Remember our page-a -day art calendar? We are finally on the flip side of the pages now that half of the year is gone. Yesterday we came upon a Greek amphora in the calendar. What a great time to do some review! This year our history focus is ancient civilizations, so we’ll be covering Ancient […]
World War 1 Notebook or Lapbook
Another period of history is complete; this time it’s World War 1. We used the Eyewitness WW1 book as our main resource, and I pulled a few chapters from True Stories of the First World War. The stories were not as good as I’d hoped. They had more of a textbook style than narrative style. […]
Parables of Jesus Notebooking
For Bible study Sprite has recently been using Kay Arthur’s Discover 4 Yourself Inductive Bible Studies. But being the huge lover of variety that I am, we did something different over the last few weeks — a quick study of the parables. I chose seven parables and used reproducibles from these two resources: The Big […]
Moving West History Pockets
Evan Moor’s History Pockets: Moving West, Grades 4-6 is part of our Winter Promise (American Story 2) curriculum. History Pockets work well for people like us who enjoy paper crafts and lapbooking. Here is the book and our pocket. I mostly made it part of Sprite’s “On My Own” work. Each week I give her […]
Independent Lapbook — Eclipse
When we started using lapbooks in Kindergarten, I didn’t know if we’d continue using them throughout the years or if lapbooking would taper off. At one point I thought we’d transition solely to notebooking. But Sprite still enjoys making minibooks, so we haven’t given up lapbooks altogether. Sometimes we mix up lapbooking and notebooking, too. […]
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