Friday, April 1, 2011

Nn nest and Tt Turtle

Okay, so the Dude is working through My Father's World from A to Z. We just finished up the Nn Nest unit. It worked out great because Tink is working on her badge requirements for her American Heritage Girls "Our Feathered Friends" badge. They built a nest out of mud, sticks and strips of newspaper.







Then we moved on to the Tt Turtle unit. When it was time to make a paper plate turtle the Dude was moving a bit like a turtle, plus I knew LB would want in on the painting action so I decided to let her help him. Even Tink surprised me and wanted to help paint too.


Here's the finished turtle.


The Dude has been having problems absorbing the details in the lessons so to help reinforce his lessons we're going to try to print out lapbooks for each unit he studies. So far the most useful looking lapbooks for the Dude are on Homeschool Share. Dude likes cutting, coloring and pasting quite a bit now that he's finally able to do it well so the lapbooks will be pretty handy.

Oops! I forgot to explain what a lapbook is for those who don't speak homeschool mom-ese: a lapbook is just a manila file folder filled with mini books on whatever subject you're teaching. Here's an example.


The Dude also has a pretty nice speech therapist at the local school. She's great because she has the mom perspective down and he really likes her. She volunteered to bring her tortoises so he could get an up-close look at them. That was really nice of her!

I'll also be sure to take him to the reptile house at the zoo and take a good look at the big Galapagos Tortoises on the way in.

Tink is going to get some small aquatic turtles for her birthday but we'll have to wait a bit for that.

I'll post pictures of the lapbook once we're done with it and any other interesting project we do for the Tt Turtle unit.

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