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Olympics & China Unit Study

Unit Studies

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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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