Here is our Spanish version of the letter crafts.

For this project you will need a couple of days. It’s better if you make a letter each day..like a week project!

Pinky liked it a lot! I am thinking about setting up a Spanish binder to keep all our future Spanish learning projects. Will see…

These are the pattern we used (click over each letter to follow the link to the 4shared website where I stored them). I have hand drawn everything and then cut over construction paper. For some we got creative and used felt, cotton and feathers. Sorry, but each vowel part is written in Spanish, just follow the next pictures in order to get an idea.

Letter A is for:

Angel- angel

Abeja- bee

 

Letter E is for:

Edificio- building

Elefante- elephant

 

Letter I is for:

Iguana- Iguana

Isla- island

Letter O is for:

Oso- bear

Oveja- sheep

 

Letter U is for:

Unicornio- unicorn

Urraca- Magpie

I hope you and your kiddoes have fun learning Spanish!

 

Thanks to Pinterest, I got excited about making some wonderful and beautiful Bento lunches for Pinky. Well, that didn’t go well! One day she came back from school….I asked her why she didn’t eat her lunch….and then she said it! Mommy I don’t like when you do faces and stuff with my food.

Oh no!!!! I thought she would love it!!!….  

Well, the thing is that I wanted to do small things for her to remember how much I love her and think about her….

Then, I decided to make a few drawing on afternoon snack paper bag…..just a few!

The thing is that afternoon she came back home with such a huge smile……She definitely L.O.V.E   I.T!!!

Ever since then, I am getting crazy having fun making sweet designs on her paper bag.

The result: no more boring brown paper bags for snack and a huge smile on Pinky’s face when she comes back home!

BTW, the teachers love it, too!

 

Some of the paper bags in the pictures are wrinkle because she brought them home because she loved them. THE biggest photo are the bags for this week!

Here are a few other ideas over the internet which I am going to try for sure! Sorry, no more Bento at this house!

1. Printed paper bags- here from Perfectly Imperfect. Cute!
2. I am thinking about doing something fun like this for Halloween using construction paper cut out or Stickers from the Dollar store. Here.
3. For Christmas time; drawing Christmas lights….so cute. from Red ted art.
4. For Thanksgiving…I can do this turkey! 

 

What else can I do for making lunch/snack time fun? Ideas,please!

 

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For our next activity about the Space, we explored the galaxies. Very fun and artistic moment!

Part II. Galaxies

First, Galaxies are the basic unit of cosmology. They contain stars, gas, dust and dark matter. They are the only `signposts' from here to the edge of the Universe. Galaxies appeared and as they collided, stars of great energy were born.

Our own galaxy is the Milky Way and has a hundred billion stars. The sun is only one of them.

Our galaxy is not a typical galaxy - only spiral galaxies are rich in the metals our kind of life needs.

When we look up in the sky we see millions of stars, but every star we can see is in our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Even the stars of our own galaxy are so far apart that it takes the light of some stars millions of years to reach us. The stars stretch out to fill the whole space of our universe.

Language:

• Galaxy: A group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity.
  • Galaxy classification according to their apparent shape: (see chart and Venn-diagram from the links below)
• Types of galaxies cards from here. Read more about galaxies here. And for more great information about galaxies, their formation and stars go here. 
• Elliptical
• Spiral
• Irregular

Books: We read different books from the library and others we had at home

Art activities:

• Galaxies mobile: Idea from here.

• Galactic swirls
  • Materials: paints and brushes, glue, glitter glue, black construction paper, sequins, wire, gold paint, silver poster board, white pencil crayon.
  • Procedures: on the black construction paper draw several spheres with a white pencil. On another piece of paper draw spirals. Paint and decorate with glitter glue, sequins and wire. Mount on silver poster board.

    Our final product!

• Paper plates types of galaxies: we got this idea from here and then, after the paint dried, I cut them into the types of galaxies shape: elliptical, spiral (2 types) and irregular. I think we could these as freebies to play.

Science:

• Spirals
  • Purpose: to demonstrate the movement of a spiral galaxy
  • Materials: white paper, paper hole punch, a jar with water, pencil
  • Procedure: Fill the jar ¾ of water, cut around 20 circles from the paper with the hole punch, sprinkle the paper in the water, stir with a circular motion with the pencil, view the water from the top and sides.
  • Results: the paper circles swirl around forming a spiral shape in the center.
  • Explanation: the spinning paper only simulates the spiral movement and concentration of material of a star-studded spiral galaxy like the Milky Way.

