Leprechauns with a Pot 'o Gold

St Patrick's Day is not a big thing here in the Philippines, but since there was a unit about it and we already have the materials for it then we went for it.

1. Books: Under the Rainbow, St Patrick

2. Geography and Reading Preparation
Locate Ireland in the Map.
Make a game identifying all words that starts with sh

3. Botany & Bible: 
Talk about shamrock and its meaning.

2. Art: Color Sequence of a Rainbow
The Song Colors of the Rainbow as sung at Kindermusik class helped a lot in remembering the sequence.
We coupled it with activities and painting.

3. Language: Rainbows around the World:
Colors in English,Tagalog and how often Spanish words are used in the Philippines (a short introduction to Spanish influence to the Philippines) and Chinese

Red - Pula- 红色
Green -Luntian (berde) - Spanish Verde - 綠色

and so on

4. Music: Classifying High and Low

- Visual thru pictures (pointing and looking for objects), High and Low
- Kinesthetic thru movement and dance
-  Auditory thru singing the high note and low note, play the high low note in the piano

5. Musical Term: Glissando
-Visual thru the logo

-Kinesthetic thru waving the scarves in an arclike movement

-Auditory thru playing the slide whistle

6. Dress Up

7. Do an Irish Jig
Put a clacker (bottle cap/coin) at the bottom of our shoes and followed the dance step.

In the end we found the pot of gold, and ate them all up!

ABC Bunny Activities

1. Book:ABC Bunny

We have been reading this Five days in a Row.

2. Writing

Practice one letter a day in a pad paper, to make it fun. We did a letter tree just like in the book.

3. Science: Weather

4. Music

We sang the book, notes are included in the book. (Music played and  available in Youtube)

We identified quarter notes.

5. Pre-reading skills

Play games with letter sounds.

6. Art: Charcoal Drawing

7. Art: The Starry Night by Van Gogh

Similar strokes to Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting, we have attempted to do, crayon as our medium.

Valentine's Month Activity

We can't get enough of the love bug, we were doing a month long heart activities.

1. Book: The Swan Lake

We picked a love story for February.

2. Read along Book: 
  Valentine Bears , V Book (you may click last year's activity)

3. Vocabulary: bouquet

flower candies for Valentine's

4. Pretend Play: Curlers into a bouquet

daughter bunched this and gave me a bouquet of flowers

5. Music & Ballet: 

We watched online selected ballet performances of the Swan Lake. 

Listened to The Swan Lake by Maestro Classics
      We only made an introduction to this, further lesson and activities can be done with their free curriculum.

Hope you had a sweet hearts month!