Thursday, July 09, 2009

Homeschooling Fun - The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Friday - We continued our lesson on The Very Hungry Caterpillar, on this day, by completing the mosaic pasting activity the kids left behind previously. This is a great activity to build up on the eye-hand coordination as well as fine motor skills that is crucial for writing.
We did a revision on the days of the week and weather chart...
We introduced to the boys a phonics program through a reader... it's a wonderful program that's readily available without charges on Progressive Phonics. This resource is wonderful... I had never quite like readers all the while thinking that it's mindless and there's no meaningful story behind it at all. This program has proven me wrong... do check it out!
Here's the reader that we used to introduce the sound of letter D... it was a reader on Dod the Dog... cute and funny story... 
After going through the reader, the boys were given some stickers to decorate their phonics folder...
and... we played a matching game to reinforce the two words we learned through the reader...

Before reading the story book on the Very Hungry Caterpillar, the boys went through the chinese flashcards of the fruits that were found in the story... 
We ended the day's lesson by giving the kids, some Math-U-See blocks to manipulate and play with... 
Monday - We were on a field trip to the Butterfly Lodge... I call this the experiential learning opportunity... watch the video to see what we've learned... :)

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