The Nile River

Continuing our World History study, we read about the people of Egypt and the richness of the Nile River.  We pinpoint the location of the river in the map and how the civilization of the Egyptians started in this great river.

After reading Chapter 2 of the SOTW, we proceeded immediately with the mini-projects it suggested. One of which is creating a model of the Nile River.  We could have done this outside, but the weather has been really terrible this week so we made use of our art crafts at home and whatever we could find to make our model as close to the description of the river.

Below in the picture, Mavi using blue crepe paper for the river forming a delta going to the Mediterranean Sea.  Here we discussed what is a “delta”.  A good review of our landform lesson.

 

He added some playdough to plant our mini trees (from our front yard) and made pyramids out of LEGO bricks.

 

I added accent to his project by painting the base with green paint to represent some lush farmlands. And this completed his Nile River Project!

Next I will be sharing our map work and the first mummies :D

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Teeny Weeny Tot School

Vito’s activities were limited to a few because I was recovering from a flu and at the same time I was catching up on some chores.  Hopefully we’ll be doing something more meaning next week.

Lego Transfer

I’m allowing Vito to explore the bricks on his own.  We were supposed to do a Lego transfer activity but he couldn’t get it yet because he wasn’t paying attention. To him the bowl is more interesting rather than the bricks.

Finger Transfer

Again I used the yogurt and food colouring for this. He loves this activity!

 

And I have to capture his masterpiece on a piece of paper :)

Book of the Week:  Mr Brown Can Moo

We’ve been reading this book for days and Vito enjoys listening to my voice!  He’s so cute whenever he attempts to follow his Mom making the sounds in the book.  Then I would also show him the animal figures that are mentioned in the book.  Sorry no actual photos during the activity as I’m holding him and the book as well.

Ball Drop

This is such a simple activity with a homemade toy as I don’t want to splurge on kids’ commercial toys. I made a hole in a box of orange juice and would instruct him to drop the ball.  I would demonstrate and he attempts to follow but without success.  He can only hold the ball up to the top of the box but cannot make his little hands drop the ball. Awww. So cute!

                        

See the picture below? He’s attempting to drop it but couldn’t do it. He uses his mouth to catch the from dropping. So cute!

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Human Body Unit: The Internal Organs

The second week of our Science curriculum is all about the Human Body.  The first part of our study is the internal organs.  We’ve tackled this subject a couple of times now and below are the links of our previous studies:

• Introduction to Internal Organs
• Puzzles and Nomenclature Cards
• Different Internal Organs (Modelling using PlayDoh)

History: Earliest People

Here are the activities for the first chapter of the Story of the World Vol 1 Earliest People.  (Based on the Activity Book Vol 1) [Affiliate link]

Map and Activity Sheets 

I took a photo of Mavi’s interpretation of the nomads living inside a tent and with a campfire.

 

Cave Painting

The book also suggests that you try cave painting (pretend) as a means of communication or recording of events. 

LEGO Project

As much as possible to we love to incorporate LEGO in our work. So here we made Jericho, the first city… just as the book described it.