Nov. 13, 2008 Magic Tree House Notebook
These are pictures of our Magic Tree House Notebook. For every book we read we add activity pages to it.
The Outside Cover we made..Just a regular folder with brads and pockets.
This is the passport you can get on the MTH site.
You get a passport sticker every time you answer questions
about the book.
On left, I have highlighted the books we have read.
On right an activity page from MTH site.
Some of our own work and an activity page.
Our own work and another related page from the internet.
MIdnight on the Moon Drawing by ds.
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Oct. 19, 2008 A years worth of Unit Studies...
This is the spiral we used for our HSS unit lapbooks. We began filling it last August and just finished using it up. I would have to say it went a really long way. It only cost $6.88 for a year. So I think that for the price it was a great way to compile all the units easily. (Instead of using a bunch of folders like we did in the past.) Plus it made review so much easier. We could just easily flip back.
I bought this lapbook spiral at WalMart. I recently found some really cute striped ones at Big Lots
that we will be using since this one is full. They were only $4.00 and they are acid free.
Oh By the way, if you want to see what the lapbooks look like inside go over to the right under
my categories and click the Lapbook notebook link. I have just about everything we have done
on there. (Well since my blog started that is.)
I refer to this as a Lap A Note. Since it is a notebook with lapbook components.
From the side view you can see how fat it is.
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Oct. 17, 2008 Johnny Appleseed (This weeks lesson) Oct. 15, 2008 Apples to Oregon Lapbook
Last week we did Apples to Oregon. This book is so funny! The kids loved it and so did I.
We learned alot about the Oregon Trail.
We stamped apples for the title page.
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Oregon Bird, Flower and Flag, Apple sayings, location
Inside view
      
Learning about the Different time zones in the USA.  |
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Oct. 14, 2008 Wizard of Oz Lapbook
We have been reading through the Wizard of Oz for about a month. We read a chapter a day. The kids just loved reading it.. They love talking about the differences between the movie and the book. Even though they only saw the movie once and it was over a year ago.
The other night they got to watch the Muppets version of the WOZ. They both really liked it. They said it was pretty close to the book.
This week we will be watching the Wiz and the Wizard of Oz (original ) with Judy Garland to complete our study. We will finish the book this week and also our Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting the book to the movies.
About the book. (Interesting facts) Maps of Kansas and OZ. 
Inside View
More about dogs, Dorthy kills the witch mini books 
more about dogs, Dorthy kills the witch (inside mini books) 
Brainy Notes, Scarecrow info mini books
Tin Man, Oz, Heart Facts, Lion Mini books
Inside Tin man and Oz mini books
Venn Diagram-Not yet finished.
Learning about Tornado Alley
Matching weather words
Tornado mini book and questions.
Oh and did I mention that most all these lapbook pieces are
at Homeschoolshare for free. A couple came from Enchanted Learning. |
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Oct. 13, 2008 Climbing Kansas Mountain Lapbook
Climbing Kansas Mountain is a unit study in Five In A Row. 
Lapbook pieces came from HomeschoolShare.com 
Kansas Acrostic, Flag, Bird and Flower, location.
Metaphors, Kansas Facts Crossword
Land forms.
Sunflower craft, State coloring page.
Witchita Kansas is called the Air Capital of the world.
 
We also learned that Kansas is called the Breadbasket of the
Nation since most of our grain comes from Kansas.
We learned how important grain is. Our livestock eat it, so it
gives us meat and dairy.
We make breads, cereals, pasta, flour from it.
Also Lebanon Kansas is the geographical center of the US. |
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Oct. 4, 2008 Columbus - September Study
From the D'Aularies' Columbus
Columbus Believes the World is Round
DD's drawing and copy work from Draw Write Now
The Indians from Draw Write Now.
Columbus' knowledge of astronomy saves his men.
Marco Polo is influence on Columbus
Columbus info from Enchanted learning.
Draw Write Now work.
Science lessons on Ship Worms -Termites of the sea.
Science lesson on Lunar Eclipses.
Columbus song, and acrostic poem.
Columbus words and Game from HSS.
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Oct. 4, 2008 Beautiful Feet Early American History
Our cover Collage
Character Cards
August Study -Leif the Lucky
Picture of Erik the Red
Picture of Leif with copy work scripture.
