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• May 11, 2008 - Colonial America Lapbook

We have spent over a month on what Winter Promise AS1 scheduled for just two weeks -- Colonial America. Here are some images of Sprite's completed lapbook. At the back, we added notebooking pages into the lapbook. So this is a what my blogging buddy Missy calls a "lap/note book thingy." She makes lapbooks like this -- a mixture of lapbooks and notebooks.

Click on it to visit the whole set and more details at Flickr.

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• April 4, 2008 - Light and Color Lapbook

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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

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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

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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

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If you're looking for Thanksgiving related printables for lapbooks, notebooking, or just to review this important holiday,
visit my brand new lens Thanksgiving Lapbook.

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• October 18, 2007 - Orchestra Lapbook

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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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This was a very fun study -- the rainforest!

Sprite designed this cover with the moving leaf! It was all her idea and design. This child is creative with a capital C! Please visit her blog. She's been posting some of her artwork. Her scarecrow and corn drawing is also posted at Barb's Heart of Harmony Sketch Tuesday. If you or your children would like to participate, just email Barb your pictures.

Our Sonlight Core 2 curriculum had a few days scheduled for a study of the rainforest, but I decided that this fascinating habitat needed far more time! So I held it back to the end of the school year. Once we had done all our other curriculum, this made a nice extra unit study to fill in the gap as we wait for new material. Right now I have no set curriculum. We've been doing a Composer study and this Rainforest study along with reading and math.

The resources we used were mostly online as we only had three books that dealt with the rainforest at all. I've compiled my links on a new webpage Rainforest Lapbook. (Even if you don't lapbook, the resources would make a great unit study.) From that page, you can access templates I made for many of the minibooks in the lapbook.

More rainforest lapbook pictures can be found at Flickr.

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About Me

~^~Homeschooling my only child with a somewhat Charlotte Mason approach and a healthy dose of lapbooks, crafts, and field trips. ~^~Showcasing my photography hobby by sharing images of life in China. ~^~Why "One Child Policy Homeschool"? I happen to have an only child, and I live in China. It is just my attempt at a witty name for the blog.