TM made Lola's goodies into useful props for the Math lesson on money. Just a little set up to practice addition, decision-making etc. It also doubles up as a reward and snacks after a play/study session.
Wrapped up Half-hour Clock lesson for now. We managed to find some paper play money and this had helped in mastering the 10's, 20's..At least, he can now add in tens (up to 100) and perhaps a bit of 100's. We haven't got the 1000 bill yet. We have yet to collect and wash real coins for our class use. We should have started with coins but what's the big deal. It's quite hard to collect the coins and use it when we need loose change. :)
Here's what our limited paper money resource bought at 1 peso each in front of a school.
10 - 5 pcs.
20 - 5 pcs.
50 - 2 pcs.
100 - 2 pcs.
500 - 1 pc
Finally managed to print out the Singapore Math 1B placement test. Addition skill is improving, and we still need to work on subtraction. After browsing other resources to work on subtraction, we started a bit of MammothMath samplers on addition and subtraction. The latter is still a sweet and slow work of progress.
Science:
As planned, we finished the five classes of vertebrates: Birds, Mammals and Fish
Even if TM wasn't really planning to do the invertebrates, we decided to start the starfishes and introduce the echinodermata.
The science part were thru a lapbook. We are still working on it. Hopefully build it (finalize in the lapbook) by mid-March.
Reading:
No lapbooks for language this month. Instead, we worked on Reading Starter 1 and Reading Spectrum 1. P finds the first one quite easy. He generally can answer every part of the post reading questions. The format is very consistent in every post-reading questions.
As for the Reading Spectrum, the selections are also easy but the post reading exercises varies every now and then. Different approaches on vocabulary, thinking skills and phonics. P finds it a bit challenging sometimes when the question format is a bit unfamiliar. But so far, he manages alright.
We haven't had a lot of bedtime stories since we got sick at the start of the month. Hopefully, we can get back to it by next month.
Geography:
Not much Seterra Geo this month.
Art:
Got a chance to do a little t-shirt printing with Tita B's last Feb. 22. P designed his own shirt, a heart and two frogs. He was really proud of his handiwork ;)
Thanks Tita B!
