Here is a slideshow of Elijah’s Easter lapbook (in a notebook). We spent about three weeks learning about the life of Christ with Amanda Bennett’s Easter Unit Study and the free corresponding lapbook at Homeschool Share. Elijah used a spiral bound Bare Book for this project. Pages 18-22 (not pictured) are vocabulary pages.
What’s Inside?
During our Madeline study, we started a huge human body project using My Body by Teacher Created Resources. This is a super easy way to teach your student about what’s under the skin he’s in. You trace your student’s body on a large piece paper and cut it out. Then you print a copy […]
Madeline ~ FIAR Style
We’ve used Five in a Row from the beginning of our homeschooling journey. We started with Before Five in a Row when Elijah was 2 (almost 3). We’ve been through most of Volumes I-III and part of Volume IV. This is our fifth year with our FIAR based homeschooling co-op, and we are back […]
China Unit & Notebook
We started our study with The Story About Ping. We added in a Learn About China Kit, a co-op field trip to P.F. Chang’s, and bits & pieces from the Ancient Civilizations History Pocket. We ended up with a boy who couldn’t wait to learn about China each day! Book List The Story About Ping […]
Flight Finally Finished!
Obviously, I am ridiculously behind in blog posts, so I am posting LOTS to get caught up. I should’ve posted these pictures of Elijah’s Flight Journal three weeks ago, but better late than never. Before I post pictures, I am going to try to answer questions you might have. 1. What did we […]
Fly In ~ Cruise In (2009)
They ate pancakes, pancakes (and more pancakes…and sausage). They saw planes, planes, and more planes. And some helicopters, too. And even a B-17 bomber. It was a great plane-watching day for the Brainerd boys!
Wilbur Wright Birthplace Field Trip
"I can remember when Wilbur and I could hardly wait for morning to come to get at something that interested us. That’s happiness!" –Orville Wright I just love that quote (I saw it while on the field trip), so I had to post it! I wonder how many of our children have something they can’t […]
The Glorious Flight
While working through the Flight Unit Study, we decided to work in a Five in a Row unit,The Glorious Flight, focusing on Louis Bleriot. Field Trip! We visited a small local airport with our co-op friends. The pilot did a great job with the kids and answered all of our questions about his job and his […]
Flying High!
Last week we started Amanda Bennett’s History of Flight unit study. One of the weblinks in the study shows you how to make a large hot air balloon out of tissue paper. I decided that we’d give it a whirl because I knew both boys would go crazy over it! Just so you know, this is […]
Ancient Egypt Unit Study
Elijah is choosing many of his unit study topics this year, and he wanted to start 2nd grade with an Ancient Egypt unit study. As we work toward a delight directed philosophy of education, I am amazed. I provide the resources, and Elijah is absorbing the information. He taught himself about Ancient Egypt. He now […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pumpkins Field Trip
A pumpkin event that appealed to the senses! We touched pumpkins, tasted pumpkins & seeds (both raw and cooked), looked at the differences between vine fruits (pumpkins, gourds, and squash), and picked a pumpkin. Elijah said this was his "best field trip ever!" Gather ’round to learn about pumpkins! Lifecycle Craft From seed to leaf to […]
Co-op Auction for Leah’s Pony
Last week we read Leah’s Pony and learned about plants, The Great Depression, The Dust Bowl, kindness, sacrifice, grasshoppers, and more! We had a great start to our week at co-op! After the story reading, we had an auction with a real auctioneer. Each child brought something to auction off and each child won an […]
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 […]
Apple Copywork
I just love these pictures of Elijah working so hard! I printed up pages for him that have the starting dots included. He loved this. It makes life so much easier for him. I plan to keep on doing it all year long! 🙂 Here is the part of a poem he copied: "When autumn […]
A Good Apple and a Bad Apple
Really, this is one of those end-of-weeks where I’m going, "WHEW!" I feel like we’ve covered a lot of ground in this notebook (we hole punched cardstock and put it in a binder instead of using the tradtional file folder). This kid keeps me hoppin’, that’s for sure. He is SUPER proud of this notebook […]
Legend of Lightning Larry
Calling all you cowboys and cowgirls! Who says school can’t be fun?! 🙂 We started our week off at co-op with a Legend of Lightning Larry play and some lemonade tasting! Here is our finished lapbook: This is a double lapbook (two file folders glued together). This is the first folder. Inside the Books I […]