My son is fond of collection pine cones. Because I got tired of seeing them around the house, here’s what we did with them...
Now we got lots of these colorful pine cones and I just have to look for some baskets in the thrift shop where I can pile them and display it in our kitchen window.
It’s so difficult to write a post these days. (been busy with personal work). Good thing I keep pictures so it’s for me to track back the activities we did on a specific day/week.
Here’s the conclusion of our Flower Unit which we started a few weeks ago.
We picked flowers and identify them. We later on used them as paint brushes. Read about it here.
Another thing we did was make flowers out of cupcake cases. We used do-a-dot markers to color each cases then let them dry.
While for our flowers to dry up, Mavi painted the egg carton so we can use them as plant box.
We use pipe cleaners as stems and inserted some beads on it to add a more decors to our flowers.
The end product. I realize that the cases were too big for our plant box, thus... it is no longer visible LOL. He placed this in his bedroom window and admired it for a few days.
He worked on flower nomenclature cards and puzzle as well.
Practical Life
Using clamp and chopstick trainer to transfer rose petals. 
Outdoor
Now this is exactly the reason why I always procrastinate to write any updates... we spend my free time outdoors! It was just so timely that during the time we did our flower unit, we were blessed with a wonderful weather!
Flowers are blooming everywhere! My loves smelling daffodils, picking up dandelions and admiring cherry blossoms. With his current interest, I pulled out a flower theme so I can make use of these interests.
Here’s a craft which was inspired by No Time For Flashcards. The number corresponds to the number of petals in the flower. Then he insisted on adding stems and leaves and grasses.
Then on sunny day, we explore the estate to pick up some flowers and identify some wildflowers as well.
Once at home, we identified each flowers and matched them to the ones in the books. (Books were borrowed from our library)
We also used some of the flowers as paint brushes for his artwork.
He managed to use the leaves as well :)
We such had a great time working with flowers! Reminds me of myself wayyy back a long time ago... enjoying picking up flowers during summer with my friends as well.
Happy Monday everyone!
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Last Easter my son and I had a wonderful time playing this “Where’s the Easter Card” game. Here I had 9 cards with numbers on it, I used chicks as counters and an Easter Card (not shown).
The mechanics of the game is similar to the ones played by Julie in the Adventures of Bear for “Where’s the Cake?” game.
Here, I hide the Easter card under a number card. Then I give him an addition problem to solve. The answer to the question is where the Easter card is hidden.
He puts the chicks on a container to count.
Here he is working on 4 and 4 is 8.
And can you see how happy he is when he guess it correctly?
We love this game and he truly enjoyed it!
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Montessori-inspired activities we did lately...
Language
Blue Series
Pink Series
Math
Reading numbers in different ways... numerical symbol, beads, hand symbol.
Number dots...
Then there’s numerical words..
Using counters.
The end product.
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