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Olympics & China Unit Study

I am in the middle of planning a super fun unit on the olympics and China. There are so many great ideas out there! So, I thought I would start compiling them here on the blog for anyone interested. First of all, there is a fabulous lapbook for the summer olympics 2008 found on homeschool share, where else?!?! Olympics Lapbook and Unit In addition to learning about the Olymipcs we are going to spend some time learning about China. Here are some ideas I will be using for this. ... Read More about Olympics & China Unit Study

Papa Piccolo

Five in a Row

Papa Piccolo, our FIAR title of the week, is a sweet story about a papa cat named Piccolo. The story takes place in Italy and has fabulous illustrations showing the different characteristics of Venice. Piccolo finds himself being followed by 2 little orphan kittens and in the end, he decides to “adopt” them as his own. This is such a sweet story, especially for my cat loving children! And what perfect timing that we have “adopted” a new, orphaned kitten just last week! We actually started ... Read More about Papa Piccolo

Turtle Lapbook

Lapbooks· Nature Study· Unit Studies

I am finally getting pictures of our turtle lapbooks on the blog! Remember the turtle unit we did a few weeks ago? Well, this is the lapbook that went along with that unit. (if you are wanting to learn about turtles, keep a watch on HSS for when all the new units and lapbooks come out!) I also hope to get a few pictures of the real turtles we see on our nature walks inside the lapbooks, I need to remember to get them printed off.The front of the lapbooks:The turtle vocabulary words:The inside ... Read More about Turtle Lapbook

Nature walks

Charlotte Mason· Nature Study

I have posted before about the wildlife observatory spot that is just down the street from us. Well, we have been visiting our spot more and more frequently. Usually at least 1-2 times a week; daddy has even been getting in on the fun! Everytime we go we look for our regular friends: the turtles. Sometimes we see them out sunning, sometimes not. One time daddy walked down with the girls and they said they counted 14 turtles! Sometimes when we go we only see 1 or 2. This past time we went ... Read More about Nature walks

Garden grow!

Nature Study

Here are the latest pictures of our sunflower garden! These things are getting pretty big! I am wondering…if anyone knows, when do the flowers bloom? The plants are so tall and I keep hoping the flowers will start popping out, none of them have yet. Here is the entire rectangular sunflower garden/fort: Here is Emily standing next to the tallest sunflower plant thus far: And here is a recent picture of our veggie garden. We actually have a tiny tomato growing! Yay! ... Read More about Garden grow!