Some of these pictures are a bit blurry (still not sure about my camera). Elijah made the front cover on Jan Brett’s website and Jason sized it and printed it for us. Book as first opened. Candy house on the left shown open below: Elijah wanted to put a gingerbread "baby" in his house instead […]
Our Lammy!
Here is Elijah working on our Lamington. Here he is ready for tea-time (Yes! He is STILL in his pajamas!) The purpose of tea-time is to work on manners…do you think I’m succeeding? Oh, and if you are wondering what a Lamington is, it’s an Australian treat! Here is an authentic recipe (ours is OH-so-fake […]
Wombat Stew Lapbook
Front Cover (Elijah thinks wombats are so cute; he wants to go to Australia to get one.) Inside of the book. At the top center are two layer books. One is about wombats and the other is about the platypus. The wombat in the center is an Enchanted Learning Print-out (polk-a-dots by Elijah). Who Am I? Game […]
Making Wombat Stew!
Another fun book this week! (You’ve got me figured out…I only homeschool because it is a BLAST!) 🙂 Okay, so we’ve read Wombat Stew about a hundred bazillion times. Elijah loves it. We got together with a friend at the beginning of the week to make WOMBAT STEW! 🙂 Ingredients: water = cool whip colored […]
Bald Eagle Lapbook
Elijah wanted to learn more about eagles, and we had a gap in our schedule this week, so we went for it! I almost couldn’t keep up with him; he absolutely loved learning about these fascinating birds! Here is our lapbook FRONT COVER Book Opened Right Side Where Can I Find Bald Eagles (open) New […]
Billy and Blaze Lapbook
Front Cover Open Book Kentucky Books Open Memory Verse Book Open Vocabulary Cards Extension Lifted A page from Animals in the Story Our First Flag Book– Horse Breeds Horse Breeds Open The back of each flag has information about the breed. Back of Lapbook
Finishing up with Berlioz the Bear
My little music-loving boy has adored this book. We spent the week learning about a variety of things: Germany, musical notes, composers (especially Vivaldi and Tchaikovsky), pride, and musical instruments (brass, strings, and woodwinds). We reviewed onomatopoeia, discussed real vs. imaginary (parts of the story), and learned new vocabulary words. Elijah also used the animal […]
*~*RODEO*~*
We had a rootin’ tootin’ time at the rodeo Saturday night. Our little cowpoke participated in the stick horse race!
Armadillo Rodeo Notebook
We had a ton of WILD WILD WEST fun with this one! 🙂 We didn’t get science done on the day I had planned, so Jason helped out one (what a great dad!) night by reading a book about armadillos to Elijah; he also showed Elijah some video footage (online) about armadillos. When he was done, […]
Thundercake
We learned about ordinal numbers story sequence Michigan place setting (how to set the table) the water cycle onomatopoeia (Elijah’s favorite new word!) repeating patterns and random placement We hope to make a Thundercake tomorrow night, but we may just wait until we have some garden tomatoes. Elijah got a big, fat piece of Thundercake […]
A House for Hermit Crab Lapbook
We are loving unit studies and lapbooks! Our A House for Hermit Crab study included: Lapbook Ocean Diorama Popsicle Stick Puppets (made with storybook patterns) Great Books We learned about creatures living in the ocean, animal homes, shells, the months of the year, and different kinds of houses. We also made vocabulary cards, reviewed the Bible […]
The Giant Jam Sandwich Lapbook
Well, we did it! What did we do? Just about anything and everything you can do when you read The Giant Jam Sandwich ! 🙂 We learned about rhyming words. Elijah made a pretend map for Itching Down (and we reviewed cardinal directions). Elijah wrote a great Problem-Solution story. He decided on BEES for […]