We had a rich learning experience last week with The Legend of the Candy Cane unit study from Homeschool Share.
Elijah's overlapping candy cane art ~
Both boys helped bake these Candy Cane Snowballs (sweet and yum).
Here are some pages from Elijah's notebook. Elijah learned about alliteration, synonyms, legends, idioms, and he searched a concordance for verses on shepherds and sheep. He also did some map work (Germany and Ohio), compared and contrasted a shepherd with the Good Shepherd, and started memorizing Psalm 23.
Simon made a little lapbook ~
He worked hard all week!
Both boys had fun playing with the Candy Shop candy cards.
They also played the knock-out game together (Simon wins these games . . . every time!)
They both enjoyed making candy cane ornaments from beads and pipe cleaners. These will be a reminder to us of the memories we made this week and the symbolism of this peppermint treat.
I added a few printable pages to this study. I guess this counts as a Printable Power post {no one's reading my blog right now anyway holiday edition}.
You can click on the image to download the two extra pages. These go with The Candymaker's Gift and were made especially for Elijah's notebook; one page is to record all the symbolism of the candy cane, and the other page is to compare and contrast the two stories.
I’m just now getting around to reading, but I love catching up! I’m always inspired by what your older boys do. My oldest doesn’t turn three for another week, so we have many years of learning to follow in your footsteps 🙂
I’m reading too!! It looks like you guys had a great time!!
Love this! I’m bookmarking it for next year. Your lapbooks always look so nice and neat. We love lapbooks and unit studies, so Homeschool Share has been a blessing for us! Thank you for sharing!