Altilab2005 - Distance Education Blog

Today we are starting a new unit study (the one that the book was supposed to be at the library, but wasn't) about Plains Indians. It is based on the book "Where the Buffaloes Begin" by Olaf Baker. Jellybean is really interested in the Plains Indians so I think she will really enjoy this one. We will be reading this book several times, as well as others, and we will also be doing lots of hands-on projects. Ladybug, Jellybean, and Sugarbear will be making notebooks and I will help Boo-bear make a lapbook (it will be her first). I have broken it down to do one major subject area (like science, language arts, etc) each day every week and it will take us 5 weeks to get through it. There are a couple of other subject areas that don't have as much to do, so I will combine those with one of the major subject areas. For instance, on Mondays we will do Social Studies, Tuesdays-Language Arts and Bible/Character studies, Wednesdays-Science, and Thursdays-Applied Math and Art.  Then we will try to add in a couple of the extra activities each week. (This schedule will be pushed back to start today and go through Friday this week since yesterday was Memorial Day.) Most of our narrations and copywork will come from the unit study work and we will continue our regular math lessons and our other religion lessons. I think breaking it down to one subject area a day for the unit study will allow us to get a deeper study of it without rushing. I will post updates about how the unit study is going every so often. We are pretty new to the unit study idea (this will be our 3rd), but so far we have enjoyed them and it makes it easier to do more lessons together as a family. So off we go to the wide open plains....