Week 26

As usual, Ethan got a routine worksheet to finish which include spelling, math, science, social study and Language Art. He did the Beestar.org math practices twice a week. He had to write Chinese everyday too.

We put aside the Dinosaur unit study this week. Since it is still during Chinese New Year, we did a dragon art this week. It is an easy art project..

Material:
A disposable cup. Cut into slit as show in picture for the mouth of the dragon. Put two black dot on each side of the cup for the eyes.

Cut a long strip of paper and decorated it as the dragon body. Cut a semicircle on the first part of the paper and paste it on the back of the cup.

Cut a small hole on the cup and slit a straw into it so that the kid can hold it as they are holding the dragon body.

Tape a stick ( we use the chopstick) on the dragon body so that the kid can hold it with another hand.











Evan is learning to write number 8. To my surprise, he can write it well. I taught him to write it as he is driving along the racing car track.



Learning number with stickers.
I wrote certain numbers on the papers. Evan put the stickers on each line according to the numbers written on the left side.




Natural is the best place to educate the kids. We like to walk around the condo area and enjoy the natural scene. We found there was a pile of white pebbles near the dumpster and on the other side of the pool. We decided to pick them up and put inside our aquarium. Before we do that, I let the boys observed the pebbles and compared them to the other rocks. Those pebbles are so smooth and white in color.

Estimation game:
I like to ask the boys some math questions whenever I got a chance. I asked them to estimate how many white pebbles in total. They both gave me some answers and started to count them all.
Ethan suggested to count them by tens.

Week 12 Homeschool Weekly Report

Leaves Hunting
Now is a good time to let the kids do some observation about the leaves and trees. They noticed that the color is changing and a lot of leaves are falling off. Ethan shoot some trees pictures as show below.







Leaves art
By using used toothbrush and some paints along with the leaves that they picked early morning, they are making some leaves art. It is the time they got dirty on their hands. This is an easy art to do, the boys put some paint on the toothbrush and then run their fingers through the brush and let the paints splash on the paper. They had to put some leaves on top of the paper so that the area covered by the leaves will not get the paint as show below:







Helping little brother
Ethan is showing Evan how to write Gg.





Health Museum Science Class:
This week topic is Squeky Clean. The teacher is showing the kids how to take care of themselves and always keeping clean. Evan got the chance to play with the teeth and toothbrush.

Letter of the week --Bb

This week is Bb week. I found a lot of worksheet and art about Bear which is a familiar to most of the kids. Library is my best place to check out all the books about Bears. There are tons of books about bears.
Below are the books we read about bear for this week.
Making the bear

The big brother wanted to do one bear too.






Crazy about Picachu

Ethan checked out a Pokemom drawing book from library. He traced the pictures and colored it. They watched the movie about Pokemom and played by immitating different Pokemom action.


Evan is learning how to write. He had to write his name everyday. Most of the time, I have to hold his hand and help him to write. He can write the first two letters of his name well, the E and v but not the a and n.

These are the worksheets I found online for him to do including connect the dots, coloring sheet, handwriting pratice and color by letter.

Letter of the Week ---Aa

This week is another new week for the fall season. I start all over again to review the letters with Evan. Since Ethan is at home now, he learns and does the activities with Evan.

Letter of the week: Aa
Object: Apple and ant
Number: 1
Shape: Circle

I read the stories about apple and also the Johnny Appleseed story. I bought different kinds of apple with different sizes. Evan has to group them according to the sizes, big or small.


Grouping the apples according to the sizes.


I drew some apple shapes and cut them out. Evan has to trace the numbers on the apples and arrange them in order.


Another way to learn the letter is asking the boys to make a letter A out of the blocks.

Ant hunting:
Ant is the easiest insect to be found around the condo area. The boys looked for the ants at the bush and finally got some. We put some food on a tray and to check which food the ants like the most.

On the way to find the ants.


They are observing the ants moving around.


I cut two apples in two different ways. One is from top to bottom and one is from the middle. I let the kids compared them and tell me what is the differences. The apple on the left side is bilateral symmetry and the one at the right side is radial symmetry.
They then put the paint on the apple and made the apple prints on the papers.




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Ethan is teaching Evan how to arrange the block according to their sizes. From one block up to ten block high. I do not buy a lot of Mathematic manipulatives from the store because I know the kids can learn about math from everything that surround them anywhere anyplace.
I used the UNO cards from 1 to 9 and the blocks for the math game. Evan has to match the number of the blocks on the according UNO number card.

I cut the jelly sandwiched into circle shape. This is another way to introduce shape to the kids.