the life cycles of butterfly and frog

Lately I made two pop-up books.

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Book cover of The Life Cycle of a Frog.

There are four pages in each book,

in this frog book are eggs, tadpole, baby frog and adult frog.

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The book cover of The Life Cycle of a Butterfly.

Eggs, caterpillar, coccoon and butterfly.

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Top view of partly opened book.

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Top view of fully opened book.

owl

We learned about owl last week.

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Made an owl model (from DK eyewitness)..

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Read a story book.

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Getting bones out of an owl pellet.

(finding the bones was excited but pulling all the fur is really yucky!!)

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The bones.

(we threw away 2 pieces of black hard brain)

carboniferous

Latest update on XP's science unit,

she is now doing prehistory period.

The note above is on Carboniferous.

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leave

XP showed me this leaf which she found in hubby's garden.

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life cycle of a butterfly

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prehistory & fossils

We have finished The Mystery of The Periodic Table,

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but still need another month for Fizz, Bubble & Flash!

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At first I was thinking of continue with the other chemistry books

because XP likes chemistry very much,

but one of the books has not arrived yet (ordered with MPH),

so I think it is better to put chemistry aside for a while

(I am very sick of it already!!)

and do something else...

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Here is what I am going to do.....

(I really don't know where to put them.... under science or history???)

We are doing only the first part of Usborne Encyclopedia of World History

about prehistory time (dinosaur etc...).

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and Eyewitness Fossil,

a lot of nice pictures in it.

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biology

we are using RS4K by Dr RW Keller

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text book

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lab book

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science language,

the first and second pages are to let the students do some guessing,

explaination will be given later (Xinpei guessed the meaning wrongly)

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Ants Colony

Incredible !!!!!

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bean & corn experiment

the beans are sprouting healthily but not the corns,

fungi were growing around the corns, so we discarded all the corn kennels

weighing beans and seeds

XP is weighing out the weight of various beans / seeds

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her homemade "xp's seed weigh"

we are using TOPS #39 CORN AND BEANS

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our "collections"

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more sketches on notebook

these are 2 more sketches XP did for her nature study.

The lines are light and lack of confident,

I think it's because I didn't really bring her out on nature walk

and tell her how to look and what to look for.

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Next week we will finish our Microscope book and go on to TOPS Corn & Beans

which will have more sketching to do, hopefully she will improve on her sketching skill.

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nature study notebook

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open up

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first sketch

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今天上科学

躲在城堡里上课

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是时候写笔记, 妈妈说一定要在桌上写, 不好玩

first lapbook - invertebrate

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interior

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mini book on mollusk

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3 types of metamorphosis

direct

incomplete

complete

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5 types of arthropoda

arachnid

diplopoda

chilopoda

crustacea

insect

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Lapbooking

This is roughly how it will look like,

but of course we are going to put more mini books and decorations in it.

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The centre is telling the 8 phylums of invetebrates.

At the left is the Mollusks book, Arthropods book is at the right.

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This is how they look before pasting onto the lapbook.

The Arthropods book (yellow & pink) is folded up and kept in the blue envolope.

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This is the inside of the Mollusks book,

now mommy is learning new words..... pod means leg.

Here Gastropods (snails & slugs) means stomach legs (they "walk" with their stomach !!!!!)

and Cephalopods (octopuses) means head foot (hmm.... a bunch of legs stucked to a head !!)
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We are now making some mini books to put into our 1st lapbook.

I came across the word "lapbooks" a few months ago but just didn't care much about it

until last week when I browse through some homeschool blogs and saw these attractive photos

of lapbooks done by some children.

I was so impressed and suddenly everything just click!!

We are doing invertebrates these 2 weeks VERY slow because

I want XP to really understand and not just go through it as I did in school.

So we did a phylum one day and everything went well until we came to Mollusks and Arthropods.

There are devided into so many classes that we just couldn't seems to squeeze everything into that 2-lines space.

So now.... mini books came to the rescue, we made one Mollusks book and one Arthropods book.

Now we can combine crafts into daily homeschool works

and I don't have to crack my head thinking what craft to do.

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