My Adventure Book (North America Edition)

I'm happy to announce that My Adventure Book for North America is now available!  It covers three countries of North America:  Canada, Mexico and the United States.  My first release was Australia/Oceania and Mavi loved it.  We had a wonderful time learning all about Australia... and you can read about it here, here and here.

This is just in time to for a brief introductory of the United States for Mavi in this month of US Thanksgiving. And we'll also be using our Turkey Nomenclature and Definition Booklet to complete the theme :)

 

Each country in the file contains:

• Fact sheet
• Meaning and use of the country's flag and coat of arms
• Maps of the country
• Biomes and landmarks

• Known animals existing on each country
• Famous people
• Famous cuisine/food
• DIY postcards, images for coloring, postage stamps, immigration stamps for play pretend
• And activity sheets
• Spanish and French Salutation Flash Cards (For Mexico and Canada)

Here's how I keep them in clear folder.  We'll be working with Mexico tomorrow (Mavi's special request)

Hoping that you will try it!  Thank you!

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Turkey Nomenclature Card and Definition Booklet

Look what I made for our Thanksgiving Theme activity this month!

The file contains:

• 13 picture cards
• 13 labels
• 13 control cards
• 13 definitions for booklet
• activity sheets
• title cards

Hope you like it.  Enjoy!

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Continuing our Blue and Green Series

I have been busy making materials for the past few days.  Although Mavi has done these a lot of times already, I decided to have new activities when it comes to language to enhance his fluency, vocabulary and improve his spelling.  These activities were very much inspired by Making Montessori Ours.  I love the depth of their math and language lessons so I decided to try it with my son as well using Montessori materials (I purchased a few).

Since my moveable alphabet will be arriving next week, I already prepared these cards to jumpstart our lesson.  I am still contemplating whether to get a language manual or not.  As of the moment, I am just relying on other's Montessori mom blogs and the ones that are free online.  If ever I will purchase a manual, I am torn whether to get it from Montessori Research and Development or from KHT Montessori.  Having said that, I'm also busy reading reviews on which one will fit our home school.

As of now, we're practicing the digraphs sounds and writing the words.  We'll be doing the beginning and ending digraphs, and identifying digraphs used in the middle of the words.

Continents Revisited

Okay so we haven't done serious "schooling" during the midterm break as I wanted then little boy to have some rest and recreation.  In between Fresh Beat Band and Carrie and David's Popshop, I inserted a few math activities which he truly loved.  Then just before the weekend, he asked if we could do "the world map" again.  So what we did was paint the Montessori World Map. Mavi attended Montessori School last year and we've done a lot of Geography lessons, so he's very well familiar with this already.

Because we've done coloring a lot of times, I asked him to paint the map this time.  I showed him some tricks so that he won't go over the outlines of the map.

Then we started mixing colors for the continents (what makes brown? what makes a pink color?).

            

I printed an activity sheet from The Helpful Garden.  I'm surprised he can easily identify the continents just by looking at their outlines even though we haven't done this for a a while now!

          

We'll be having visitors and they'll be staying with us this week so I am not sure if we can have after school activities.  Wishing everyone a happy happy Monday!

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