Frog Lapbooks

A17 ( recent birthday!) finished two frog lapbooks. The frog's tongue on the front cover moves in and out.

The lilypad flapbooks each contain a fact about frogs such as What does a frog eat? The answers are Boardmaker pictures. We used resources from several places including Homeschool Share. We read books from the library prior to completing the lapbook pieces.

Several of our favorite books were A Tadpole Grows Up by Pam Zollman and Frogs and Other Amphibians by Bobbie Kalman.

A cool frog experiment is cooking tapioca beads to simulate frog's eggs! You can find this experiment in back of the book titled Why Frogs Are Wet ( Let's Read and Find Out Science) by Judy Hawes.

Space Lapbook

A16 was really proud about the tabbed book on planets that we made. We also made a smaller book for other vocabulary. I found instructions here on how to make one.

A16 chose space and planets for a unit study this past fall. We took about 6 weeks to cover the unit and read many non-fiction books from the library. We used most of the components from Evan Moor's Science Works for Kids: Exploring Space. It has mini books, experiments, and projects.

Other components were taken from Home School Share. Squidoo also has a lense with lots of space and planet resources. This blog has pictures and links for a space lapbook. Enchanted Learning also has space and planet resources. Click on the link in my sidebar.

We read lots of great non-fiction books for this unit. One that A16 especially liked was DK Eye Know Space. Other good selections include: My Book of Planets ( Scholastic board book), Exploring the Planets in Our Solar System and Dr. Seuss There's No Place Like Space. Magic Tree House Research Guide : Space is also a fabulous book. A16 seems to like the research guides more than the fiction books in the MTH series.

Although this was a long unit, A16 really enjoyed it and wanted to read space books everyday!

2009: 100+ Reading Challenge

Tara TX on Homeschool Share posted about J. Kaye's blog and the 100+ Reading Challenge. The goal is to read 100 or more books in 2009 and post the titles on our blog. Since I belong to an IRL book club as well as several online, I am going to give it a try. I find that I read in spurts--either nothing interests me or I have a stack waiting to be read.

1-Unnaccustomed Earth
2-Running Hot
3-Zinnia
4-Amaryllis
5-Orchid
6-The Way They Learn
7-The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
8-White Lies
9-Truth or Dare
10-Light in Shadow
11-Falling Awake
12-A Picture's Worth