Finding North

Geography basics is one of the topics in the book we are rowing (Five in a Row curriculum)

1.Two Main types of Compass
Magnetic & Gyro

2. Reading a Compass
Read the compass and use the sun as your reference to check your reading.
(sunrise and sunset)

a gift to my husband few years back,
now we are using it for our activities

3. Making a Compass
We used Usborne's 100 Science Experiments.

-With a Needle

  


and Magic School Bus' Weather Lab

-With a Magnet

4. Mapping Out
-Make a relationship between North in the compass and map's North

5. Application
-Treasure hunting with directions

6. Book Reading
Stories to relate:

-Katy and the Big Snow
One of the topics discussed is reading a compass, you can make a sub-topic or activity about it just like this.

-Eric Carle's 10 Little Rubber Ducks

Happy hunting!

Noodles from Scratch

This month's theme is Jazz Kitchen, singing, dancing to Jazz music and of course activities to make it memorable

1. Book:

2. Practical Life & Math
Grocery list, ingredients listing , money counting, and measuring are among the things you can learn in this simple task

Count, pay and go

3. Project Noodles from Scratch
Learn cooking terms by doing and seeing it

insisted on making noodles just like the animals in the book

mixing and measuring

kneading the dough

cutting by an adult (start with banana slicing for your child)
the one we did is still too thick

twirling some noodles for drying, we tried different shapes

4. Cooking: 

tomatoes, cheese & mushroom

Viola, finished product

5. Music : Singing and Drums
- Note reading: quarter note and eighth note, getting a beat

pum pa dum dum

Happy Eating, Reading and Singing everyone!

Book: The Red Carpet

1. Book: The Red Carpet

This book has been out of print, we had to search the last few copies left for sale.

This is  a fun book, so we re-enacted the scene with whatever we have at home.

2. The Story

Add words to your child's vocabulary, and know about means of communication before telephone or cellphone was invented.

As they roll the red carpet, it rolled out of the hotel

..and continued to roll

Chaos at the street

Street peddler selling pretzel got out of sorts

        Street peddler selling pretzel got out of sorts

Pets chasing after the red carpet

Road block did not stop the carpet from rolling

Police are on the chase.

Chaos as the red carpet rolled around town, police trying to put it on a halt

Carpet reached the ferry and the Duke arrived

Police escort to town hotel

3. Further discussion

-Know about jobs in the hospitality industry.

-Talk about people in authority and how they uphold the law.

-Know more about street food and the origin of pretzel.

Enjoy a pretzel with your child.

-Talk about pets having their walk, how do they behave in unusual environment.

-Discuss means of travel, one is thru a ferry.

-Discuss special events and what a red carpet treatment means.

3. Field Trip

Go to a Hotel or places where red carpet is laid.

Bundle your books with activities and they'll always keep the story in their hearts.

Book: Cranberry Thanksgiving

1. Book: Cranberry Thanksgiving

We have now moved up to a new curriculum, Five in a Row, age brackets 4-8. 

First to row, (to read five days in a row) is this book, since Thanksgiving is this week.

We do not celebrate Thanksgiving here but we are grateful for many things, and because of that we give thanks.

2. Bible & Virtues

We match the book with readings about giving thanks and forgiveness.

3. Geography, Vocabulary, Art

We locate the setting on the map with disks (which we drew and colored )and made a lap folder to view our activities easily.

4. Science

We made and compared starched laundry.

5. Sensory, Color, Science 

Before we started our story, we lighted lavender scents, looked at the flowers, gathered colors of lavender, and talked about where it is mixedsuch as soap and oil.

6.  Experience

Though we were not able to make homemade turkey or bread, but having them to eat has been a memorable experience.

Before the day ends, do an act of kindness, and say a word of praise and a loadful of thanks to God!

Book: The Big Green Pocketbook

We are almost done in our Before Five in a Row Curriculum (a Literature based home school guide).

We are about to start Five in a Row (this is the continuation wherein age group is 4 years old up). We intend to continue doing this even combined with formal schooling. Why? Because it is so much fun and we learn a lot.

1. Book: Big Green Pocketbook
A mother and daughter day out.

2. Field Trip: Go to the Actual Places
We rode a Jeepney.

art by Robert Alejandro

We went to a Bank, Laundry and a Bookstore.

3. Arts 
Drawing, cutting, pasting, we are making the stores they visited.

Doing the Bookstore

4. Typing and Writing her name
Same with the story, since we do not have a typewriter, we are improvising with a tablet.

5.Craft
Cutting, Punching and Lacing activity, Make your own green pocketbook

6. Make Believe
Bus riding , to shop visits and souvenirs, we were the characters in the book

7. Memory Game
Arrange in sequence the places they went in the story

8. Materials and Texture
Being an architect, we always discuss different building materials and finishes, now it's a great opportunity to discuss with my daughter.

 Marble top, Wood Floor, Leather seats, Furniture


We ended the week with an ice cream! :)
Go out and have fun.