Coming form a beautiful island, Puerto Rico, I am always trying to teach Pinky about the beauty of nature. The pros about living in the States are the seasons appreciation. All the splendid changes, the weather, the plants, the animals. The cons are the nearby family, of course, and the missing never ending summer, the sun, the beaches, the peaceful sound of the “coquies” at night, the exposure to nature everywhere. Inside home (lizards, coquies, ants, etc. that make it inside with such a great ability), on your not fenced yard, within the curved country roads, at our country house. How much I miss my pretty Puerto Rico!

I had to learn how to love (or at least tolerate..oopps sorry about the sincere feeling!) the changing weather, how to survive the cold Winter, my Spring allergies and the short Summers. I have to do it because I want my daughter to love every bit of our nature, our earth. I want her to take care of our world and be grateful for the beautiful gift. In order to achieve this learning, sometimes I have to slow down the stressful day, forget the chores, and just listen to what God is gifting us.

Here’s what we heard:

 

Have a Great Week and Keep Listening!!!

Ok daddy…you are so lucky for pulling almost 45 extra pounds up !!!!

Building up muscles! lol

Have a blessed week!!!!

 

I promise this is the last post about the pond. I think I got too much excited about this theme. Well, it seems like a lot but taking into consideration that we have been doing it for almost 3 weeks (we just do it afterschool, weekends, and not everyday because we love to do plenty of other fun stuffs) and Pinky is really fast at finishing the activities or don’t get interested for a long time, it looks ok. I tried to include a little of every subject or different activities to choose but with the same subject just to have choices. In this post we have:

Language

Frog 3 part cards from the great site Montessori Print Shop (FREE). Here’s a great post from Montessori MOMents using this material.

Matching turtle figurines to cards and checking their names. (just checking their names because I don’t pretend that my 3 years old will learn them lol) I made the cards…they are not that great but if someone need them, let me know. I tried to match the figurines with the real turtle pictures (and names) the best I could. However, Pinky got to match them without any problem and realized that there are different kind of turtles.

Fish and turtle 3 part cards. These are form ABC Teach here.

Worksheets. These are from here, here and here.

 

Science

Grow your own frog. This is amazing because it only lasts a few days with this huge size until it gets back to its original size. Then, after putting back in water it grows again.

 

Frog life cycle. The printable is from here and the frogs bought them at ebay. I made the frog life cycle puzzle with a green foam sheet inspired by this. She loved it!

Tadpole                                       Tadpole with legs

  Froglet                                           Adult frog

 

Music-Song-Rhyme time

5 green and speckled frogs- These are from Childcareland.com.

Games

Pinky loves board games, her favorite ones is the memory game. Thanks to MPS for this free Frogs memory game. We have a blast and you can tell who won.

Pond field trip

Books

Lots of books from the library. After the trip to the pond, she just got home right to the books and told me, page by page the things that she saw at the pond and which she didn’t see. When I asked her if she saw the frogs, she said: “Mommy, I told you there wasn’t any frog at the pond. I told you already”. Yes, sometimes she sounds kind of bossy….lol…working on that!

Craft

DIY My pond adventure frame.

Pinky ready with her net hoping to catch a dragonfly or maybe a butterfly.

Too bad it was a little bit chilly and there were not insects around.

 

I have more ideas on my Pinterest board here. Also, you can check my other 2 posts about our pond unit here and here.

Learning about the pond was a fun experience.

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