RBE Lessons for Home – Lesson 9

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This series of lesson plans are intended to supplement and build upon the knowledge learned during TweedleWink classes. They can also be used as a homeschool curriculum. You can find links to the other lessons here:

• Right Brain Education: Supplementary Lessons for Home

Art: Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. 

Wikipedia

• Flashcards: Matisse – Paintings
• Video: Art with Mati and Dada – Henri Matisse

• Hands-On:
  • DIY Matisse Collage
  • Paper Plate Snail Craft

• Colouring: Matisse Colouring Page
• Books:
  • Matisse’s Garden
  • Henri’s Scissors
  • Matisse the King of Color
  • Blue and Other Colors: with Henri Matisse

Science: Crystal Structures

Crystals are solid objects with symmetrically arranged flat surfaces that meet in straight lines and sharp corners. Some examples of crystals include Diamonds, snowflakes, and rock salt.

Britannica Kids

• Website: Learning about Crystals for Kids
• Video: Crystallisation

• Video: Let’s Learn About Rocks and Minerals

• Apps:
  • Geology by KIDS DISCOVER
  • The Earth by Tinybop
  • Rocks and Minerals Book
• Hands-on:
  • Make your own crystals at Home
  • 4M Crystal Growing Experimental Kit
  • Science Mad: Crystal Growing Kit

Culture: Japan

Take out your world map and place a pin or sticker on Japan. Then hop on your magic carpet and take a ride to Japan!

People and Places

• Learn about Japan: Japan Facts for Kids
• Video: Japan in 90 seconds!

Language

• Simple Greetings

• How to Read and Write Hiragana

Food

Easy Japanese recipes for kids:

• Temaki Zushi
• Zaru Soba

Craft

Fun Japanese crafts for kids:

• Koi Water Colour Art
• Cherry Blossom Collage
• Miniature Zen Garden
• Kimono Art
• Japanese Carp Kite

Vocabulary: Cooking Tools, Fruit

Fruit

Flashcards: Fruits

Hands-on Activities:

• Visit the market and introduce the different varieties of fruit to your child.
• Purchase a variety of fruits and make a fruit salad or fruit kebabs. Show your child the fruit whole, peeled, and cut. Let your child smell the fruits, then taste them.

• Older kids can practice cutting fruit with a safety knife set. Younger kids can practice cutting toy fruits to develop motor skills.

• Make a delicious fruit smoothie:

Cooking Tools

Flashcards: Cooking Tools

Hands-on Activities:

• Take your child on a tour of your kitchen as introduce the different cooking tools you have.
• Have an active demonstration of how some tools are used. Encourage your child to try using them, perhaps while preparing a recipe. This lovely Apple Pie recipe from Sugar, Spice and Glitter will be a great way to introduce a whole host of cooking tools to your child.

• Match the cooking tool to the word card game – download the printable sheet.

Music: Tchaikovsky

• About Tchaikovsky

• Tchaikovsky Wordsearch
• Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake

• Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker
• The Nutcracker in 5 minutes:

• If you have a piano, learn to play Tchaikovsky with the Piano Maestro App:
  • Waltz of the Flowers (from The Nutcracker)
  • Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
  • Swan Lake
• More music from Tchaikovsky for listening:

Related:

• Right Brain Kids: Foundations of Genius
• Right Brain Kids: TweedleWink Program
• Right Brain Kids: Wink Program
• More TweedleWink Lessons for Home