Apart from the above picture, this post has nothing to do with Halloween (despite the misleading title- sometimes I just can't resist a good rhyme). Instead, it's a quick picture update of our home-school adventures.
We love Five in a Row! To help keep track of the things we're learning and doing, we're using lapbooks. Lapbooks are just a fun way to organize, display, and review the things we've learned. We make a different lapbook for each book we read.
Our first week we read The Story About Ping, about a duck on the Yangtze River. That was before we started lapbooking. We did however, have fun examining what things sink vs. float. This was also the book that inspired Aubree's "China Hunt."
Our second book was Lentil, a story about a harmonica-playing boy growing up in a small town in Ohio. One day Aubree made a model of Lentil's town using her blocks (the "peek-a-blocks" on top of each "building" gave hints as to what each building represented. For example, the bell was on top of the Methodist Church, the apple on top of the school, the book was on top of the library, etc).
Our third book was Madeline. Learning about France was a lot of fun. We did some impressionist paintings and learned about symmetry. Aubree's favorite part of this was learning how to cut out symmetrical hearts by folding the paper in half. Our home was filled with hearts!
Our fourth book was The Rag Coat, about a poor girl living in coal country. Since I knew next to nothing about coal and coal production, it was a fascinating week. We watched some great online videos of how coal is mined and I felt claustrophobic just watching the miners descend deep underground! Aubree was more interested in the quilts.
Right now we're reading Who Owns the Sun?, which deals with issues of slavery. Admittedly, as the move has gotten closer and things have gotten busier, we haven't been as consistent about doing home school. I decided to stretch out each book to two weeks instead of one and that has helped a lot. Once we get settled in Washington, however, (and get well-acquainted with the library) we'll get back to the original one-book-per-week plan. Love it!
2 comments:
What a fun costume! That's one of the best I've seen lately, really..
I'm glad you're enjoying FIAR. I've enjoyed B4FIAR so far, but I'm mostly just using it as a book list.
Good luck with your move!
Good luck with your move. You can stay at our house if you need a stop in UT. Are you driving? What a fun way to approach learning with Aubree!
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