Another extension to our continent unity study is learning about the natural resources that are mined or abundant in certain parts of the world. This is a new topic that I introduced to Mavi and he definitely loved it. He was very interested in learning about the products of each continent, what they look like as raw materials and how these materials are processed so the people can use them.
If you are wondering what we're doing when the sun is up, here's a glimpse.
First I would take the boys in our backyard and do some little picnic. The little one stays on his Mamas & Papas Baby Snug (Green)
Now for the big brother it's a little bit different. Here you see him playing with his "fossil collections". These are actually rocks in the yard that he gathered. The Dinosaur Train inspired him to collect "fossils". So these rocks are now piled in the yard.
After he checks his collection, I made him do some splatter painting. A few days ago, I was telling him the story of Pollack, of how he paints using splatters. After that we watched this video of a little girl who's famous of her painting.
Now that he is inspired, it's time to put his artistic side to action :)
Oh boy, how he love it!! We just have to move to the grass though because it's getting messier.
The weather was really really good this holiday weekend so we spent most of our time in the park. We're so thankful that we have this wonderful park just 10 minutes away from our place. The park is HUGE and lots of areas to explore.
If you skim through my blog... this is where we usually go when the weather is good. I am an outdoor person and was an adventurous kid growing up. I grow up in a tropical country and our house is near the beach so imagine all the adventures I have there. And my boys experience this as well. But living in a cold country has a lot of limitations especially here that we seldom have Mr Sun.
So in a time like this we just have to go out...
... and play with the trees!
.... and check the pond for tadpoles and other insects breeding!
.... and see how the clear water flows in the creek.
I've been assessing my Mavi's progress in mathematics for the past days. Math is the least of his interest as of the moment. So during our Math hiatus, I was checking my list and so far he knows and understands everything on it. In fact he is way beyond his years according to his teacher.
Now as summer vacation is approaching I'm thinking that we should be a little bit more serious with Math this time by being religious to our schedule :)
So for May here's what we're going to have for Math:
Skip counting. We started with 2's and next will be of 5's and 10's.
Here we are using the beads in our Decanomial Bead Bars with Box
After the beads and label activity, I made him skip count all the way through 100 and counting it backwards as well.
Number Symbol and Quantity (Tens)
Here we're using the same materials. My objective here is for Mavi to master the identification of number symbols and its equivalence in quantity.
Activity 1: Place the correct number of beads, given the number symbols.
Activity 2: Identify the number symbols, given the quantity.
Activity 3. Writing the number symbols. Mavi has no problem writing the numbers from 1 to 100. But it's a different story when it comes to hundreds and thousands :)
Number Symbol and Quantity (Hundreds)
The same activities with the tens but here we are using our Bead Material
Activity 1:
Activity 2:
Activity 3. Mavi is still confused writing the hundreds and thousands. When he wants to write 321, he writes it like 300 21, similar with 1100... he writes it 1000 100. Now this is pretty normal but I just think that we needed to practice more on this during our spare time.
Hundred Board with Control Chart
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