Home Teaching - The Empty Pot

The Empty Pot is a Chinese folk tale that teaches the readers about Integrity.    I like this book very much.    I used it for our lapbook study this month.

Our lapbook cover

The following activities were extracted from 

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/empty_pot.php

Seasons, months, weeks, days in a year

Color parts of flower

Plant a seed experiment.   We planted raw and cooked mung beans and black beans.   We observed that mung bean grows faster than black bean.  We had to shortened the duration of the observation extracted from Home school share before the mung beans withered.    We also observed that the raw beans grew into plants but the cooked beans did not grow.   Mould grew on them instead.

What would I find in China

The Empty Pot plot

What I know about Ping

Flag of China from 

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/china-flag-printables

Map of China from 

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/country_china.php

Vocabulary

Fill in the blanks from 

http://schools.dekalb.k12.ga.us/clifton/files/F2E5DB6B4FC54A5A8D0AC5A9F90C3C1C.pdf

Integrity

Comprehension from 

http://www.readworks.org/lessons/grade2/empty-pot/read-aloud-lesson

Bento for Jun 2014

The food art that I made in June 2014

Sponge Bob

Lightning Mcqueen

Butterfly

Ting dong - doors are opening.

Tweet tweet ...............

Monster Inc Mike

Jelly fish -  inspiration from  Png Png's art work done with Arts Speaks Studio

Fan - more environmental friendly machine during the warm days

Cake

Insect

Jurong Bird Park

It's a long time since we lasted visited Jurong Bird Park.   The last time we were there, we rented a stroller.   This time, my 2 boys went straight to the stroller rental counter to take a stroller.   My 2 boys took turn to sit in the stroller.   The stroller was too small for Chen Chen though.

We were greeted by the various species of penguin.

There was a playground in the Bird Park.   We didn't see it the last time.   My 2 boys were stuck there till hubby persuaded them to move on.

The next attraction to them was feeding Lory Loft birds.





















The weather was very sunny when we started to feed Lory Loft birds but it rained within 5 minutes.  So we had to continue feeding Lory Loft birds at the entrance where there was shelter.

Png Png was very scared initially.   Hubby held Png Png's hand when feeding the Lory Loft birds.

This cutie Yellow bibbed Lory posed for me and danced when it saw me went closed to it.   

My 2 boys played with the toys at the souvenir shop while waiting for the rain to stop.