Learning At Home: Lifecycles

It had been eons since I collated our homelearning activities into a "Learning At Home" entry. I got lazy after doing a colossal collection of activities in my favourite themes "The Solar System" and "Earth". But I thought it might be easier for me now to share our previous homelearning theme of "Lifecycles" because all we did was a lapbook! As the girls grow older, they prefer writing and lapbooking activities rather than fun craft stuff. But I am still constantly on the lookout for crafts that they don't consider childish.

We had a great time learning about lifecycles of humans, mammals, insects, amphibians, reptiles, etc. As I had planned for this to be a lapbook homelearning theme, we just read lots of lifecycles books (until the girls were tired of them!) and compiled all their attained knowledge into a lapbook. We also did some very simple drawings and crafts which I also stuck onto their lapbooks. The covers of the lapbooks were designed entirely by them, and it was really fun to see how they conceptualised the covers.

We completed this in December last year.

Big Bee's "Lifecycles" Lapbook

We had a blast after reading about the human lifecycle in a book (and how babies are created!), and this is a accordion book detailing the human lifecyle. 

We created a flapbook of adult animals, flipped over the flap, and the babies' animal names were written.

The "lifecycle" of a tree through the seasons :) Or should it be the lifecycle of seasons?

Little Bee's "Lifecycles" Lapbook

She wrote down all the names of the animals featured in her lapbook

Oops, realised the first page of her lapbook looks a wee bit empty!

Baby animals and their mummies. She wrote down the names of baby animals from memory, after we ran through a list of baby animals and their mummies. 

3 stages of a snake's lifecycle

Turn the flap over to match the correct Chinese words to the right stage!

Fun human lifecycle accordion book. Little Bee loves the wedding segment of the cycle..!

Lifecycle of a dragonfly (top) and lifecycle of a butterfly using pasta bits (bottom)

Another lifecycle of a butterfly and lifecycle of a shark! 

Lifecycle of an apple tree