Making Bird Nest

Picking up the twig around the park.

Collecting the materials for the bird nest.

At this early age, Evan is interested in everything out of the nature. Getting material from the nature is easy and free. After watching Sid the Science Kid from the local PBS channel, it gave me an idea to do the science experiment out of the house. While Ethan was having his tennis lesson, Evan was busy collecting the twigs and leaves to make a bird nest. I told him bird nest is like a house for the birds to live in.

Happy July Fourth ---Making the Torn Paper Star

Finished Product---the Torn Paper Star

This weekend is the big day for United States of America.. Happy Birthday!! It is Independence Day. I tell the boys a brief story about this important day by reading them some books.

We make the Torn paper star today. They boys had to trace two big stars on blue and white paper and then cut it out. Evan is good at tracing but not cutting. He is showing me the sour face when cutting the star out.


The messy table full of paper.

Learning new Chinese Words

Ethan is learning new Chinese words. I have to test him to see whether he remembers the words. Chinese is very difficult to learn. You have to memorize the character and how to pronounce it correctly.

Sometimes, I have to find a fun game for him to play and learn at the same time such as this matching words game.

Week 10 Duck Theme

These are the books we check out from library all about duck.

This week is all about duck. I drew five little ducklings and a mother duck. Evan already how to sing that Five Little Duck song very well. I purposely wrote the duck word by mistake and ask the boys to find out which one is the correct spelling.

Evan likes to do the connect the dot, I found one duck picture and he managed to connect those dots all by himself and color it pretty well.



Craft time: They are helping each other to trace the hand to make the duck tail. Bruno is Ethan's friend. I am babysitting him this summer and he is doing the craft together with us.





The ducklings craft. They are so cute. Ethan drew an angry duck( the one at the right)

I wrote the number from 1 to 5 on the ducklings body. Evan has to arrange those numbers in order. This is a good Math lesson for young kid. Besides, I purposely cut those ducklings in different direction so that I can teach him about left or right. He will tell me which duckling is facing right and which one is facing left.


The boys are good in imitating the duck.

Week 9 Sun theme

This is the learning board which I put all the things the boys learn on this week. Evan completed the Sun dot-to-dot sheet and also coloring page.




I got a activity book which talk about the Sun, Moon and Earth. I cut out three of them and connected with brass fastener to show the boys how the Earth moving around the Sun and how the moon moving around the Earth.



I gave Evan this worksheet to test his counting. I drew several suns and asked him to count and put the magnet numbers to match it.


I copy this poem down and let Ethan recite it. Some activities I did with Ethan about this poem is asking him to find 5 nouns from the poem and asked him who wrote this poem. He then had to draw something based on his understanding from the poem.

The Sun Shines Down
by Katrina Lybbert

The sun shines down on me,
On flowers, grass, and a bumblebee.

The sun shines down on you,
On trees, birds, and lakes so blue.

The sun shines down on everyone,
How happy we are to play in the sun!

Homemade Alphabet game--FREE

Matching the letters with lower and upper case.



I cut out 26 cards for Upper Case and 26 cards for Lower Case out of the cereal box. The boys has to match the letters. Ethan is way too good on this and he finished faster than Evan. Evan is trying his best to match the letters.

Ethan got a great idea in putting those letters into words. We both raced to see how many words we managed to make out of those letters.

Learning graph

I start to introduce Chart/Graph concept to Ethan. I asked to count how many shoes each one of us have at home and compare who got more shoes.

It turns out mommy got more shoes than others and daddy got the least. I think this is common thing in every household, right?

He got better idea about graph is very useful to make comparison.