Anastasia will be done with school by Friday and we will take a much needed break. I am not sure who needs it more right now, her or I!! There is quite a bit of stuff I want to get done before the baby comes.
Over the summer Anastasia will participate in the summer reading programs, take typing and work on her spelling. All of that will be pretty low key. We will start back up before the end of July just to study the State of South Dakota (We will end up doing a notebook of all 50 states) but we are starting with South Dakota because we will be going there for a week at the end of July for a cousin's wedding. We are so excited to go!
So, back to today, it was busy!!! Anastasia had art and then we had our year end author's chair. All the kids did a great job sharing.
Joshua reading his Farmer, Farmer What Do You See? book
Savannah singing (with the help of Anastasia)"5 Little Ducks Went Out One Day"
Another girl brought a worm composting bin to share. This was a big hit! I told Anastasia to enjoy everyone's projects but we would not be getting anymore animals anytime soon!!! (She got her hermit crabs after the last Author's Chair!!)
The composting worm bin is really neat they had over 2000 worms!
Anastasia sharing her region book about Arizona.
The group and all their projects!
We finally got our Farm Lapbook all together. The kids really loved doing this. We are still reading and rereading their favorite farm books. This lapbook comes from www.HandofaChild.com it is called Down on the Farm. We also added some of our own stuff and books from www.enchantedlearning.com and www.Homeschoolshare.com. I love all three of those sites.
For this lap book we actually made a "double one" by combining two file folders. We had so much stuff to put in it. Joshua and Savannah each have their own. They are pretty much the same excpet Joshua has a couple different books that focus on writing and sounds.
We even added one flap extension
My kids absolutely love the Brown Bear, Brown Bear; Polar Bear, Polar Bear; and Panda Bear, Panda Bear books by Eric Carle. So we decided to follow that pattern (for the most part) and create a "Farmer, Farmer What Do You See?" book. They love to read it.
Anastasia spent the last quarter studying all about our state, Arizona. One of her projects was to make a book about the three regions that Arizona is divided into.
We took six pieces of cardstock and using clear packing tape, taped them together so they would then fold like an accordian.
She worked on outlining skills by writing an outline about Arizona's geography. She made a map of major rivers, monuments and cities.
This is a map outlining the three regions. Then on the next three pages she had to pick an animal to represent each region and write a paragraph about each animal.
Then on the back side of each cooresponding page she drew a picture of each region.
Then she made a chart of different info
The last page was pictures of the different symbols of Arizona.
In another blog I will share more about what we accomplished this year and how the school year went.
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