Grasshoppers

We studied grasshoppers a few weeks ago and here’s a summary of the activities to go along with it:

PARTS OF A GRASSHOPPER.  Would love to have the nomenclature cards but then, I’m out of the budget :(

I put double sided tape on the boxes for Mavi to stick the labels of the body parts of the grasshopper. Then we did some grid game.  I made him circle the grasshoppers.  I wanted to reuse this print-out so I made him use a pencil instead of using a marker.

Then we discussed The life cycle of the grasshopper and did some coloring activities.

 

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Handwriting

How do you practice handwriting?  In my case we do:

Write a story...

               

Trace numbers..

               

Lots of letter trace and copywork.

               

Observations:

1. He doesn’t write within the lines yet.  I still find it hard to explain to him WHY we needed to observe the guides (lines). This is the reason why I try to make him trace my own handwriting so he can practice using the guides.   Any techniques on this one?
2. He LOVES to write in CAPITAL letters. He keeps asking me why he should write in small letters, and I told him that books, newspapers uses small letters that’s why I’m encouraging him to do so.
3. His letter J, S and N are still written in wrong direction (looks like mirror images).  I am not sure whether this is normal for his age but I want to correct it as early as now for it would be hard to correct in the future.

Any more ideas?

Parts of a Ladybird

To conclude our ladybird unit, we studied the parts of the ladybird using nomenclature cards...

...and the felt puzzle I made.

 

Previously, we worked on some activities on the ‘life cycle of a ladybird’, read about it here.

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Spanish 101

We started learning Spanish last week.  Here, he’s learning numbers and colors in Spanish.  Since he knows how to read, he can easily match the labels both in English and in Spanish with the numerical number.

 

For colors, he already knows his verde, azul, amarillo and rojo.  The rest he still needs to learn them yet. So these days, we’re using Spanish whenever we talk about colors so he can get the hang of it.

I am surprise that he knows a LOT of Spanish words, thanks to Dora maybe LOL.