Noah’s Ark

Discovered this wonderful book at the library!  This book contains Bible’s Old Testament stories and is accompanied by kids illustrations per story.

For this week, we had Noah’s Ark.  It’s so inspiring to see kids interpretation of the story.

So I tried it with my little boy. Here he is drawing the “big ship” of Noah.

He added animals (see the ones on the sides), added skies, birds. 

He painted two images on top of the ark... “that’s Noah and his friend”.

We will be doing this weekly, and would most probably incorporate Bible verses and my best resource would be Carisa’s blog of Raising Rock Star. 

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Artist Study – Pablo Picasso

A few months ago, we look into the works of Pablo Picasso. With the Pablo Picasso books we have on hand, we did some practice!

Here, we’re doing Sylvette, the girl with a ponytail :)

           

 

Then we tried a cubist portrait.  The Dad is the model here :)

 

Then he wanted to make a portrait of himself lol.

 

 

 

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Beginning and Ending Sounds (FREE Worksheets)

Before starting our Montessori Green Series, I gave Mavi some Pink and Blue Language worksheets for assessment.



Well, I was disappointed for he wasn’t challenged at all!  He finished both sets in less than 10 minutes.



Well I might as well think of another way of challenging him.  For now, if interested, here’s a link to my Montessori Pink Series and Montessori Blue Series worksheets.

For ideas on the materials to use for learning how to read you can check this post, Beginning Reading: Language Objects and Activities.

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Asia...

We just got back from our trip back home (Philippines) and I think it’s best time to talk about ASIA.  BUT ASIA is just huge!  It’s something that I cannot just talk about in one week.  There’s just MORE to tell about it. So next week, we’ll do the basic, I’ll give him introductory topics about ASIA:

• Famous landmarks and historical sites
• The languages spoken in different countries.
• Animals that lives in Asia
• Maps and flags

Then we’ll go in depth with Philippines, China and India. 

• History of each countries (simplified for a 4 yrs old)
• The languages they use
• Currencies
• Lifestyle of the people, Culture
• Maps and Flags
• Famous landmarks and the story behind it
• Foods
• Stories originated from each countries.  As of now, I only got books from the Philippines, I check the local library if I could find some for China and India.

Lakes and Islands

We started looking into landforms.  And this work is very much inspired my The Adventures of Bear.  The landforms cards were downloaded from Montessori Materials and they are for free! 

Now to make my landforms, I used plasticine... filled it with water and added the sailboat as seen on the post of Julie.  My son totally loved it! We’ll delve into these land and water forms once he gets a hang of it.  For now he’s busy playing with the water and the boats :)

  

Happy learning and playing!

 

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Study of the Polar Regions (Arctic and Antarctic Unit)

We studied Arctic and Antarctica a few days before we left, and identified the difference between these polar lands.

These are the books we used:

• Polar Lands
• Polar Lands (100 Things You Should Know About...)
• The Polar Region's Most Amazing Animals

3 Weeks Vacation

Hello everyone! You might be wondering why I wasn't active in the past few weeks.  We're on vacation. I have to admit this is unplanned though, so my plans for September-October activities are on-hold.  I didn't bring my laptop with me so even if I have something to share on the activities we did early September, I cannot post it because the pictures are in my hard-drive.

We still have a few more days left, and am preparing again for another 22hour flight back.  My son is born a traveller, he's been crossing continents/countries for the past 4 years and never gave me a headache. Everyone calls him a jet-setter boy!

In a few weeks time, we'll be back in our regular programming, but for now.... we're enjoying this!

Continent: North America

This week, we worked on our North America unit.  Here’s what we did:

Read books. Review our geography map and cards.

Studied the map of North America and identifying the countries by pinning flags.

 

Mavi reads the names of the countries on each flag.

I realize that it was hard to pin flags on Central America LOL

I enjoy seeing small hands in action.  I love to see concentration and dedication.

Our North America landmarks.  This is homemade. We also used our Safari Toob Around the World (not in the picture).  

Learn about the animals living in North America.  Here I made animal cards that goes with the Safari Toob North America Wildlife.  If you wish to have a copy of the card, you can download it from here.  I’m happy to share, but this is only for personal use.  The information written on the card were all resourced from the internet.

Our little moosie lost one of his horns :(

And we also studied the life of North American people in effect we were able to make a Navajo craft.  Read about it here. 

Enjoy!

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Pablo Picasso and the Blue Period

We’re studying the works of Pablo Picasso as of the moment.  Currently, we’re exploring the “blue period”.  It’s amazing to discover that our reliable library got tons of art books for kids!  I got a few ones for myself and I only selected a few suited for my boy.  Here’s what he read had so far:

 

He wanted to paint the “blue” ones, its his favorite color.  So I gathered all the coloring materials we have that is blue or has a blue hue. 

He wanted to paint the windows, and he wanted to add some grass. And this is what he came up with. 

Then he said he wanted to paint the skies. 

Skies, in purple and blue.

Inspired by the “blue period”, his rendition of our backyard using crayons and pastels.

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