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Our own Roxaboxen

For the last hour the kids have been working hard on creating their own little town in the playroom. They are all working together, working happily and using their imaginations! “School” doesn’t get much better than this! We went ahead and started Roxaboxen today, I just couldn’t wait til Monday! ... Read More about Our own Roxaboxen

Roxaboxen

Five in a Row

Our next FIAR title will be Roxaboxen. Have you read this wonderful book by Barbara Cooney? What a treasure! I’m so thankful that my attention was brought to this book hrough FIAR. What fun we will have with this one! We will be learning about the desert, desert animals, observing a cactus, making our own roxaboxen with rocks, twigs and other various things we can find…and much more! A few books we have to go along with Roxaboxen are: Other resources and ... Read More about Roxaboxen

Summer Olympics & China Notebook

Lapbooks· Unit Studies

We are nearing the end of our Olympic and China unit! So, today we spent some time putting all the pieces that we have done so far in our lapbook. Actually, this is not technically a “lapbook” but a notebook. I had a friend give me 2 empty never used scrapbooks with just 10 pages in them. They are 8.5×11, a size I would not use for scrapbooking, so I decided to use them for our Olympics unit! Perfect! HERE are all the details of our olympic unit if you haven’t seen them yet. We still have ... Read More about Summer Olympics & China Notebook

Last Week with Olympic Study

Unit Studies

This will be our last official week of our Olympics & China unit study! When the Olympics actually start on Aug. 8th, we will of course watch alot of the competitions! We will also track the medals that the USA wins on a graph for a math lesson! For this week, I needed a few more coloring pages. We also will paint or make the Chinese flag somehow this week. My girls ask for something to color with our unit just about everyday, and I’m out of Olympics “stuff” for them to do…so here are a ... Read More about Last Week with Olympic Study

Giant Pandas (China & Olympic study)

Unit Studies

This morning, though we are home from church due to sickness, we had the most exciting thing happen! We are continuing our learning about China and this week are learning about pandas. So, as we are surfing the channels, at noon Animal Planet starts a special on Giant Pandas! How great is that?!?! David is making fun of me for being so excited, but I just think it’s like a little present from God! This show was really neat because we had just read the book, Giant Pandas, by Gail Gibbons ... Read More about Giant Pandas (China & Olympic study)