Simply-hood: February 2013

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Butterfly Metamorphosis

Recently, I and Fritz had a little project of simple science. Starting from one of my best role in homeschooling, Sis Ratna, she showed me how she adores these insects so much. I was also falling in love seeing these beautiful creatures. Then I decided to learn together with Fritz knowing more about its metamorphosis.

We learnt how to see a caterpillar to be a chrysalis or cocoon then being a beautiful butterfly. Firstly, we had a little difficulty to find the caterpillar. It's hard to find it everywhere because of my lack skill about it. LOL.

Then, Sis Ratna gave me 2 pretty caterpillars. I bought these to Alpha, my work field. Some of students were so enthusiast with them though some were a bit scared. They wanted to see how they ate the leaves. I was so unlucky that I couldn't see those being butterflies. Both of them were died few days after they were being chrysalis. I failed!

I was still curious. Then, I asked Fritz to have a walk in the afternoon. I also brought a cage for it. After few times we tried, finally we found a caterpillar. Here's my first one. We're so enthusiast that we saw the stages till it's being a pretty butterfly.

Jacintha Eggfly

Then my private students suddenly gave me this caterpillar and a gold chrysalis. I kept the chrysalis and I asked him to take care the caterpillar. Here's my second butterfly. Great one!

Blue-banded King Crow

And the last one, I found lots of caterpillars around of a palm tree in my work fields. It's really lots of! More than 15 caterpillars and chrysalis I had. One by one being a butterfly in every single day. So happy seeing them flying to the new world.

Common Palmfly

It's really a process of our homeschooling. Learning from everything! :D

I put the project at Project Noah.

The source to find the name of these at Butterfly Circle Checklist.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Fun : Eat Rp1,- Bread

This week we enjoyed our Rp1,- bread again. This time we went with Oma and it's the last week for having this fun. Fritz was eating a bread while I and Oma grabbed 2 breads each. The picture was taken when Fritz was seeing outside with KFC view.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Science : Mixing Water

We did a WATER experiments. I prepared 3 small bowls with water inside. Then, I gave Fritz 3 primary colors - yellow, blue and red food coloring. I asked him to drop a bit on to the water. Using a pipette, Fritz mixed these 3 colors into green, orange and purple to the ice cube tray. After that, we put the tray into the freezer. Few hours after, he played with these cubes during his bath time. He's extremely excited though all the cube mixed together into a dirty color, like a mud. :P

Fun : Happy Birthday Oma

Oma had celebrated her 54th year birthday. Fritz was the only one who was very excited with it. He asked Oma to celebrate it hurry as he really wanted to blow the cake with Oma. He really couldn't wait for his birthday.

There's nothing special this year, I just made a roll cake for Oma and covered with fondant with a name on it. Some friends said that it's a bolster cake. :P LOL

Happy 54th Birthday, Oma...have a blast! Pray all the best healthiest, wealthiest and happiness for you....God bless!

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Preschool : Letter V and Valentine

Fritz is currently 46 months 4 weeks

This week, we still continued our Letter V and Valentine's worksheets. Here what we did during this week.

Letter V

His most favorite worksheet, V maze

Coloring by an order

Coloring V objects

Color the Vases

Connect the dots into a vase

Connect the dots into letter V

Vine to Vegetables

Trace lowercase letter V

Coloring letter V objects

V nursery rhymes

Circle V objects

All about letter V and its objects

Trace uppercase letter V

Connect V dots into Volcano

Valentine's Theme

Connect the dots based on numbers to make double heart

Do simple addition

Heart maze, he needed help doing it

Color the same hearts

Do simple subtraction

Do another simple subtraction

Miscellaneous

He's trying to capture himself in a photo using my camera. How sweet his smile!!

There's a cafe near Oma's house, KOKI cafe. They gave a big promotion, selling a Rp1,- bread every Wednesday. Of course, I was so enthusiast hearing it.

So early in the morning, I asked Fritz to wake up and hurriedly we went there. On our way, I assumed that there's gonna be lots of people who had same enthusiast as I did. Then I said to Fritz, if there's too much people, we had to back home without getting any bread.

Ohh....I was totally wrong. There's only us who had big passion in Rp1,- bread!! LOL

It's Fritz who was eagerly eating his pizza bread. He's trying to finish it though it's a bit spicy.....:D

Fun

This weekend, we didn't get back to our apartment. We had something to do around that noon. During the evening, after we went home from church, we had an invitation from Om Arief to come to his house. He cooked Lontong Cap Gomeh. Wohoooo......

It's the first time for Fritz to go by motorcycle with us in the real way - usually only around the neighborhood. Using a cap and jacket, Fritz was sitting between us. He was so thrilled!!

Fritz was happy playing with Om Arief. He was totally happy as Om Arief could entertain him very well. Both were busy playing with cars. Fritz also said that he's going to show off his Buzz to Om Arief. OMG!! ^_^

Fun : Playing with Om Arief