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Leif Discovers North America
Map with Viking Voyages, Exploration and Timelines.
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Sep. 27, 2008 Keep the Lights Burning Abbey Lap a note
I call them Lap a Notes, because they really are notebooks with lapbook components. I wanted a collection of all our HSS units in one book and our FIAR units in another and this was a very easy way to keep them and store them. (I have 5 magazine holders full of traditional file folder type lapbooks that we
did the 1st 2 years of our schooling.)
Flag, bird, and flower of Maine. (HSS)
I did not know how to make the flag book at the time.
Learning about Lobsters. Post cards a fellow homeschooler in Maine sent us.
Map from United States Coloring Book (Rod and Staff) |
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Sep. 25, 2008 Popcorn at the Palace Sep. 25, 2008 The Night Before Christmas Lap a notebook
Well I am way behind in posting this one. We did this one last Christmas.
Story Title with tree cut out, dd decorated with snowflake stamps.
Who was St. Nicholas, story order mini book.
How many reindeer can you name-memory.
Reindeer cards
Reindeer Mini book from Enchanted Learning, Rhyming words.
Dr. Santa letters.
Book review
Rhyming words
The unit and lapbook components are available free at Homeschoolshare |
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Sep. 25, 2008 Presidents Day Lap Note Sep. 24, 2008 Frog went a Courtin'
This was a fun unit.
We learned about frogs, the book is the song with pictures.
We learned about the frog life cycle.
Mini books include France and Scotland maps, story sequence.
We kept this one down to 2 pages.
(Unit is free at HSS).
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Sep. 24, 2008 Crow Boy Lapbook
Flag of Japan and Map (Enchanted Learning)
Japanese paper dolls, counting book, bird beaks activity.
Bird beaks experiment-what we found out. |
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Sep. 21, 2008 When Agnes Caws Lapbook
We did this lapbook a couple weeks ago, but I am just now getting them posted.
Title picture, What makes birds different. Bird fact, vocabulary.
Right side above Bible verse and Where are the Himalyas?
Ways to travel, vocabulary, bible verse.
Bird Guide Flag Book.
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Sep. 21, 2008 Mini Office Language Arts 3rd grade.
For Ds's mini office I wanted to focus on the elements of writing.
From sentences to paragraphs to stories.
I got some of the printables at lapbooklessons.com and others here,
10 Reasons to Write, Parts of a Story
Getting Started-What to write, the 5 w's, Tools Putting it together and Getting it just right.
On back-the parts of a letter, paragraph structure
Letter body format, and how to address and envelope.
How to write and orange-sentence structure.
Sentence structure continued and how to write an apple-paragraph structure.
Paragraph formation review.
The hamburger diagram for paragraph formation
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Sep. 21, 2008 Mini offices 1st grade Language Arts.
I saw some examples of these at http://lapbooklessons.com/. So I decided to make some for the kids.
For DD's I wanted something to help her with alphabet, vowels, dipthongs, r controlled vowels, sentence structure, etc. I also included some color and number words to help her in spelling as well as the days of the week and months of the year. I was able to get the printables there as well.
Here are some pics of her mini office.
Number words, color words and Months.
Writing encouragement, punctuation rules, writing checklist
and checking out the finished work.
Alphabet, Short and long vowel sounds
Dipthongs, irregular vowels, consonant clusters and diagraphs.
Word wall of high frequency 1st grade words and days of the week.
I know it will be alot of help to her in her school work.
She is always asking me how to spell things. She actually loves to write and draw.
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Nov. 6, 2007 Our Week with Stone Soup
We did this a couple weeks ago...I just forgot to add it to my blog! the kids loved this book!
Learning About the Netherlands
The Recipe
Ds' Book Review
Dd's favorite part of the story.
Venn Diagram comparing/contrasting different versions.
The Poem
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Nov. 1, 2007 FireKeeper's Son Oct. 12, 2007 Frtiz and the Beautiful Horses
 Well I give this book a big thumbs up! We loved it. And as usual Jan Brett does not let you down with this wonderful story!  Title and dd's stencil trace of horse.
10 Commandments
 Dd's coloring page
Moses and the 10 Commandments
Learning about Europe and walled cities.
Ds' main character book report.
Enchanted learning page
Learning about Adjectives
What horses eat. Horse gaits, drawing European architecture. |
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