My Five .....

Hi,

How are you doing? Did you miss us? I will assume you did :) Packing bags and last minutes shopping mania but we are ready to go in a week :) 

Today, we continued with our theme "All About Me" and today as you know is Sunday ;) I know you probably forgot but it means it is Mad Science Sunday. So, we had a themed Science Sunday. We had to know our FIVE SENSES! Perfect!

We started off with our sense of TOUCH! I filled 5 balloons with different fillings and asked Sarah to touch, feel and guess what was inside. Then, she could cut them with scissors. I gave her choices of course. We entertained Farida with some sensory activities, playing with stones & rocks. The balloons contained: 

• Rice
• Salt
• Water Beads
• Pasta
• Water

I giggle every time I see this picture, teasing her sister was hilarious to her! 

Don't worry! I was keeping an eye on Farida and watching which pieces she was tasting!

Only the big ones!

After that, it was the sense of SMELL! 6 empty medicine bottles filled with cotton balls. I used different perfumes. I know I should have used natural products like vanilla or something but I didn't have any. Anyway, Sarah matched each 2 similar scents and strange enough for me, she did them right!

Then, we moved to the sense of TASTE! I gave her a tomato, an olive, a piece of chocolate, a spoon of honey and a spoon of citrus juice while she was covering her eyes! Of course, you can guess which one was funny for me ;)

Citrus Juice! Do you think she liked it :p

After that, we used this sheet printed from one of the sites I mentioned in the first post. We kept quiet for a few minutes in our room and I wrote down each sound Sarah said she heard with a drawing beside it so that Sarah can recognize it. Then, we went outside and repeated the same thing and noticed which sounds were similar. So, it was our sense of HEARING!

Yes, Sarah could hear the sound of turning on the camera :)

Since we were outside anyway, we did our last experiment with our sense of VISION! I had this egg cartoon which I colored inside with different colors. We were on a mission, to hunt for colors outside! Whenever we found something that had the same color as one of our spaces in the egg cartoon, we would take it and put it in there. We found: a brown stone and pine cone, a green leaf, a red piece of paper, a yellow sunflower, a white flower, purple and pink petals on the ground. We couldn't find anything blue or orange! It was fun!

This was definitely one of the unforgettable lessons we ever had, we laughed and we had so much fun. Give it a try! Thank you for sharing us our fun moments.

Love,

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes...

Hi,

Yes, we are still with the theme "All About Me". I got a new keyboard from Best Buy so we are ready to get back to work. A couple of days ago, we tried to explore more about ourselves so we learnt our body parts. Basic, ha? Well, Sarah knows all of her body parts since she was less than 1.5 years old but she knows them in Arabic so it was time to know them in English and add an extra element of fun to that. Thanks so much for the great resources from where I printed all the materials, they are 2TeachingMommies, momto2boys24 and homeschoolshare. I am not very good at talking so I'll comment on the pictures describing what we were doing. Here:

Showing flashcards! As you can see, Farida was more interested in grabbing them :)

Tracing!

I can see a lot of improvement in cutting with scissors!

See, how serious she was!

Of course, this is a very well known game where you cut face parts of different people from magazines and your child glue them randomly creating funny faces. She didn't know what to expect in the beginning so she was very serious about it until she saw her final products and started laughing.

Counting & Circling!

Finally, Sarah could count without for my approve, kwim?

And now, she can recognize the numbers 11-20 

and can count up to 14 (still working on 15-20)

Of course, she couldn't write her eyes color or hair color 

but I asked these questions orally and she knew the answer to them.

By the way, Sarah isn't convinced that there are blue or green eyes ignoring the fact that daddy has beautiful blue/green eyes.

Patterns!

Puzzles!

Finding the differences!

Sarah could only find the very obvious differences like different colors

but she couldn't find opposite direction differences or more complicated things,

good start :)

Head, shoulders, knees & Toes...

and eyes and ears and nose and mouth...

Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes.

We do the Hokey Pokey and we turn around!

Sisters Love!

Thank you for joining us, please come back soon.

Love,

Me On the Map!

Hi,

We are continuing "All About Me" theme. Today was hilarious, you'd see through the pictures. I think a lot of blogs covered "Me on the map" posts but I found it first on Counting Coconuts. Of course, on Counting coconuts, it is way neater than ours :) Anyway, as you know, we go back and forth between Egypt & U.S.A. so we have 2 continents, 2 countries, 2 homes but one planet ;) so there were 2s of everything. In the cities, we added famous things that mark both cities we live in. I don't want to talk much, let the pictures speak, please notice that the pictures are in random order, of course I had to erase some personal details like street name for personal concerns:

My Continents!

This is the facial expression she gave every time 

she tried to remember the word: 

Africa

Then, she found it hilarious :)

Of course she loves adding stickers!

Glue Mania!

Waaahhhhhhh! 

She actually told me: No, this is not Earth, this is a ball, lol.

Final product!

Thank you for joining our fun and i really hope you've enjoyed.

Love,

All About Me!

Hi,

I have been talking about "a theme" for a long time, I think it was time. Our theme this week(s) is "All About Me". I have so many ideas that fit under this theme. Who am I? Am I a part of a family? Am I alone on this place? on Earth? or Am I a group of functioning organs?Is it my brain or is it all about my heart? Or am I all of these? See, how many things can fit under this them So today, we got to know we are a part of a family. Some members of this family have passed away but they are still an important part of our family. We did a little family tree. I only got to cut the leaves. Here, simple and fun:

I loved her lines & coloring today!

Isn't it a lovely piece of decoration?

Stay tuned for more "All About Me" projects. Thank you for joining and come back soon!
Love,