Winter is snowflakes and hot chocolate around here. The real deal. And my children love it! To celebrate winter last month, we used Download N Go's Winter Wonders unit study. We painted with ice cubes. We created ice sculptures. We took daily nature walks and found lots of animal tracks (including squirrel, cat, dog, […]
Geography Fair Prep for Mexico
Elijah (who appears a tad bit loco in the photo above) chose Mexico for the Geography Fair this year and Simon tagged along. The very first project he completed was a salt dough map. Simon helped mix up the dough. I traced an outline of Mexico on to the cardboard. Elijah took over after that. Elijah used […]
A Week With Star-Striker
Meet Star-Striker–the inspiration for this week’s delight-directed study. Jason found it, the boys named it, and I grabbed Pet Bugs in a Jar to figure out how to house it. Elijah observed this guy for awhile and decided he wanted to learn more, so I printed off some of the Praying Mantis lapbook from HSS and […]
Goofy Gecko!
Another exciting week of learning with Download N Go. Elijah's choice this week was Goofy Gecko. Elijah is measuring his foot (yes, on my desk!) to see if his foot is longer than a Madagascar giant day gecko. Download N Go does a great job making things relevant for kids. Here are some pages from […]
Pizza Party!
Another week filled with Download N Go fun! After Chocolate Challenge, Elijah decided that we'll do all the food studies (so we'll eventually get to Hoppin' Popcorn and Crunchy Cookies too!), and this week it was time for a Pizza Party! We started this week off with breakfast pizza (something we've never tried before). Elijah […]
Story Study Lapbook
I borrowed this book from a friend. Elijah wanted to lapbook it, so we decided to create a simple story study to go with it. This lapbook includes: Bible Verses about Contentment accordion, A Circular Story wheel, Fairy Tale Detective mini-book, Contentment matchbook, I Am Thankful For list, flap book with questions, a book review […]
Chocolate Challenge!
Study chocolate? Oh YES! This was our second time enjoying this rich topic. We briefly touched on it when we studied the rain forest. This time was better because we devoted an entire week to chocolate. Yum. This is our third Download N Go experience, and I must confess– I heart Download N Go. Try it, […]