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Before I get into posting a million and one pictures of our schooling update, I just thought I'd casually mention the election, since it IS Election Day and all. I haven't said one word about politics up to this point. Not a word. Mainly because that's not really what this blog is for, but also because I don't think anyone really listens to me in that arena. However, it is now 1:18pm Central time on election day, and I'd like to make the suggestion that if you haven't already voted, and actually visited my blog today for electoral advice....which would be ridiculous, but it could happen....then I'd like to tell you to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket. That's how I voted. I voted this way because the Republican party traditionally upholds my moral and economical beliefs. I also like Sarah Palin's hair. Obama also scares the bee-jeebers out of me. He ranks right up there with Freddy Kruger, and the Burger King guy, Michael Jackson, and even Tom Cruise. So there. I said it. If you wanted my advice, which I doubt, you have it.
Now, what's up at Hilltop, our home school.... As I began to start uploading my pictures of what we've been doing over the last month or so, I realized I had a lot of project pictures. I have pics of two lapbooks that Harrison has recently completed and Annaleigh's science project that she did for her tutorial science class...and that's it. So that's what I have to show you. For those of you who don't lapbook with your kids and have no desire to, you might as well log off now because this is going to be boring. Nonetheless.... Harrison's BIRD lapbook for science...
For the cover he colored, cut out and labeled several of the birds that we studied. Here's the inside all spread out...
Most of the stuff I got from the Considering God's Creation curriculum that Annaleigh used several years ago. I've decided to stick with Sonlight for Harrison, but the latter still has some great resources in their workbook. I also got a few of the activities from an Evan-Moor book on general science. The pictures of the birds came from various Internet sources where I basically just googled the various bird names and chose the picture that I liked best. A labeled bird with all of its birdy parts...
Two booklets and an unfortunate photo of my hangnail...
Another booklet focusing on flight...
A couple of lift-the-flap activities on bird growth in and out of the egg...
(Sorry...didn't realize that one was blurry until it uploaded, and I was too lazy to go re-take the shot.)
What's inside a bird? C'mon...you know you've always wondered...
And then the back cover, simply decorated with even more bird pictures...
And now for the lapbook on VIKINGS... The cover...
Harrison colored the picture for the cover at the beginning of our studies, so he was unaware of yet that most Vikings were blond and fair, so thus we have our Latino or African-American viking. Oh well. Here's the inside view...
His labeled Viking, ready for battle...
A fold-out of traditional Viking weapons (and, yes, I do know that he misspelled ax)...
A run-down of where Vikings lived, including a map and then an illustration of a Viking village. The Viking village picture lifts up to display his report, but that didn't photograph well.
Here's an explanation of runes and a message that he wrote...
Here's the interpretation of it...
Awwwww...that almost makes me forget the fact that at this very moment he's supposed to be vacuuming the living room, but is instead sorting his Halloween candy. Almost. On the back cover, we made a pocket for his Viking family paper dolls, and then we pasted a Viking board game on the pocket...
Annaleigh completed her tutorial science project in great style and flourish. Never mind that we were down to the last eight hours before it was due.
Her project was on Ptolemy I, the early scientist who basically got the Solar System in the wrong order. He thought everything revolved around the Earth, which was a nice idea and all, but of course was false. She made her faulty Solar System from halved Styrofoam balls, and as you can see, he also had the sizes pretty mixed up too. See the big smears all over the board? Well, that's what you get when glue everything the night before. During her presentation at school, rivers of Elmer's glue were running down the board. Speaking of her presentation, if you have an extra five minutes and want to learn a little about Ptolemy, we went to the tutorial and taped it....
Just so you won't think all we've done since September is glue stuff onto a couple of file folders and procrastinate on science projects, I did find two more photos of school work. See, here's Harrison, hard at work reading and chewing on a mouth piece...
And then Annaleigh's bed...
I know she's not physically there at the moment, but just the mere fact that it is littered with books and papers, both up top and below should prove something....besides the fact that she is organizationally challenged. Well, that's about it. The next few weeks are going to be a crazy time as we are in crunch mode before the baby arrives. I may not get to another update until close to Christmas...or maybe even...gulp...January. |
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