forest, deciduous forest, desert, mountain, ocean, pond, rainforest, savanna, and tundra. This post features our Arctic Food Web and a sneak peek at some of the biome sets.
For Mavi's midterm break, I am planning activities that both my 3-year-old and 8-year-old boys can participate in. One of the activities is to learn about flowers and their composition. Despite having done this activity before at the ages of 4 and 6, Mavi is still excited to do it again with his younger brother. This is a new challenge for me as I need to ensure that the activity is engaging for my younger son, while also conveying information to my older son. In the post, you can find out how I made the boys work together in the activities that I prepared for them.
Vito is 29 months old.
So I was brainstorming the other way of what else could we do for our Body Unit and Mavi suggested that I should give Vito do a puzzle work. But he worked with our favourite body puzzle already and Mavi said, what about creating Vito’s face? And it hit me! Why not print a picture of Vito and turn it into a puzzle! This way he’ll be familiar of the order of his face from top to bottom, right?
Vito is 29 months old.
This is one of the highlights of our Body Unit! I was more than excited to give this to Vito! Just look at his face on how much he’s enjoying this activity!
One of my best finds this year is this absolutely amazing learning material from Beleduc. Just like Grimm and Shleich, Beleduc is a German company that produces high quality wooden learning materials that are designed for kids of all ages. I absolutely love this puzzle because for Vito, he is just playing a game but little did he know that he is actually learning!
The boys (and I) had so much fun making faces! This is a simple activity that you can do with your kids with minimal preparation. It’s the perfect opportunity to learn about emotions and the facial expressions they can make!
Kids love to learn their body parts! Our human body activities has always been a favourite at home and with my readers as well. Here are some of our favourites throughout the years:
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Last week, I put up a body parts unit study for Vito with emphasis on the letter E. I’d like to share some of the materials and activities I prepared for him, of which he truly enjoyed.
1. Recognition of body parts.
Vito knows most of his body parts so I introduced our Body Parts Cards to him for abstract presentation. The cards were used for identification, but in different ways.
We are using my The Parts of the Body cards which you can get from here.
2. Letter E objects
I’ve got three objects for our letter e: eye, elephant and egg. I so love this method! To expand the child’s vocabulary, learn phonics and letters all at the same time!
Vito always goes to this tray and would give me the object and say its name. As for letter e, I love that he can remember the sound of ‘e’ whenever he encounters this in books! How amazing!
3. Writing using our Egg shaped crayons
We are using Crayola here.
4. Tracing the body
5. Letter E for egg
So he worked on peeling the eggshells…
and devoured the egg!
And we later on used the eggshell in our letter E craft.
6. Making a face
I cut out some different shapes, used a yarn for the hair and paper plate for the head and we have this cute face! Vito was happy enough to wipe out all the glue as well.
7. Body Parts Puzzle
Yes, if there’s one time that a little toddler can do with body parts is to start using a simple dress-up bear puzzle, with head, body and legs portion and being emphasized. He couldn’t fit perfectly the pieces yet but he knows exactly where to put the head, limb and legs. We’ll do more of this!
And that’s about our activities for learning the body parts. Don’t forget to pin this for later!
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