This was another of the projects we did during our Colonial Life unit.  It was super-easy and I loved how the notebooks turned out!

To begin, we found compostition notebooks (the kind where all the pages are sewn together with string and the covers are hard.)  I picked out several scrapbooking papers that complimented each other [...]

We’re finishing up our Thirteen Colonies & Colonial Life Unit this week.  I’ll be posting soon about the biggest chunk of the unit, but I wanted to take a minute to highlight the 13 Colonies lapbook/notebook we put together using this book.

I had to do the legwork of locating library books about each of the [...]

We finished our astronomy unit this week!  The kids spent a couple of days preparing final projects and presented them in front of the video camera on Thursday.  They were able to choose whatever astronomy topic most interested them.  It’s no surprise that Caleb chose astronauts as his topic.  Mahayla focused on stars.
Caleb’s presentation included [...]

Last week we wrapped up a very fun Ancient History unit.  After learning what history is, we spent about a week on each of the following civilizations:  Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Israel, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient China and Ancient Aztecs.
This past week, I asked them each to choose the civilization that was their [...]

I need structure.  My children do, too.  A couple of years ago, I tried giving them blank paged notebooks for nature study, and, well, the pages are still mostly blank.  Since we aren’t naturally gifted in sketching or drawing, nor do we eloquently come up with poetry or wise words about nature, those blank pages [...]