This week is for letter B. For Body! We had a really fun week and my boys are exposed to a topic that is very new and interesting to them. Initially, I am a bit worried that they will not be interested in biology at such an early age, but I am wrong. And I am so glad that the materials I prepared are put to good use this week.
As usual we did our work on letter B curriculum from thisreadingmama.com. And I wont be going into details for them.
First, I brought out all the books on human body to them, and introduced this new topic to them.
Our favorite book of all is by scholastic My Body book. It is the prefect first book to introduce this unit as the texts are simple and concise. Images are attractive to the kids and they enjoyed it very much.
Aidan and his ugly face and his favourite book.
Next, I pulled out 2 pcs of parchment paper and taped them together into a huge piece and invited Allen to lie on it as Aidan and I traced him onto the paper. This pc was then taped to the wall for later lesson use.
Next, we worked on our body 3parts card which I downloaded from http://everystarisdifferent.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-world-around-me-all-about-me.html.
Her blog have many free unit studies resources, do check her out!
Next we had a discussion of the many different hair colors people have and practiced our colors again at the same time.
Next is the sequencing of life stages.
A little exercise game. They have to take turns to choose the numeral cards and action cards and do the action that many times. I used our Chinese numeral cards for this. Nasty and cunning mummy...
And we had a fun time singing and dancing to the song: Head and shoulders, knees and toes.
We are fortunate enough to own lots of the leapfrog educational leap reader materials. And we used the set of human body to reinforce what we have learnt. Mostly on the digestive systems as that is what big brother Aidan is interested in since we read My Body book from scholastic. Child led learning hor, mai siao siao.
Body parts self correcting puzzles by learning journey.
We watched the magic school bus episode on digestive system on youtube. The boys first time watching magic school bus shows and they loved it.
Next we build our body map. The organs images are downloaded from confessionsofahomeschooler blog. The boys have to color in the images first then we taped them to our body.
Allen trying to put the large intestine at the head -.-"
And finally a cut and paste worksheet I got from the internet. Forgot to save the link down, so sorry...
For numbers practice, Allen used the flashcards and learnt counting and sequencing to 20.
And we worked on the counting puzzles from learning journey as well. We snatched up many sets from ROSS at $5 each during the Christmas sale last year.
And we also revised on our at and an family words using Melissa and doug wooden alphabets pcs.
We did many more activities but I did not have any nice shots of them. A very fun week indeed and it makes me miss my work back in Singapore. (I am a nurse:)
Ok. gtg... thanks for stopping by.
XOXO
Ashley
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