Last week our FIAR title was Papa Piccolo. We really enjoyed this story! Here are the ideas we used for this book. And here are the pictures of our lapbook that we did. Most of our lapbook came from homeschool share. The covers of their lapbooks: The inside lefthand side: what cats eat, cats classification, drawing a cat and characteristics of kittens. This is the right hand side of the inside: flag of Italy, vocabulary words, color wheel The back side, where Italy is on the map. Also ... Read More about Papa Piccolo Lapbook
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
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
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
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
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