Pumpkin and Skeleton Nomenclature Cards for Halloween

As promised, here are the additional products that will give your Halloween themed activities more interesting!  Click the images for the links.

The Pumpkin:  11 Parts of the Pumpkin in nomenclature cards and definition booklet.

The Human Skeleton:  16 Parts of the Human Skeleton in nomenclature cards and definition booklet.

Enjoy!

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Bat, Owl and Spider Nomenclature Cards

Happy October 1st everyone!  It's the Halloween month and my son is just too excited for this year's trick or treating!

Have you started doing Halloween themed activities yet?  Well to spice your month, I've come up with these nomenclatures cards perfect for studying these animals that are popular during this time of the year :)  Just click on the images below for the file's link.

The Bat: 14 Parts of the Bat in nomenclature cards and definition booklet

The Owl:  18 Parts of the Owl in nomenclature cards and definition booklet

 

The Spider:  8 Parts of the Spider in nomenclature cards and definition booklet

 

More to come this week:  Human Skeleton and Pumpkin.  Have to visit a Euro shop to get my miniatures :)  Excited!

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Basic Shapes for Kids (FREE Cards)

They were doing shapes in school so I was thinking that we should review our shapes at home too.   I made this FREE printable so we can do a hands-on and at the same time do some matching: shape, name and number of sides. Unfortunately, he couldn't wait.  When he saw the printed materials he wanted to work on it already.

Using the craft sticks I got from the craft store few years ago, he formed the shapes just as in the cards. I made a point that the rectangle has two longer sides that's why he has to connect two sticks to make them longer so he can form a rectangle.

I made him use white felt mat so the sticks won't slip on the table.  (Click the image below for the link)

(Click the image for the link)

A close look of my FREE printable. The shapes are color coded to match the color of the sticks that we have.

 

Once cut, this is how you can work on with the matching activity.  Let your child identify the shape, match the label or the sides.

  

And for writing and spelling practice, an activity sheet is also included in the file.

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Coming in October!

Here's a sneak peak of what we're going to have next month, in time for the Halloween season :)

• Owl
• Pumpkin
• The Human Skeletal System
• Spider (my son scared of spiders!)
• Bat

Each one comes with nomenclature cards and definition booklet. 

Oh I can't wait to use them already! Excited!

There's nothing like... AUSTRALIA (Part II)

This post is waaaay past its due date LOL  We've been busy for the past few days and I can't seem to include this in my schedule.  Good thing, it is a school day today and the little guy is in school and that gives me enough time to write about the second part of our Australia study.

To start with, we discuss about the animals that can be seen in Australia. 

Animals

Using the Animals of Australia/Oceania Nomenclature and Fact Cards and the Safari Toob Down Under, we talked about the habitats and the diets of these animals, juxtaposed to the biomes as well.

 

And there's the Parts of a Kangaroo (Nomenclature and Definition Booklet).  (Click the picture for the link)

And Mavi continued working on the identification of the body parts and added labels onto it.

          

 

Biomes

We discuss biomes as well, which is something new to him and he loves it! Read about here.

We work on the activity sheets that is included in My Adventure Book: Australia

 

 

Map works

For the studying the map, again using My Adventure Book: Australia, we talked about the different states and territories of Australia and he worked on the activity sheet which I provided. (He's obsessed with coloring as of the moment) i 

Flag

I gave him options on how to go about the flag and he wanted to paint it :) 

Aboriginal Arts

We did these few days ago.

Postcard from Australia

And lastly,we created our postcard to send it to a friend.

              

Activity sheets, maps and information pages of Australia that was used in this study is all in My Adventure Book (Australia/Oceania).

Other related stories for studying Australia as a country and continent:

There's nothing like... Australia (Part I)

Biomes of Australia

Aboriginal Arts

Continent Study: Australia

My Adventure Book (Australia/Oceania)

 

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Biomes of Australia

I made these "biomes mat" based on the My Adventure Book (Australia/Oceania) for hands-on learning.  It's made up of felt paper glued on a cardstock for durability.  Then I printed pictures for each biomes so my son will have an idea how they actually look like.  I also added handwritten labels.

The objects of the activity are:

• to identify the biomes of Australia
• to distinguish the difference of each biome (I used the description chart included in the book I mentioned above)
• to sort out the the animals of Australia based on its habitat-biome it thrives (Animals of Australia / Oceania)

These are the animals cards we used (Animals of Australia / Oceania).

And for the animals, I used the Safari Toob Down Under.

And here's my son working on the activity.  I looooovee how effective this technique is, because if I would just use worksheets first and just talk about biomes without a hands-on activity, for sure I won't get his attention.  But this one, he loves sorting the animals and the felt mats really helped!

              

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Aboriginal Arts

You've been following me on Facebook, I've shared pictures of our work of Aboriginal arts.  This is still in line with our Australia study (Part I here). Sorry if some pictures are dark as we've been doing the activities late in the afternoon.

To start with, we talked about the Aborigines of Australia and how they use paintings or artworks to communicate.  I used our trusted iPad to check some pictures of the artworks and made my son choose which one he wanted to replicate (he wanted the turtle).

 

I also pointed out that most arts of the Aborigine people uses the technique of Pointillism.  We talked about how we can execute it using the back of pencils or using Qtips/buds. 

When we're done studying the pictures, we started making our version as well.  Here we used red background with contrasting colors for the dots.

            

Another day he asked if we could do it again.  And this time I printed out from a random Google search a ready made art for him to color.

We allowed all the artworks to dry and here's how they look like now that they're dry.  The one on the upper left is my work :)

My son enjoyed the painting, especially with animals on it.   The problem is that he doesn't like pointillism, for he gets tired after making a few dots. 

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