Aug. 28, 2006 - Rod & Staff and a little me

We had a really good school day. Last night, I was looking over the lessons for today and saw that today's science lesson (in the Rod and Staff 2nd grade science book) was on seeds. Sure I was tempted to just read the story and work the questions with him. Maybe go outside and find out what seeds are in our own overgrown weedy yard. I had collected Strawberry seeds, blueberry seeds and pineapple seeds from some recipes early this month. I have been reading online about this new, cool thing called Lapbooks, and I myself like to scrapbook, so I thought "I wonder if for this lesson we can scrapbook our seeds." So from the lesson I came up with a way to scrapbook in a folder the seeds I'd collected. I wrote out the facts from the lesson and the Bible verse. I took a picture of our huge oak tree and found a small acorn. I taped all this together and showed it to him this morning. I left him to work on it this afternoon and he was so excited about this project. It was really fun. I am glad I had a sample to show him--I think that made a big difference--he could see the end result or goal of what I was asking of him.