To make use of our leaf cards, I printed out two samples for each leaf shapes so Mavi can practice sorting them out. Again, this was challenging to him.
And later on, I discovered this leaf BINGO game from the net. The game itself was quite complicated, so we didn’t follow it as instructed. We just use it to play simple BINGO game... the first one to fill his/her card with leaves wins the game.
He loves to draw out the leaves from the paper bag.
He won the game :)
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Mavi and I have been collecting leaves to use for our leaf/leaves study. I purchased this Botany Cabinet Shapes cards from Montessori Print Shop to introduce the different leaf shapes.
Then I had my son observe each leaf that we have collected, to look at it for while and differentiate each one from another.
We matched the leaves to the control cards. This portion here was very challenging. It was hard to identify the shapes of some leaves :)
I didn’t want to dispose the leaves yet so I decided that we might take a look at leaf margins as well. Here we tape the leaves to a white paper and observe the margins of each leaf for a while.
This is what we ended up later.
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We made this simple artwork which involves a pastel color, liquid watercolors and watercolor paper.
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We revisited the frogs theme before we went on a vacation because we’ve been spending too time looking at ponds and frogs around the park.
Here, we worked on the lifecycle of frogs using some colored papers.
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We’re having Ponds Theme this week because we’re spending too much time at the park watching the animals at the park’s pond.
Mavi was so thrilled to see this mini-waterfall!
Admiring the swans.
We also fed the ducks. Ducks can walk on the ground...
and swim too!
More “Ponds” related activities coming soon :)
A few weeks ago, we rowed Ask Mr Bear and pull out a Farm Animals themed as well. My son loves this book to pieces and he can almost memorize it. There were times I can here him do a monologue using his animal figures (Safari Toobs) basing on the story.
Here are some pictures that best describes the activities we did to go along with the book.
Story sequencing. To make it more interesting I added the objects the animals offered to Danny as a gift for his Mom. This printable was downloaded from Homeschool Creations.
Identifying beginning sounds using the printable pack which I downloaded as mentioned previously.
Where’s the Birthday Cake game which has the same mechanism as Where’s the Easter Card game. Another favorite math game!
Oh and this is exactly the reason why I seldom have time to post. This is out of topic, but we really really love playing outdoors.
Animal farm family matching game. The cards can be downloaded here. Well this is just my version, I made this because I was inspired by My Montessori Moments who has a COMPLETE set of animal families for download.
Lastly, we sort zoo and farm animals.
I am looking forward of rowing this again, and hopefully by then I have enough idea, resources and time to carry out additional activities.
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We explored the parts of the apple and tomato after we did a couple of fruits activities. Here’s the link for our apple crafts and fruit stamping.
A brief discussion of the life cycle of the apple tree. Got this file from Montessori For Everyone.
We worked the 3-part cards of the Parts of an Apple using the ones I bought from Montessori Print Shop.
I took out samples of each parts of the apple and placed them on the cupcake cases. After the “touch and feel”, I let my son match the pictures and labels to the control cards (not shown).
Same goes with the tomato.
He was fascinated with the tomato.... he can’t stop touching the funiculus LOL.
So happy that I get to show him what’s the real thing... as comparison to what we have in the cards :) It makes it more attractive and interesting to the little boy. Hope I could do that to the rest of our nomenclatures.
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