Apple-Themed Activities for Kids

It’s apple season and we’ve put together an educational workbook filled with apple-themed activities! If your kids love apples, they will love these fun activities!

Apple-themed workbook available for download on aerilynbooks.com

The 20 page workbook includes an Apple Investigation activity, where your child will be able to use their senses to explore their own apple (with your help, of course!). They will record their findings on the Apple Investigation sheet – size, color, buoyancy, taste – they will examine their apple from the inside out!

Other activities include labeling the parts of an apple, counting seeds, math, reading and writing practice, shape-tracing, puzzles, and more. Designed with your little bilingual learner in mind, these materials support education in both English and Korean languages, but can be enjoyed by our monolingual friends, as well.

You can purchase the Apple Orchard Workbook on AerilynBooks.com

For more apple fun, check out our Apple Mandu recipe – it’s a Korean twist on apple dumplings we think you will love!

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Let’s Learn About Shapes!

Bilingual Resources for Korean-Learners

Learning about shapes is critical for children and helps them to identify and categorize visual information, adds descriptive words to their vocabulary, and expands to skills in reading, math, and science. Shapes communicate visual messages throughout our real-world environment and serve as important building blocks in our children’s cognitive development.

Shapes | 모양 , the latest in our Bilingual Learning series, is now available for purchase.

The latest book in our Bilingual Learning series, Shapes | 모양, is now available for purchase in our online store and other select retailers! The board book is sized perfectly for little hands, durable enough for repeated handling, and teaches your child basic shapes in both English and Korean languages. Each shape is vibrantly illustrated in mesmerizing patterns and Hangul is accompanied by transliterations for help with pronunciation.

Free downloadable worksheets are available for additional practice.

We’ve also added some new worksheets, free to download, which can be paired with our book for additional practice perfect for preschool-aged kids! Your little ones will have the opportunity to strengthen their pincer grip, trace shapes, practice writing, create patterns, and more for a well-rounded educational approach.

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Social Emotional Education for Kids

Emotions are high as we continue to practice social distancing and follow stay-at-home orders, in our best efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19. Many of us are experiencing feelings of anxiety, helplessness, frustration, and worry – all as a natural response to the stress involved in our current global circumstances. All these emotions can be difficult to navigate, and especially so for children who are looking to us adults for comfort and security while they continue learning from home and are missing their friends and extended family members. It can be difficult to manage such big emotions!

It got me really thinking about some effective practices for managing stress and the negative emotions that often come with it. I wanted to have some activities ready for a moment when any one of my children might need some extra comfort or help with addressing their fears or worries. Dealing with depression myself, I know the importance of being able to talk about my struggles with someone I trust and to be able to level my emotions so I can more easily manage them. I wanted to be able to use some of these techniques in a child-friendly way while also integrating some bilingual education and simple facial recognition activities.

Sample pages from Emotions Workbook

I created a 20 page workbook that’s all about emotions! I’ve included some of the most common emotions we experience from day-to-day, and created some activities for recognizing, discussing, and managing these emotions in healthy ways. Included are social emotional activity ideas, coloring pages, reading and writing practice, drawing activities, illustrative journal pages, and, of course, bilingual vocabulary practice. You’ll have the opportunity to open up to each other and address the big emotions your children (and you!) may be experiencing – and set in place great emotional health practices for years to come!

You can find the downloadable workbook here in our online store. The material supports bilingual education in English and Korean languages, but can be completed and enjoyed by our monolingual friends, as well!

Here’s to maintaining our mental (and physical) health! Stay safe, everyone!

Teach Your Child Life Science at Home

Being home from work and school is an important public safety measure during our current pandemic, but it can be rough – for all of us. Kids and adults alike are trying their best to transition from their usual school and work environments to working remotely, from the comfort of their homes… where their TV and all their favorite snacks are… where the couch is comfortable and Lego sets beg to be played with. It can be a real struggle to focus!

We’ve been trying to keep our kids on track with their virtual classrooms, while also entertaining them in quiet times between classwork. The balancing act between parent, employee, home-school teacher, and chef is leaving most of us feeling… well, unbalanced. Fortunately, I’ve found some activities that have successfully entertained (and educated) my younger kids – and it isn’t over in a mere five minutes!

Every Spring, we tend to our vegetable garden. The kids love to help me clean out old dead plants, turn the soil, look for worms – all of it. But this year, our weather hasn’t exactly been cooperative. It’s the middle of April and we still have snow – YIKES! We haven’t been able to shake off our desire to get planting, though, so we started some seeds indoors. This has been great for teaching our sons how plants grow, observing the parts of a plant, and using a small magnifying glass to take a close look at roots and germinating seeds. And it doesn’t stop there!

Sample sheets from How Plants Grow Workbook

I’ve put together a 20 page workbook to go along with this activity. The workbook includes coloring sheets, bilingual vocabulary practice, a Plant Growth Process wheel, cut-and-paste charts, matching games… enough to last a week or so. You’ll be able to teach your child about the parts of a plant, about the growth process, practice reading and writing, solve puzzles, and play games – all while watching it happen in front of them! It’s a hands-on learning experience that is sure to fill in some of the gaps of their remote learning!

You can find the downloadable workbook here in our online store. The material supports bilingual education in English and Korean languages, but can be completed and enjoyed by our monolingual friends, as well!

Stay safe and healthy, friends! We are in this together!

Valentine’s Day Worksheets

안녕하세요! With Valentine’s Day approaching, we wanted to create a few heart-themed worksheets that integrated some Korean-language learning. These worksheets are free to download and you can print as many times as you’d like!

Valentine’s Day Color-By-Number Worksheet

Kids have the opportunity to practice their vocabulary with color-by-number and counting activities that pair well with our Bilingual Learning books – PLUS they can print out and color their own Valentine’s to give to friends and family!

Head over to our online store to download our new Valentine’s Day worksheets – and any other worksheets you might like! We hope you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day!

Free Downloadable Worksheets

If you’re looking for worksheets and coloring sheets to boost your child’s Korean language education, you’ve come to the right place. We have several downloadable resources available in our online shopand they’re FREE!

Free Downloadable Worksheets in Store

Our worksheets pair well with our Bilingual Learning books and can be used to increase vocabulary retention in a classically fun way! The tactile experience of drawing and writing on paper offers many benefits for children’s development – including the Pincer Grip, which is a crucial fine motor skill. Educational apps can be great, but studies show that the growing use of tablets by young kids is interfering with the strengthening of their hand muscles, resulting in school aged kids unable to correctly hold a pencil and write legibly.

Whether you are teaching your child Korean at home or they attend a Korean language program at school, our worksheets are a great way to boost their language education while strengthening their fine motor skills. Simply add the worksheets to your cart while shopping and you will be sent a link to download the files. Once you have them, you have them forever – print as many as you’d like!