The view outside our front door is just gorgeous. Our neighbor has some young trees that have just turned the most golden color. On the side of his house, he has planted sugar maples that will one day turn a deep brick red at the onset of fall.
It made a perfect backdrop for my mom to take some pictures of the girls (and their cousins) last weekend when they all visited.
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This past week, we have started our newest group project/lapbook: Polar Animals. I don’t know what it is about this past year, it seems we have concentrated on all things cold! We did an Iditarod lapbook last spring, and then we did Penguins, now it’s all Polar Animals.
Our theme came from Denna’s workbook she has been using off and on for some time now, called Going On Eagerly by Rod & Staff Publishers. This is the first workbook in their new Preschool G-H-I Series, and each workbook with have a habitat theme! We are excited for the whole series to come out. Each workbook could lead into a lapbook about that particular geographical region.
Here is Denna working on some pages from her workbook, and making a note for daddy to put in his next care package. It says “Love Denna”.
Our table covered in lapbook making tools and papers.
Raven’s minibook about pinnepeds. We got the information from this download.
Raven’s drawing minibooks.
What Denna’s lapbook looks like so far.
Denna has colored all these polar animals according to what the instructions say they should look like.
Here are the resources we have used so far for our studies:
Page about Arctic Wildlife
Enchanted Learning- Arctic Animals
Polar Animals preschool activities and crafts
Polar Animals lapbook at HomeschoolShare
Seaworld Teacher guidebooks (we used Arctic Animals and Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses)
Polar theme coloring pages
Links and books for a Polar theme
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