I let him wash the plastic dishes. It’s not that I asked him to, it’s just that everytime he sees me working… he would say “Mom, can I help?” Because at the moment he loves to offer a helping hand and enjoys responsibilities I am grabbing the opportunity to teach him how to “work” on some simple things around the house.
And yes, I don’t stack plastic dishes in the dishwasher anymore :)
Do you let your kids work or help as well?
We also worked on animal skin prints. It was fortunate that I couldn’t find printable skin prints that we could work on, and it resulted to an even more exciting activity: we made the skin prints all by ourselves!
I gathered a few African animal figures with interesting skins and we draw the skin print of each. As seen here, we’re doing the Hyena’s spotty skin.
And the zebra as well.
Then we check out the books I borrowed from our library. We discuss the culture, traditions and lifestyle of African people using the images in the book. Such as seen below, most women are wearing bead necklaces.
He was amazed of this wooden scooter!
We also worked on African animals using our animal figures and the cards which I got from Montessori Print Shop.
Books I got from the library. We were able to learn how to count in Swahili using one of the books below.
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As promised, I’d like to share how we go about our Continent study of Africa. The first part is all about maps.
Map of Africa DIY Puzzle
Since I don’t own a Puzzle Map of Africa, I decided to make my own out of papers :). I printed two copies of the African map in a cardstock. One copy for the control and the other one is for the puzzle. I colored the countries using crayons (or you can use colored pens) then cut it in different shapes.
He immediately spot Madagascar (his favorite African country LOL).
And finished the rest all by himself with a little assistance from me.
He loooved this activity! He enjoyed working map puzzle and it was a big hit! I will definitely do the same with the other continents!
And of course, he couldn’t resist putting the African animals on the map :) It’s just cute how he placed the dinosaur in the water. He said that they’re long dead now so they belong in the deep ocean. 
Map of Africa and Pin Flags
Again my objective here is point out that each country is represented by a flag. So here as seen, he worked on the pin flags which I made.
More Africa updates coming… please stay tuned.
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I prepared this printable for our Continent Study of Africa.
The file consist of the following:
Instructions and how to use are included in the file. Feel free to check it out in Flags of Africa.
