Life Cycles

 

Remember the Learning Center I made for Elijah a while back? I decided to keep that one as our morning center so I made a new one that I change out for different units.

On this day the Learning Center was Life Cycles.

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Items are either velcroed on or in pocket charts. It’s very interactive. Elijah can move things around as he is learning.

Above Elijah labeled the stages of a butterfly and below he is labeling the stages of a frog.

Elijah likes the interactive board and I have many many units planned to use with the board with so check back to see what we use it for next.

We also made a Life Cycle lapbook.

 

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Who says school work has to be boring? Elijah and I just finished up a fun lapbook based on the book Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

I printed out the lapbook components from Homeschool Share. This is a simple lapbook, but it was fun and silly…. just what we needed.

 

Here Elijah is reading back over the book and adding answers to the booklets in his lapbook.

 

 

We decorated the outside of the lapbook. Does it look like spaghetti and meatballs?

I pulled out our weather board for Elijah to play meteorologist.

Elijah gave us a silly weather report. It’s raining pigs in Texas!

To finish up the unit we watched Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs on Netflix.

 

You can find this unit and a lot more at Homeschool Share .

Veteran’s Day: A Patriotic Look

Elijah loves learning about wars, what airplanes were flew and what weapons they used. This year for Veteran’s Day I wanted him to really understand that many men and women have lost their lives fighting for our country.

To begin our Veteran’s Day study we visited the traveling memorial wall. WOW, just that little piece of traveling wall is powerful, I bet it is awesome to visit the real thing.

   

 

 

That week we read some books about Veteran’s Day and made a lapbook. It was a simple lapbook, but one of the most important lapbooks I think we have ever made.

 

In the picture below you can see we did a sample rubbing of the wall for Elijah’s lapbook.

 

 

We finished up our unit with a trip to the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum.

 

The museum has a lot of weapons, uniforms and pictures displayed.

Elijah liked this case that had a ton of arm vehicle models.

 

The museum had been remodeled since our last visit and it really looked nice. There is so much to see. I think I was on information overload.

The next two pictures are maps showing where people live who have visited our museum. That alone was amazing to look at.

 

I’m so glad we took the time to study about Veteran’s Day. I’m not sure we (we; not just our family, but also our nation) appreciate our military men and women enough. Thank you to all our branches; Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard.

Ben Franklin

There is so much to learn about Ben Franklin, he was truly a remarkable man. He surely deserves to be on our one hundred dollar bill.

• Day 1: Who Was Ben Franklin?
• Day 2: People and Places in Ben Franklin’s Life
• Day 3: The Accomplishments of Ben Franklin
• Day 4: Lessons to Learn From Ben Franklin
• Day 5: Remembering Ben Franklin

Elijah just finished the Download N Go Ben Franklin unit created by Amanda Bennett. We found this unti to be FULL of information. So much information we could have spent 2 weeks or more on this unit.




We learned a ton of interesting facts about B. Franklin. So much that we ended up with a lapbook full of booklets and folds. We used two large file folders to make this lapbook.

 
You can see I added the yellow and orange card stock pages to make extensions just so we could get everything in the lapbook.
If you are not into lapbooks the booklets could be used in notebooks.
The Download N Go units do include a nice list of library books, but if you are not able to get to a library don’t let that stop you from trying a unit. I have not gotten any library books for any of the DNG units we have done and that has NOT stopped us from learning and enjoying the units. The units are full of SAFE links with tons of info you can read about Franklin on the internet.

I really appreciate the vocabulary words found in each Download N Go unit. Each unit also includes spelling words.

To finish up our unit Elijah built different electronic experiments with his Snap Circuits set.


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