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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…
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July 4th Lapbook

Holidays· Lapbooks· Unit Studies

This week we have been working on a lapbook for July 4th. We have read a few patriotic books about our country, reviewed the pledge of allegience, learned about what it means to vote, learned how old you have to be to vote and when each of them will be old enough to vote, we discussed the 2 presidential candidates…
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Papa Piccolo Lapbook

Five in a Row· Lapbooks

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…
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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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