• May 11, 2008 - Colonial America Lapbook
• April 4, 2008 - Light and Color Lapbook
Sprite completed another lapbook today: Light and Color
(The whole set of photos can be seen HERE at Flickr. )
To the right is the living book title for this unit. It is part of our Noeo Physics 1 curriculum. I am so pleased with this choice of homeschool material! The schedule is very easy to follow. The books are good. The experiment kits contain all we need. It's really a "perfect" science curriculum..... at least for us.
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• April 2, 2008 - Homeschool Share's Annual Blast
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It's here!! The Blast is back!

Enter your ideas for unit studies and lapbooks for PRIZES and "fame" on HSS website. (Click the graphic for more information.) |
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• March 18, 2008 - Explorers Lapbook
Today was a fun day -- we got to assemble a lapbook. That's always a rewarding thing for Sprite to see several weeks of work come together in a completed project.

Click on the photo to go to the set at Flickr.
We've been slowly making minibooks and maps for about five weeks as various explorers made an appearance in our history curriculum.
We used an assortment of pre-prepared materials:
- Homeschool in the Woods Time Travelers New World Explorer
This is an amazing resource! I highly recommend these CD unit studies!
- Scholastic Interactive 3-D maps: American History (part of WP AS1)
- Scholastic Lift the Flap Timelines: American History (part of WP AS1)
- Hold That Thought Notebooking CD
- Edupress Color and Learn Inca, Aztec, and Maya
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• March 13, 2008 - Lapbook Lessons
If you're looking for more lapbooking resources, try the Lapbook Lessons social network. It runs on the Ning network just like the Homeschool Lounge. So if you're already at the Lounge, it's easy to join Lapbook lessons with the same avatar and carry over some of the same friends.
I just posted on my Lapbook Lessons page about my trusty swinging arm stapler.
It's a really helpful tool for making minibooks. Now, if you go over and join just to read about a stapler, you can be sure that you've been bitten by the lapbooking bug!
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• November 2, 2007 - Thanksgiving Lapbook
• October 18, 2007 - Orchestra Lapbook
Although this lapbook is still in progress, I'm posting our pictures and links anyway. We're doing a quick overview of music history by studying one composer each week. We still have a few more composer mini-books to add.
It's far too fast for a CM styled composer study. But it's a great introduction that this musially illiterate mom really needs for planning our indepth composer studies for the next two years.
I plan to use the Opal Wheeler biographies of famous composers along with recordings of their music. AND....I'm so thrilled! I just landed a complete, used Beautiful Feet History of Classical Music unit study for half price! I'll just pick and choose from it as we do a CM styled composer study. (My favorite used book sources are Vegsource and Homeschool Classifieds. )
(Why am I saying "next year?" We are taking a visit to USA soon. I will bring back many homeschool resources for the next two years! We'll start using this new curriculum in January. I am so excited! New books!)
Clicking the pictures will take you to the Flickr photo set.
I've accumulated many links and online resources at this new Squidoo lens: Classical Music Unit Study or Lapbook.
Below I've listed what we actually used for our study of the instrument families of the orchestra.
Classics for Kids -- listen online
Young Person's Guide to Orchestra
Part 1 and 2
Peter and the Wolf
listen online for free if you don't have the CD
PDF -- Peter and Wolf instruments printable from Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Kiddie Records
Rusty in Orchestraville -- listen online or download MP3 files
2005 March/ Week 10
Montessori Music
Printable cards of instruments and composers
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
instruments of orchestra with sound files; orchestra seating charts for Baroque, Classical and Modern
also from Dallas Symphony Orchestra -- Lesson plans
Brass Instruments Uncoiled Handout -- made into a layered book
Homeschool Helper Online
Orchestra lapbook templates
Instrument Storage Room at NY Philharmonic
fun interactive program great for even smallest children
Instruments of the Orchestra
listen and then match sounds to instruments
Musical Clip art sheets
Discovery School Music Clip art images
Of course there are many more things I found but didn't actually use. The Music Unit Study page has more details.
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• October 16, 2007 - Rainforest Lapbook
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