Bats - Animal of the Week

To finish up studying spooky animals this month in honor of Halloween, we are rounding out our animals with bats! I threw in some fun facts about the vampire bat which is kind of spooky.

Get the fact sheet, activities, and craft here.

Cinderella Unit Study - Pumpkins, Princesses and France!

When we began homeschooling back in August I had this idea that I would implement Unit Study Style Homeschooling around Holiday Weeks. I figure the kids need a break from routine and it would be a great way to incorporate some of the holiday and something different into curriculum. What I did not realize at the time, is that (for me) it requires actually more prep time...so it might not be THAT great of an idea for busy holiday weeks. However, I feel that if I give myself some heavy prepping early enough it will still work. This is our first unit study/lap book that we are doing for an entire week. 

I found the Cinderella Unit Study for free on Homeschool Share. We are going to make  made lap books using this Unit Study.

I found some Halloween Math Sheets on kidsactivitiesblog.com.

Here are some pumpkin coloring pages on itsybitsyfun.com. They also have the life cycle of a pumpkin worksheets.

Here are some things we want to do did:

• Carve pumpkins online. 
• Go to the pumpkin patch, pick out pumpkins, and actually carve pumpkins. 
• Read Cinderella and Madeline.
• Use our France Ipad App to learn about Paris.
• Watch Cinderella
• Paint Pumpkins
• Learn a few french words
• Work on telling time
• Write a Cinderella Story - Wyatt's was called Karate-ella and it was awesome :-)

Sorry for the late post. We did this unit the week of Halloween.

Dolphin - Animal of the Week

I'm late to post but this week we are studying Dolphins!

Here is our Dolphin fact sheet, activities, and craft.

We got very cool book at the library called Winter's Tail by Julians Hatkoff. It's a very cool story about the dolphin that got a new tail.