Homeschool Official Opening :)

After a few weeks of planning and preparation, we're finally getting started! *smile*

We are taking the literature base approach, all the homeschool activities for this week are based on the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar".
On Monday, this week, we worked on a few simple activities out of a lapbook, a pom-pom caterpillar craft and the highlight of the day was an opportunity to catch some butterflies in the garden outside of Jenny's apartment...
After the short outdoor session of butterfly catching, the kids settled down for a read aloud session.

This fantastic 3D pop-up "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" book was simply captivating. The kids were simply bowled over by the fascinating pop-up illustrations...

Today, we started the lesson proper with learning of the days of the week, the weather and the calendar.
The Days of the week chart coming into good use... take a look at what the kids learn in putting the calendar of the month of July together...

The kids were then given a life cycle of a butterfly, cut & paste, activity to work on...

We went through the life cycle of a human being... watch it for yourself...

Here are some of the other activities we did in the session -

Days of the week matching game, size discrimination game, fruit tasting game were all done within the day of homeschool *smile*

You'll noticed how quiet the kids were when they were focused on a meaningful activity... I was taken by surprise at how they were able to concentrate and do their work quietly on their own mats... it's amazing... Montessori was right!


The kids then had a 15mins outdoor play time before headed back for the last segment of the day...
We read a chinese story followed by a bible story about creation... and we did some colouring activity before we close the day of learning... what a fruitful and fun day!
Looking forward to our next session of homeschooling fun!