Toddler Art Journal

LILMUALLIM # 3 GETS CRAFTY

Every few weeks or sometimes months, Lil Muallim # 3 "Green Journal" and ask to work in it. As I've mentioned before he's quite persistent with his choices. Barakallahi lak !  

Homeschooling with Target

LOVE THESE FINDS

I love to walk through Targets $ Spot section and look for nifty things to enhance our learning experience. The following were very exciting finds! Lil Muallims have been enjoying these for quite some time now. The fact That I paid between $ 1-3 for each just makes it all the more worth it. Walhumdolillah!!!

Landforms & Water Bodies Activity

BUILD YOUR OWN

We had a geography class with some homeschooling friends. Alhumdolillah it was a lot of fun learning. Lil Muallim 2 was  the oldest in the group so I asked him to make a model for all the land forms and water bodies we had learnt. Once we discussed the terms and their features with all the kids all the kids made their versions, (with a little help from their moms)

Can find all these.......

LANDFORMS

island

archipelago

mountain

valley

hill

plateau

strait

gulf

cape

peninsula

WATER BODIES

lake

river

system of lakes

isthmus

sea

This ones Lil Muallimahs 

and the following ones are our friends......

LOVE EVERYONES MODELS...... So CUTE MASHALLAH!

More Rainbow Loom

Rainbow Loon Craze Continues

Heart

Silly Face

Owl

Pencils

Table Tennis Racket

Rainbow Loom Fever

RUBBER BANDS RUBBER BANDS EVERYWHERE

Yes we have been hit with the loom band fever too. Lil Muallimah has been keeping endlessly busy learning and making entirely on her own through videos online. Her favorite ones being from made by Mommy and elegant fashion 360. The tutorials are great !!!

Here are some of her Rainbow Loom Creations....

Fruits and Vegetables

Strawberry

Cherry

Orange

Grape Bunch

Pears and Banana

Water Melon

Tomato

Other Food Items

Pizza Slice

  

Candy Apple

Taco

Rainbow Ice Pop

Pie

Lemon Pie, Cherry Pie & Pumpkin Pie

What have you guys been making ?

Found Poetry

EXPLORING A POETIC FORM

The first time I had heard of this when Lil Muallim 1 got it as an assignment for his online grdae 9 English course. To be honest we all enjoyed the process. I am pretty sure I have images of the very first Found Poetry project in our house somewhere.......but for now I can share Lil Muallim 2's take on it.

Inacse you are still wondering what found poetry is..... In simple words its taking chunks of existing text and putting them together  as desired to create new meanings. Truly a very creative form of poetry.

Presenting Lil Muallim 2's 1st Found Poetry:

(he got his text snippets from Pottery Barn catalogues that he found)

I just LOVE the way the rearrangement can change the phrase conotations. This is one way of doing found poetry, would really like to explore more. You can learn more about it and ideas from homeschooling-ideas and poetry4kids.