We have added in the Kumon books recently and this has been a lot of fun.  We are also doing Christmas projects and the girls are loving this hands-on sort of learning.

So I have been researching ideas for more hands-on learning in our homeschool.  First, we are adding in Singapore Earlybird Science and will do bunny trail activities to go along with the ideas introduced in the books.

Next,  we are going to do some of the activities listed in the Activity Guide for Story of the World.  There are a lot of great ideas in there and I don't know why we haven't been doing these projects.

Then we are looking at getting History Pockets Plymoth Colony to go along with our reading of Story of the Pilgrims.  We are also looking at Literature Pockets Nursery Rhymes and the Theme Pockets for the months of the year.  These look like they would be fun and interesting.

The months of the year Theme Pockets have 3 themes for each month so you make 3 pocket books.  So you could really use them over the course of 3 years.  Doing holidays one year, the next you do people and animals, and the third year do the extra themes.

Just thinking about all this.  Maybe down the road we will get into lapbooking but I think we are a ways away yet.  Although I did check a book out from the library on making pop-ups.  Very neat!

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Posted by eclecticeducation

This sound really great! Thanks for sharing. We have the Story of the World Activity Guide. It is awesome! I also have several of the Theme Pockets which I also like a whole lot. The same publisher Evan-Moor also makes some books called How to Make Books with Children Series which are really good. We have started notebooking this year and plan to do our first lapbook real soon. I don't know much about Singapore Science so I guess I should check it out. Good luck.

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