Learning Letter Sounds

One of the struggles of parents when dealing with early literacy for children is on how they can teach them of the letter sounds.  Of course, it’s easy to memorize and recite the alphabet, but what about the phonic sounds it creates?  In other teaching method, like Montessori, the focus is more on learning the letter sounds first rather than the name of the letter.  Letter sounds or phonics are the basic foundation of reading and with the child’s knowledge early on in life, they can easily learn how to read and decode letter sound combinations.

Now let us share to you one of the fun ways we teach our kids of the letter sounds, by matching it to their favourite animals!

Montessori-Inspired Activity: The Life of a Honey Bee

This is a guest post from a Filipino mom and  homeschooler The Pinay Homeschooler. Jae, the mother of Mavi and Xavi has been homeschooling her kids for 8 years. She’s based abroad and wanted to share the joy and benefits of early education and home school to us. Her activities involves Montessori-inspired activities and nature play for kids in the elementary, preschool and toddler years. Visit her facebook page The Pinay Homeschooler or her blog where she writes all their family adventures.

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The appearance of the honey bees in our front and backyard has led us to look into the lives of these beautiful creatures who are the main source of honey.  Vito is terrified of them but not Mavi.  We were out the other day catching a few of them, observing how they produce the buzzing sound and freed them up again.

Creepy Crawlers

We are happy to announce that the Safari Toob Insects and the 3 part cards are now available in our shop!

Flower Nomenclature Cards and Figures

Kids love flowers and that interest is basically the root of learning all about plants and trees!  Jumpstart your biology education for as early 2 years old with our lovely flower figures and its cards. 

The pack includes:

• Safari Toob Flowers (contains 8 flowers)
• Montessori 3 part cards literacy and early math activity
• How To card, a short tutorial on how to use the cards and extension activities

To order:

Contact: The Wise Owl

Phone:  +63 919 612 0628

Welcome!

Hello everyone!  Welcome to The Wise Owl official site.  We are a small business based on the Philippines which provides learning resources and Montessori-inspired materials to make for home school use. With the advent of home education and early learning, we wanted to make these materials accessible to our fellow Filipino parent so they can be their child’s educators as well.