Showing posts with label printables. Show all posts
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Having Fun with London Playsets & Cards

Friday, 26 February 2016

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We are all in love with our wooden London Playset/s which we acquired recently.  It’s so precious and beautiful that I can’t seem to take it out the bag!  

Now how do we use these figures?

As LEGO would say it, “imagination is the limit!”, we use these wooden materials in so many ways!  We use it for imaginative play, setting up the London city with trains and cars and use our Playmobil figures to play pretend as tourists.

And to enhance its educational value,   I created a picture booklet with cards so we can learn more about the story behind the icons.  Another playset we’re using is the Playmobil where we’re using the Queen as an additional  character in our set.  The picture book that we have has this beautiful clip arts of United Kingdom’s landmarks (including Scotland and Wales).  Mavi reads the picture book as he identifies the figure. 

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Vito is the one who mostly uses the cards (Mavi uses the outline pages for colouring) as he loves identifying and matching things.

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Now a little bit of the London playset, the Big Ben and London Bridge are stackable, and is made up of little pieces.  It doesn’t bother me though. Mavi suggests we glue them but I don’t really want to do that.  The London Eye is impressive, Vito loves to spin it!  DSC_0514

Of course, it wouldn’t be London without those iconic “red” buses, guards, postal kiosk  and  telephone box.

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I am so pleased with this toy, and when not in use as a toy, you can display it in your shelf to add colours to your sitting room.  I couldn’t recommend this enough!

If you are interested in our United Kingdom Picture Book (which includes the cards as well), click here or the image below to purchase.  It’s absolutely worth-it!

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Learning the Parts of the Human Eye

Saturday, 20 February 2016

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It’s Mavi’s midterm break and we decided to look into the parts of the human eye!  We examined our model unit this morning which we bought last year from the local store.  It’s so perfect and goes along so well with our Human Eye Nomenclature Cards and Booklet. 

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To start with, we disassemble our eye model and identify the parts using our nomenclature cards.   Mavi was surprised that his eye is actually shaped like a sphere and yes, a ball!  All the while he thought it was flat. So as we identify the parts using the model, he can’t stop himself from examining my eye as well LOL.

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When the parts were completely taken apart, we read our booklet to know the purpose of each part.  Don’t you just love our eye model? Even the inside of the eyeball has drawings of blood vessels on it. So detailed! 

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I’m so used of making these booklets that I was able assemble it in just a few minutes.  I laminated the pages as well for longevity.

DSC_0436These are the 3 part cards.  I decided to add the eyelid and eyelash in the parts as they are also essential in defining the human eye.

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Our little man was also as excited and thrilled to examine the human eye.  He was observing his brother and was attentively listening to Mavi’s soliloquy LOL.

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And finally! He got the chance to borrow the eyeball and started to emulate his brother.

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For the eye model/s here are the links where you can get them:

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Study of Ancient China

Tuesday, 16 February 2016

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Few weeks ago, Mavi and I were learning about Ancient China.  I decided that this year, we’ll be focusing in country-based studies rather than continents.  Last month we worked on Australia, and because of Chinese New Year being celebrated during February, I guess this month is the best time to conduct Chinese-themed activities.

To start with, we created a small world play tray with Ancient China objects on it.  To know more about this, click the image below or here.

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Then we worked on learning about the location, biomes, lifestyle and culture of the people of China.  We used our China Picture Book and Cards in these activities.  I printed the Asia Map from here and the fact cards were from our Asia in a Nutshell. Here you can learn about the way of life of the Chinese people and their religion. 

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This picture book is Mavi’s current favourite obsession.  He reads it, enjoying his discoveries about China and love working on the coloring/writing pages.  So funny that Vito saw Mavi working on the cards that he couldn’t resist matching the cards to that of the outline pages!

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My 2 year-old toddler loves the cards! He matched the control cards to the outline pages.

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They’ve been practising how to write Chinese characters in school.  He’s good (But I coulnd’t understand what he wrote in the cards LOL)!

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Lastly, we made Chinese lanterns on the eve of Chinese New Year.  The boys had fun making the lanterns and observing the lights.  We used this Hands-on HIstory Ancient Chinese book from the library for our arts and crafts. I highly recommend this book!DSC_0478

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FREE Valentines Day Resources & Activities

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

If you enjoy having themed and seasonal activities, you will definitely love what I have for you!  I’ve got tons of wonderful ideas for Valentines Day, activities that you and your kids will love PLUS, amazing FREE resources!

First, download your copy of our FREE Valentines Day Pack for your preschoolers! They will definitely love this!

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Click here to download your copy.

Second, here are my features for this week’s link up!

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Featured posts:

Fine Motor Heart Art from Our Whimsical Days

Valentine Heart Colander Fine Motor Skills from Living Montessori Now

FREE Valentines Day Printables for Kids from Sights and Sound Reading

Valentines Day Pre-K Printable from Embark On A Journey

Valentine’s Game from Kids Minds

Valentines Day Fine Motor Skills from Something 2 Offer

 

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  • Flower Cards (Limited Time)

    Saturday, 6 February 2016

    This Valentines Day, we are having flower activities!  And with that I am giving away this Flower Cards set for FREE till February 15th, 11:00PM GMT. 

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    Vito has been using these cards already and he loves it! At first I gave him 8 set of cards to work on, but then he finished them breezily and still asked for more!

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    I didn’t know that at 2years old, Vito can work on this amount of matching cards in one sitting!

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    We also use the cards to match the flower replicas which I bought at Ikea.  But of course, nothing beats using real flowers! 

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    To download, click here.

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    Alphabet Picture Booklets (DEXQYZVWJK)

    Saturday, 30 January 2016

    The third and last set of My Alphabet Picture booklet is now published in my Sellfy Shop. This set contains the pictures of objects starting with DEXQYZVWJK.

    A little introduction for this activity and the reason behind this booklets can be can be read here.

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    To download your copy click the image or here.

    Click the images below to download Set 1 and Set 2. 

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    Thank you and enjoy!

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    Australia/Oceania in a Nutshell

    Monday, 4 January 2016

    Finally, my Australia in a Nutshell is finally up!  It took me awhile to complete this set because of the holiday season.  I’ve been receiving a lot of requests from readers to publish this set but I’ve been too preoccupied for the past weeks. 

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    I am currently printing and laminating this for our Australia Unit just in time for Australia day in January 26. 

    So here are the contents of the file:

    1.  Maps.  I included two maps in this file: [1] map of Australia and [2] map of Oceania.

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    2. 3 Part Cards of the Australian States.

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    3.  Country Fact Cards of Australia and Oceania.  There are 27 fact cards provided to learn about the climate, currency, government, etc of the countries that composes Oceania.

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    4. Fact Cards.  Everything you needed to know about Australia and other countries in Oceania is provided in these 56 fact cards. Mavi loves to read this and learn about the people and their culture in different continents.  I bet your kids will love this too! 

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    5.  Platypus and Frilled Lizard Nomenclature Cards. I always include these in my Nutshell series as they are my kids favourite (when Mavi was younger).  Kids love to learn about animals especially those that only thrives in a specific continent/country.

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    Other Nutshell files available:

                                   africa nutshell presentation     asia cover copysm

                                  south america cover copysm       Europe In A Nutshell_small