During the month of December, homeschool is a bit like public school: it's chaos! We did keep up on Math and Reading, and had a great time reading aloud several Christmas Stories: Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. ( That one took us a little longer, but was worth it!) We finished off with the account of Christ's birth from the book of Luke.
I'd like to say we all learned a lot, but to be honest, we mostly just had a great time. ;) All the papers the kids worked on have been put together in a lapbook. Here are some pics...
The first yellow one is Brandon's. The red rectangle says "Christmas Around the W
orld" and has "Merry Christmas" written in different languages. The green square is a pocket with Reindeer flashcards, which we used for alphabetizing. The white rectangle is a booklet of the 12 days of Christmas, with their own wish for each day.The second page has a white paper with Brandon's rendition of Santa Claus. On the inside, it had similes and couplets that he wrote about Santa. The Christmas Tree has vocabulary like "thistle" and "kerchief."
The third page has little matchbook-style flaps with different symbols of Christmas.
The next page has a brad holding tags with some of the names of Jesus, as well as a little gold rectangle with the gifts that were given to Him. The white rectangle opens up to list memories from Christmas past, fun things from this Christmas and expectations for Christmases yet to come.
The navy blue page is a bit hard to see. It has a brown stable and an envelope which holds small pictures of all the people who were in the nativity scene. They can be taken out and set up in the stable as the kids tell the story.
The kids also made a front page for their lapbooks, but they used too much glitter glue. It might be dry enough to scan in February! ;)
Nathan's is similar to Brandon's lapbook. I'll post pics of his next time we do one. We'll also try to get his posted on his own blog soon.
5 comments:
Looks like some fun activities!!
I bet Sadie wants to get in on the act too if she's anything like Tiffany!
Sadie gets to do most of what we do, but she's a little scissor-happy so not much is left for the final product. At least she feels a part of what we're doing and she's getting really good at those scissors! :o)
I rememer not wanting the kids to have anything to do with scissors, they would cut everything! Then they went to Head Start and they couldn't do anything with them. I had to find the happy medium. But scissors are still a very scarey thing to me in the hands of pre-schoolers. (even some of my junior elementary schoolers!!) LOL
Adeptness with scissors is a good predictor of reading ability. You were good with scissors at that age, Angie.
So were Nate and Brandon! Our family is either very bright or very destructive. :o) Maybe both!
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