After a month long break due to wonderful weather, Elijah jumped back in with a Fairytale/Folktale unit. I needed something easy, so I used Evan Moor’s Literature Pockets- Fairytales & Folktales (grades 2-3). I have never been big on assembling the pockets their way. Usually we use a lapbook or notebook. This time, however, I […]
Mailing May Lap ~N~ Note
We finished our study of Mailing May yesterday. We used the lessons from FIAR Volume IV. For Eiljah’s notebook, he used the FIAR Fold N Learn, resources from Homeschool Share, and a train project pack from HOAC (a super member freebie). Topics of study included trains, the post office/mail, the 1900s (then/now), vocabulary, facial expressions […]
Beaver Lapbook
We started a pond study. It was interrupted with a study of Mailing May (which we finished today…pictures coming soon). Elijah told me he didn’t want to continue with the pond study, so we just put everything (mostly beaver stuff) in a simple lapbook. I didn’t make the templates this time; they are from Hands […]
Dog Family Lapbook
While studying desert, Elijah decided he really wanted to start his own Dog Family Lapbook (inspired by coyote). He wants to include various foxes, wolves, and breeds of dogs. I did not want to design a Dog Family Lapbook. I decided I would just give him the tools he needed to do it himself. I […]
Desert Finale
Well, we didn’t really do anything for our finale, though I suppose we should! Maybe Jason will take us to a Mexican Restaurant tonight to celebrate! My other posts on deserts are here- Week 1- Roxaboxen Notebook Pages Week 1- Roxaboxen Mini-books (details) Crystal Mining and Desert Glass Candy (from Roxaboxen) Week 2- Desert Animals Sunset […]
Desert Animals Lapbook in our Notebook
We started our desert studies wth a one week study with Roxaboxen (from Five in a Row Volume IV). Last week we took some time to learn more about desert animals (North American). Here is the cover page Elijah made. I threw everything he might possibly want in one of his workboxes and let him go. […]
Money Lapbook
This was something Elijah asked for last fall, and we put it together then. It is very simple, but one of his favorite lapbooks to pull out and play with; he LOVES to set up candy shop and have me visit his store! This is a part-whole circle set similar to what is used in […]
Roxaboxen Day 4- Notebook Complete!
Pages 1-2 Design Roxaboxen (from FIAR Fold N Learn) Lizard Poem (from a children’s poetry book we have) and Lizard drawing (drawing from Draw Write Now) Pages 3-4 Mini books from Day 3 Pages 5-6 Page 5 mini books were done on Tuesday Page 6 mini books were done today Page 5 close-up Jewel Shutter from […]
Roxaboxen Day 3
Today we had a geography lesson (deserts and the Southwest U.S.) and a social studies lesson about good leaders/followers (using Moses and the Israelites as examples). We also talked about our Roxaboxen town from Monday and laws (including God’s Law). I purchased the FIAR Roxaboxen Fold N Learn, and we used various pieces from that […]
Rainforest
Well, once again, plans thwarted by real life. I spent two weeks (about 8 hours/day) working on the house to get some ongoing (think seven years) projects we’ve had undone DONE. School got pushed to the side during these two weeks which completely interrupted our rain forest study. We had two weeks in, then two […]
Africa Finished!
Well, I intended to post three parts…one for each week. But…week two we were both sick and didn’t get much done other than math and reading books! So, here is Elijah’s finished project. Some of the pictures have been seen before, but I like having them all in one spot! The final picture (the Masai writing) […]
Next Stop: Africa
Here is what Elijah started today! Resources we plan on using Evan Moor Theme Pockets – September (has a pocket devoted to Africa; all the above items are from this) Masai and I Unit Study My Rows and Piles of Coins Unit Study Cheetah Lapbook Zebra Lapbook Ostrich Lapbook Draw Write Now I found some fun […]
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lapbook
Yesterday Elijah saw his Alice in Wonderland stickers and announced that he really wanted to do an Alice in Wonderland Lapbook (we read the book a few months ago). I gave him my reference lapbook and told him to tell me what he wanted. He decided on a few things, and we went to work. […]
Five True Dog Stories Lapbook
We used a binder for this one. This is a lapbook we did awhile back when Elijah chose this title for a book club (co-op) selection. DOX GRIP WOLF BARRY BALTO This free lapbook is found at Homeschool Share.
My Father’s Dragon Lapbook
A perfect book for my son; it’s about a boy who ventures into a dangerous jungle filled with wild animals to rescue a dragon! First view of lapbook open. Two folders glued side by side. The first folder (on the left) has another folder glued in the middle that opens up. First Folder We didn’t […]
Australia Lapbook
Elijah has been a diligent worker the past two weeks, and I am super-duper proud (and a wee bit worn out). Big smile! Elijah chose the notebook size; I told him the larger the notebook, the harder he would have to work. He went for the ginormous one! I get these spiral bound books from […]
Two Weeks with Miss Hickory
We tried our first ever chapter book unit study using Miss Hickory as our base. We read two chapters each day and really just focused on the woodland animals in the story. I printed off lots of things that we didn’t use, but that’s okay (I keep telling myself this at least). It’s better to […]
Leah’s Pony Lapbook/Notebook
What a great story. What a great, great story. I don’t care how old you are or whether or not you homeschool, you need to go to the library and check out Leah’s Pony and read it. It’s just fabulous! Dust Bowl Map Right: Great Depression/Dust Bowl Shutterbook Left: Character Studies- Kindness Split Matchbook, Sacrifice […]
Happy Fall Y’all! ;)
This week we did a unit study with the book, When the Frost is on the Punkin. We also read parts of Crinkleroot’s Nature Almanac (Arnosky), Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf (Ehlert), Leaf Man (Ehlert), and Why Do Leaves Change Color? (Maestro). We didn’t do a lapbook; we stuffed everything in the pockets of a folder […]
Weather Words Lapbook
This week Elijah got to choose what we learned about. His choice? Weather! For the extention, we cut the right side off a file folder and paste the entire thing in to the lapbook. It opens on the right side. The printables are found here. Some of the answers Elijah wrote in, others he dictated […]