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August 31, 2009 Today Otter glued into a folder all of the lapbook elements he finished last week about coral reefs: An ocean food pyramid
Lift-the-flap venn diagram
A lift-the-flap matchbook style booklet about fish and shrimp "cleaners". After completing this booklet we watched a great little movie online:
"My skeleton" vs. hard coral skeletons shutterfold
Inside of the skeletons shutterfold (He forgot to circle the inside/outside words!)
Clam shape book with sentences written inside
Coral reef creature cards and pocket
Fish defenses
Parrot fish "story"
Coral reef matchbook
Some more booklets:
Barrier Reef facts shape book
We also finished reading Pirate Diary: The Journal of Jake Carpenter.
Otter really enjoyed both the story and the illustrations. While we went through the book we used the free unit over at Homeschool Share for some vocabulary and discussion ideas. He enjoyed the story so much that I put a couple of other books on hold at the library:
This series of books has really great, detailed and action oriented pictures with fun story lines. In the back of each book there is an illustrated notes for the reader section that explains the real history behind each fictional story.
September 9, 2009 School is coming along nicely. The kids have been enjoying their work and everything has been really lovely and peaceful. I decided to squash a couple of Winter Promise weeks together since we are getting sick of the sea portion of Adventures in Sea & Sky. It's been interesting and educational, but I think we're all ready to move into the sky portion. Otter has recently been working on a jellyfish lapbook I got for free from Homeschool Share. Here's a pic of a couple of "matchbooks" and fast fact files.
A jellyfish lifecycle booklet:
A small shapebook about sizes and a fold out about protection from predators:
We also continue to work out of the 1-2-3 Draw Ocean Life book. Otter made this squid after reading about the giant squid in one of our science books:
I liked that he included creatures from the book I'm currently reading out loud to him (Pagoo) like gooseneck barnacles and sea anemones.
Pagoo is a wonderfully illustrated book about a hermit crab. While you read about his adventures you learn about the lives of many little creatures of the tide pools and all kinds of ocean science. You can get free notebooking pages and lesson ideas over at Homeschool Share to go along with the book.
Take a look at the book on Google Books to see some of the detailed illustrations. You can read it all the way to page 25! Another activity we did this week was make a model of a clam. You can get it free from Ellen McHenry's wonderful printables.
The clam's "foot" can actually move in and out of the shell. Notice how the clam's siphons and gills are 3-D. We learned a lot from this project. It was easy to put together and well worth the 15-20 minutes we spent on it.
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