Finally! It's ready! You can now purchase the entire Arthropods Learning Pack from my shop. I will give details below of what are the learning resources included in this packet.
The World of Arthropods for Kids (Part One)
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
So where do I start? LOL
Arthropods, is quite a huge subject, especially for little ones who's exposed to this for the first time. To them, there's only insects. But now, here I am explaining to my son that everything he sees that's not a mammal, reptile, bird, amphibian or fish is an insect. And just like those vertebrates, insects are just part of a much bigger group that is called Arthropods.
Materials Used:
The Animal Kingdom Chart (Arthropods) by The Pinay Homeschooler. I am giving the master chart for free together with the definition cards and sorting activity. The chart activities together with the rest of the pack are included in a bundle. It is available for purchase from my shop, "The Arthropods Learning Pack".Arthropod Cards. I am giving away the common insect nomenclature and fact cards for free. Again, the entire arthropods cards will be included in the Learning Pack bundle.
Animal Lifecycle Cards. We used this to identify insects that undergo incomplete metamorphosis (grasshopper) and complete metamorphosis (butterfly).
Animal Figures. All are from Safari Ltd Insect TOOB and Safari Ltd Butterflies TOOB.
Books used (affiliates), please refer at the end of this post.
Activity 1: Presentation of the Arthropod Chart
To introduce the Arthropods, I presented the Animal Kingdom Chart -> Arthropods to Mavi. He's already familiar with this as we have had Animal Kingdom lessons previously. Now I just have to explain, that similar to the Chordates, Arthropod is a group composed of different species like crabs, centipedes, millipedes, spiders and insects.
He loves the chart! It helped that we did The Animal Kingdom before :) As you can see in the picture, we worked on sorting the animal figures according to the description cards which is included in my printable. You need not worry if you don't own any of these, I included picture cards in the files so you can still conduct this activity.
I let him read the description cards and he investigated whether the descriptions are indeed true! Like the number of legs, whether they have antennae or if they have indeed body/thorax/abdomen composition.
As you can see, our little Vito is quite interested with what we do as well!
We first looked into the group of Insects
Activity 2: Life cycles. There are two lifecycles which we discussed here. First, the one with incomplete metamorphosis like grasshoppers (egg->nymph->adult) and the complete metamorphosis like ladybugs (egg->larvae->pupa->adult). You can get a copy of my ANIMAL LIFECYCLES HERE.
Activity 3: Body parts. Here we looked into the body parts of the insects and how each of these parts differ. Like how does the wings of a butterfly differ from that of the grasshopper and dragonfly. The difference between the shape of the abdomens of each insect etc.
Activity 4: Books. We read a lot of books! And my son loves matching our animal figures to those in the books!
And that ends the first part of our study. More coming up in the next post, The World of Arthropods for Kids (Part Two)!
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Monday, June 9, 2014
Hello guys!!! Have you notice anything?? I have a domain already! Yes! It means I big goodbye to www.pinayhomeschooler.blogspot.com and have my own www.pinayhomeschooler.com. How cool is that? Well thanks to hubby for convincing me!
You don't need to worry though. Since I know that you all get used to the old link, whenever you put the blogspot in your engine you will still be redirected to my new domain.
And... you can now access SOME of the free files from my blog. I've added a page that has a list of my free files. Some have links already so you might want to start downloading them now teehee. Just click the FREE Files tab under the header to access the page.
Lastly, as promised.... FREEBIES within this week as we have our Arthropods Unit. So keep on coming back for updates!
Thank you again for the love and support. Your comments, likes and gestures (online) are greatly appreciated.
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Serenity at the Beach
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Our little family was at the beach last weekend for rest and recreation and to get-away from the four corners of our little house.
It was a beautiful day. Mavi enjoyed the rocks and sand.
See that hill at the far end of the beach? We went up there.
The view is sooo beautiful from up there!
And just before we headed home, we saw these swans flocking at the parking lot. Again, Mavi couldn't be even more happier!
And our little boy, he's happy and contented witnessing all these while in his buggy.
Thanking God for these kids and for my family.
Happy Tuesday!
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