Since P has started going to a regular school as a K2 last June, and Teacher M has also started part-time teaching outside the house, our learning-at-home activities has dwindled. Instead, Teacher D tried to fill in the gap and provided ebooks like the Mushroom Planet series.
P has already finished the HP series and wants to watch the final movie sequel. But of course, it will be until this Nov that people have to wait for that. As of the moment, it is the Basidium-X that the father and son are occasionally talking about.
But since last week that P had the exam week which only requires them to be at school for an hour (compared to the regular 3 hours), and coincidentally TM is also a bit off from school, we were able to go back to a little lapbooking. P has also been complaining that the teachers at school are teaching him things that he already know. This past week has just been a good chance for us to learn NEW things. We were finally able to finish his Invertebrate Page. This is after a few months of doing the vertebrates and hibernating afterward.
We were also able to finish cutting out the Wizard of Oz stuff but have yet to gather enough stamina to really glue them on. (Ah! We might really have to buy some supply of glue as we have been running out of it.)
At about this time also, (between June to Aug. this year,) P has also tried his hand on journal writing. I might have to scan the entry soon. It's barely a page filled but for a five year old who doesn't really like writing, it is an accomplishment. He was able to write down most of the words there except for some like Science, etc. Well, TM is not pushing now. Crossing my fingers that he would continue to have a positive attitude towards it.
Nighty night as P is a bit under the weather this past week. ;)
Showing posts with label lapbooks. Show all posts
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
End of the Month, Feb 2010
Math:
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!
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!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
January 2010
Science
Vertebrates:
Reptile - lapbook, origami (snake)
Amphibian - lapbook, origami (frog)
This month, we had been working on the animal lapbook. This should have been better if followed accordingly from water to air habitat but Teacher Mom decided to let the kid have a hand on deciding which one comes first. It should be fun at this point anyways.
TM prepared(pre-cut) the papers, searched for the books and P did some interesting reading and gluing at the library. We can't take books out of the library.
Language and Lit
The Wizard of Oz
a. Included a little of geography. We now know where to find Connecticut on the U.S. map. Our next will be Kansas.
More to do on ti next month. Tornado, dogs, etc.
Math
Clocks
Last month, we started on the clock thing. Used Mammoth Math pages outdoor. We actually went far this time, at Baker's. But P seemed got an overload with the minute part. TM went overboard. We have to slow down for a month. We'll be reviewing this before this month ends.
Geography
We discovered another good software to play maps. Seterra. We had occasionally played this one this month. We've covered Southeast Asia. But TM has already explored Northern and Mid-east Asia. Located usual places mentioned in the news (CNN) such as Pakistan, Afghanistan. ;)
Vertebrates:
Reptile - lapbook, origami (snake)
Amphibian - lapbook, origami (frog)
This month, we had been working on the animal lapbook. This should have been better if followed accordingly from water to air habitat but Teacher Mom decided to let the kid have a hand on deciding which one comes first. It should be fun at this point anyways.
TM prepared(pre-cut) the papers, searched for the books and P did some interesting reading and gluing at the library. We can't take books out of the library.
Language and Lit
The Wizard of Oz
a. Included a little of geography. We now know where to find Connecticut on the U.S. map. Our next will be Kansas.
More to do on ti next month. Tornado, dogs, etc.
Math
Clocks
Last month, we started on the clock thing. Used Mammoth Math pages outdoor. We actually went far this time, at Baker's. But P seemed got an overload with the minute part. TM went overboard. We have to slow down for a month. We'll be reviewing this before this month ends.
Geography
We discovered another good software to play maps. Seterra. We had occasionally played this one this month. We've covered Southeast Asia. But TM has already explored Northern and Mid-east Asia. Located usual places mentioned in the news (CNN) such as Pakistan, Afghanistan. ;)
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Bedtime reading, finally!
Around after P turned 5, DH finally started his bedtime reading with him. They started with Grimms fairy tales, which turned out grimly as the original stories were really like that. DH tried to venture into other collections and so far, it's going pretty well.
At the same time, he also did the Korean language lesson. Basically starting with the Korean letters. I'm keeping my hands off that case. It's his turf whether I think he can find better ways to teach that. (previously posted)
As for Teacher Mom, we've covered Knights and Plants so far. The student indicated interests in Knights topic and we did a lapbook on it. He sure likes lapbooking even though his scissor and gluing skills still remains to improve endurance.
At the same time, he also did the Korean language lesson. Basically starting with the Korean letters. I'm keeping my hands off that case. It's his turf whether I think he can find better ways to teach that. (previously posted)
As for Teacher Mom, we've covered Knights and Plants so far. The student indicated interests in Knights topic and we did a lapbook on it. He sure likes lapbooking even though his scissor and gluing skills still remains to improve endurance.
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