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.
Hey, I’m reading it! 🙂 Love the overlapping candy cane art! I might have my older kids do that!
I love reading your blog too! It is so inspiring!
love this story and we did the lapbook last year. May have to make this snowball cookies!
I’m reading it!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Isn’t it such a blessing to know people are enjoying the unit studies we put together?!!? 🙂 Love ya friend and am so glad ya’ll have a good week with candy canes!! Wish we could school together, wouldn’t that be a BLAST?!!?