Home teaching - The Lorax

The lapbook we do for this month was based on The Lorax by Dr Seuss.   

This book touched on the corporate greed poses danger to the nature.   I used this book to teach Png Png about greed and saving the environment.

Png Png drew many truffula trees, some intact, some been chopped down by The Once-ler on the  lapbook cover.

The following activities were extracted from http://www.homeschoolshare.com/lorax.php

What could The Once-ler have done differently

Ways to fight polluction

Needs vs wants

Sort materials for recycling

Label parts of a tree

Polite vs rude

Comprehension from https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzC_fN5Bj20NKccS6mrEho76U99-6MWyUBWqPYsWaLpL9csHc-ZGJNQoyCvK7lQY4vzadlsE3krpjm3vV64eREXgzJlAa7rzCp4qVRmsh0iEE41u0LVp-g7taeeDL3CyDtumLgCWOICg/s1600/lorax%20worksheet.png

Word search from https://www.earlymoments.com/dr-seuss/List-of-Dr-Seuss-books1/The-Lorax/ColoringPages-Lorax/

Cause and effect

Vocabulary
















Applied Math

I borrowed the book Recycling step by step from the library.

We did the activity at the end of the book

Bento for Sep 2014

The food art I made in the month of September

Bird - front and side view

 Weighing scale - Png Png was fascinated that he could turn the pointer on the weighing scale

Crouching Tiger

Submarine

The Lorax - this is in line with the lapbook we do this month

Lele from Smaland (Ikea)

Truffula tree from The Lorax - another bento in line with the lapbook we do this month

Every storm in life is followed by a rainbow

Woof woof

Monkey eats grapes

The haze was bad.   PSI index reached the danger level for the past few days.   I made this bento hoping it pours.   The sky answered my call, slight rain on the day followed by pour on the following day.   Yipee!!!

First time I tried out this honey soy chicken drumstick recipe.   I also made mashed potato to go with the honey soy chicken drumstick

Grape vine

Two bunny buddies

Cruise in ocean liner

Little cottage

Whose eggs?

Teddy bear, teddy bear

Art work done in Carpe Diem

The art work that Png Png did in Carpe Diem

Chameleon water color art - after the picture was painted, rubbing alcohol was applied onto the drawing.   The children saw how the colors blended with one another and the texture of the paper changed after the rubbing alcohol was applied.   After the painting was dried,  salt was added to add the scaly effect on the chameleon's skin.   The chameleon art was painted with water color for the final touch.

Collage art of the nature.

Imaginary painting?

Finger painting of trees

Outdoor photo shoot with Orange Studio

I bought outdoor photo shoot session with Orange Studio at $15 from Groupon .  I chose Orange Studio as I read good reviews of them.  I didn't know that there were many add on costs like transport cost for photographer if location is in the East or North East side, surcharge for home or rare location, admission fee.   As I don't want to pay for the add on cost, we chose the one and only location chosen by the photographer.    I was very excited and bought matching tops for the 2 boys and I.   Hubby didn't want the same top we bought, so I chose a top he has of the same navy blue.  My excitement was dampened.   The Groupon package included 1 hour outdoor photo shoot but our photo shoot was less than an hour.   Our session was arranged at 7:30 am at Botanic Garden.    It was a bad choice.    My boys were sleepy  and grumpy especially Png Png.   The photographer was not good at handling kids unlike what I read from the reviews.   The photography style was not what I wanted.   So, I chose 5 edited 5R soft copies as per the package.

After the photo shoot, we visited Jacob Ballas Children's Garden.   It happened that there were girl guides from a few secondary schools doing their special project to earn their PNA points.   The girl guides paired up to conduct tours for visitors to the Jacob Ballas Children's Garden.   One of the girl guides was very outspoken and talked a lot to me.  I enjoyed listening to their introduction about the plants in the garden while my boys enjoyed the mist from the set up in the picture below.   Visitors turn the lever at the side of a box, there will be mist spraying down from the 'tree'.   This made my boys feel cool and merry.   They were irritated by the heat on that hot sunny morning.