Learning At Home

When the Bees were younger, I enjoyed theme-based home learning with them on a regular basis. Unfortunately, with both the girls entering primary school, and with increasing school load, the frequency of home learning had reduced drastically. We still indulged in fun, non-academic activities like board games, painting, lapbooking, music and books appreciation, but in general, it is a lot harder to focus on theme-based home learning.

I based on a lot of our home learning activities on the multiple intelligences theory, as I believe that every child has different strengths, and that there is no one singular intelligence that a child can embrace and therefore claim that he or she is successful academically. More fundamentally, I strongly believe that every human being should nurture a holistic range of intelligences, and thereby have a broader, inter-disciplinary base of knowledge, versus a narrow, vertical discipline where issues and theories are only explored in a vacuum.

As I am also a working mother who (used to) travel for work frequently, I used to abide by a certain set of rules with regards to time management to conduct home learning activities. You can read about how it is entirely possible for busy working mothers to indulge in home learning here. Ironically, despite the fact that I travel much lesser these days, it is the heavy school load of the Singapore education system that is taking time away from the Bees to learn more about things outside of their academic curricula!

I had compiled a list of theme-based home learning activities that we had done through the years, starting from the most recent activities completed this year. Enjoy these activities!

All About Singapore

My Amazing Body

Lifecycles

Farm

Forest Animals

Japan

Plants

Fish

Weather

All About Me

Transportation

Safari

The Big Blue Sea

Green For Nature

Animals

Red

Solar System
Mini fact book
Sketching our solar system
Rocket craft
Singing about our planets

You can also take a look at other learning activities that we indulged in here!