April 2, 2008Spring JournalTake some time to make this journal with your children. When you are finished, you can use it as a reading journal or notebook. If you use it for a notebook, put pictures, drawings and paragraphs about the science, history or literature topic you are studying. Have fun.
Change the colors and papers for a boy or a specific topic. directions come from Splitcoaststampers.com right here March 19, 2008Easter - Q & A NotebookThis would be a fun activity for Easter. You can use questions about the events of Passion Week. Each year, you can pull it out and use it during your Easter celebration. Use this Flip book as a model for Q & A for your child’s studies. Write the question on the outside of the flip and the answer behind the flip page. Change the colors to suit your child and the topic of the book. This will take some time & patience as you follow these directions from Splitcoaststampers February 28, 2008Shelfari - What’s That???My good friend, Noel Leithart, told me about a book list website that both my kids and I are using. Since I love to read, it is so much fun to list the books I’ve read, the ones I’m reading and the ones I plan to read. Here’s the cool thing…you AND each of your kids can have their own shelf that has book covers of the books you’ve read Take a look at my book shelf…My Shelfari Book Shelf If you want to start your own book shelf, use this link: February 6, 2008Chinese New YearTomorrow, Feb 7th is Chinese New Year. Take a minute to plan a special meal with your family Spend the day as a break from traditional school and study China. Use the internet or go to the library to discover the Chinese culture. Your kids will love a break and learn at the same time. Who knows??? They might be inspired to learn more about Chinese history or the Great Wall of China. Oh, I almost forgot. Here’s a site with a Chinese meal for you: February 2, 2008Are You Ready to Party… and learn Math at the same time?Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday and you need to get ready for that party. Choose your favorite football snacks and let your kids make them. Be sure to let them learn about measuring and fractions as you make your snack. Here are a few Super Bowl Snack recipes: February 1, 2008Super Bowl ResearchTry this Scavenger Hunt January 31, 2008Super Bowl Math- Graph each Super Bowl champion team and the number of times they have won the Super Bowl. - Graph the point spread for each Super Bowl (difference between points of winner and loser) - Determine the average points scored by all winning teams. January 30, 2008Famous Football PlayersMy son does not like history as most of you know. But he LOVES sports! Do you have a child like this? This week you can tie in sports with studies. What subjects can you do? – History Choose a famous football player from a past Super Bowl. Write a report about his life and achievements. If you are unsure how to help your child write a short 1, 3 or 5 paragraph paper, use Teaching Writing: Structure & Style. It’ is absolutely the BEST writing program to tie in writing with ANY subject area, even football. *** For younger children who aren’t writing papers, let them alphabetize all NFL teams by city and mascot. January 29, 2008Can You Really Do Art with Football?Of course you can! Find pictures of football logos and other logos on the web. Talk about what makes a good logo. Then let your kids draw a new logo for one of the NFL teams. Be sure to have plenty of scrap paper for sketches, as well as lots of colored markers to make their logo bright and beautiful. Football, Super Bowl & GeographyTry one or more of these four fun geography activities this week, integrating Super Bowl and football into your plans. Here’s a good outline map of the United States: http://www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/pdf/us_nl.pdf NFL PLAYOFFS You can change this by changing the color code. You might color code the cities by AFC & NFC. PAST CHAMPIONS NFL TEAMS SUPER BOWL LOCATION |