• Big bang theory- expanding

• Purpose: To demonstrate how galaxies may be moving
• Materials: Pink balloon, black sharpie, mirror.
• Procedure: Inflate the balloon so that it is about as large as an apple. Make about 20 dots with the sharpie. Inflate the balloon in front of a mirror (or stand in front of your mommy if she is the one inflating the balloon) to see the dots.
• Results: the dots move away from each other.
• Explanation: Astronomers believe the galaxies are moving away from each other. Since no two galaxies seem to be getting closer as they move, scientists believe the universe is expanding. Big Bang Theory, currently accepted explanation of the beginning of the universe. The big bang theory proposes that the universe was once extremely compact, dense, and hot. Some original event, a cosmic explosion called the big bang, occurred about 13.7 billion years ago, and the universe has since been expanding and cooling.

 

Drawing the dots! A sharpie would be better than a regular market! But I couldn’t find mine!

She tried really HARD!!!

Checking out the dots (galaxies)!

 

We will be trying to continue our Space study and will post our third part of the unit as soon as I get the chance to put it together! After moving out-of-state, trying to adapt to the new place and getting to meet new friends, my time is kind of tight. However, I will try to post before the end of the year……lol

Have a great summer…..keep reading, learning and having fun in the process!!!

• Other links of interest:
  • Check our first post about The Universe Unit study  for a more complete list of resources.
  • Mama of many blessings Montessori inspired Galaxies unit here.
  • Check our Pinterest board: planets, Space for plenty of more activities.

 

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I wanted to share with you an easy but cute gift for that very special graduate in your life!

This week our beloved Daddy is graduating, so Pinky wanted to do something special for him. Here is her masterpiece:

Isn’t it too cute!!!. I helped her to draw their tiny feet! lol

Just print your favorite photo, cut and paste. Then, have fun decorating with stickers!

Busy at work!

 

Another one of her art pieces! Her friend at school and she holding an ALOHA sign.

We have LOTS of these cute scenes!!!!

 

I love to see how her imagination flies away making scenes using stickers and markers!

It is also a great quite activity for “big” kids while waiting at the doctors office, church, etc.

Here is another post with more sticker fun art making!

This upcoming week, Pinky’s school will be celebrating Teacher appreciation week. Therefore, every child have to make their teachers an art-related gift. Since, I am having such a busy time with our moving plans, I totally forgot about the project. We just had the night before to come up with an idea to have Pinky in the mood to make something artistic for 3 of her teachers. Well, mommy got really inspired with such short time and Pinky got excited about how fun was her gift. LOL….Mommy power!!!

Here is our project:

• I encouraged her to dress up…..very easy task since Pinky LOVES to dress-up.

• She laid down on the floor making different postures while I was up high on a chair taking her photos. This one was kind of hard since she was moving all over the place…..I think because it is the first time we take photos just laying down.

• Printed the ones I liked the most or inspired me the most!

• Cut the photo and glue on paper.
• Let her run her imagination with markers, pencil, stickers, felt, and everything on her way.
• Outcome: 3 artistic, personalized and cute projects in just less than an hour with a very happy and excited girl telling her mommy: “This is really super fun, mommy!”

For her PA teacher….he is really tall! lol

For one of her Primary class teacher.

For another of her primary class teacher.

• I am thinking these could make such a great Father’s day gift and a summer art activity, as well.

 

Woohooo!!!

 

Now, were are my best friends: scissor, tape, and marker????

 

Also, I am hooked with Instagram, so if you would like to follow us, here is ours: Airamty.

The weather has been Fabulous and Pinky’s new interest is all things POND. Since we have been doing lots of activities, I will have to divide them into several post. Let’s start with:

 

Our shelf set up

I try to set up everything into one shelf since we just do “school” after she comes home from Preschool. (BTW, she is the one that tells mommy what she wants to learn about! I just follow her desires.) As soon as she is done with one activity, I use the space for a new one or rotate them as soon as she lost interest.

Sensory Bin

We just have lots of plastic pond animals and beads.

 

Art

Handprint lily pads with fingerprint frogs. Aren’t they cute?

Footprint frog ready to eat a fly and a spider!

Pom-pom frogs…too cute!!! Found this idea here (you’ll need to scroll all the way until the end. There are more frog-related crafts.)

Completing the missing half. I found this beautiful frog life cycle picture and, when tried to print it out, I just got half of the picture. Therefore, why not to try to complete it? This was a mommy and daughter project! It was fun but next time I would have to draw it with pencil before giving it to Pinky, since she got a lil frustrated at the beginning  but then she did great.

 

Here are some great links for you, they got me inspired:

1- Living Montessori Now (as always!): Montessori-Inspired Pond Unit

2- Montessori Print Shop (awesome place): Frog Match up and Memory game, Frog Nomenclature cards, Frog Nomenclature Book (ALL FREE!!!)

3- Montessori Mom: Frog life cycle sequence cards

4- Squidoo: Awesome frog unit study. Here’s where I found the Frog life cycle picture.

5- Pinterest: I have a Pond board with PLENTY of great ideas.

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