The World 🌏 What an exciting and busy Friday we had at home! Had a late night sleep too for JulianaKatrice because it’s TGIF definitely 😀! 🌍 JK and I made our very first superlicious and oh not-so-sweet Butter Earth Cookies following @minimarco_ ‘s My World Recipe 🤤. Well, she ate all pieces found on her plate 🤣! Swipe ⏪ for the reels how did she mention various countries while shaping out her dough 👩‍🍳. 🔠 we also did some Word Search activity. This time around, she was quite confident on how to do this as we’ve done this earlier this week with our egg cartoon post. (Checkout my previous post few squares back) 📖 also read this book, Marco Can’t Wait. Love their visuals that really catches JK’s time. Well, she read this on her own and just did mentioned that Turtles existed on planet earth for more than 100 million years. At times, I need to double check if she said it correctly so I went on and read the book myself to confirm 😅. 🌏 We also discussed the longitude and latitude but I think we need to do this again as she is quite not to engaged while we were doing this ☺️ How’s your Friday so far? ———- Thank you @minimarco_ for the GA and sending this Welcome to the World Box which comprises of ⤵️ 1. Storybook: Marco Can't Wait 2. Loads of hands on activities as we teach your child about flags of the world, latitudes and longitudes. All materials included! 3. An easy recipe that you can enjoy together 4. Custom Mini Marco map to hang in your child's room as they learn about the world 5. Custom Mini Marco passport to help document all your wonderful journeys with us! 📱 @minimarco_ 💻 https://www.minimarco.com #letsplayandlearntoday #noprepkidsactivity #playaccountsunited #fun_meets_learning #mum_play_learn #showoffyourplay #inspireuswithyourplay #allyearfunplay #supermumsplaychallenge #littlefingersplayideas #smartplayideas #funtrayplay #playfullylearninginsg #playful_midweek #fun2learnwithus #playalongrio #haveyoursayplay #april_play #earthdayplayideas #learnwithkushagra #earthweekplay #learnplaygrowwithira #weeklythemeplay #upcycle_playideas #festiveplaynlearn #earthdayplayfordays

I know a few of you are always looking forward to a glimpse of what the boys are learning as homeschoolers. For this week’s Geography lesson they had to learn how to use an atlas properly. Yes, most of us flip the pages until we find the relevant page, or use the contents page and we know what latitudes/ longitudes mean. However, none of us knew how to use the index or what the numbers and alphabets meant next to the places we were looking for. The boys learned that countries are labelled in red, capitals and cities are labelled in green, rivers and lakes are labelled in blue, mountains and islands are labelled in black which makes things easier to skim through the index until we find what we are looking for. The numbers and alphabets next to the item determines the page and the grid line within which the item is found. Through the Atlas Challenge they then get to compete to see who can finish their research most accurately in the quickest time. BUT the ultimate goal is to learn about foreign places, lakes, rivers, mountain ranges, trenches, oceans, islands in a fun manner far removed from the stuffiness of traditional methods of old. The gathering of general knowledge in this way is retained so that they can then share their fascination with others and makes for good social skills when it comes to conducting conversations with adults and children whom they may or may not know very well. Perfect topics for “small talk”. #chroniclesofahomeschoolmom #geography #atlasskills #generalknowledge

Cetaceans in different latitudes Ray Chin photography exhibition