Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Doll Unit Day Two

Doll Study Day 2

We read four chapters in The Doll Shop Down Stairs

We played Doll Spa



We read several non fiction books library books about dolls and doll collections.

We made beaded necklaces and bracelets for our dolls!  


Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Doll Unit Study Day One!

The girls and I have decided to do a doll unit study!  

This is how things went for Day one:

We watched this video on Discovery Education:  Artifacts: Dolls.  Video Description  Kids have a blast exploring artifacts from around the world found in museum collections. 

We loved seeing pictures of all the different dolls!  Neat and quick!

Then we read several chapters in our book club book for the month: The Doll Shop Downstairs

Next we watched another Discovery Education video:  

Elizabeti's Doll  Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen's classic book, "Elizabeti's Doll," with illustrations by Christy Hale, comes alive in this iconographic program. When her new baby brother arrives, Elizabeti, a young Tanzanian girl, longs for a baby of her own to hold and bathe and kiss and burp. One day she finds the perfect baby - a rock she names Eva - just the right size for holding and bathing and kissing and burping. Expressive collage paintings, along with lovely music by Crystal Taliefero and moving narration by Lynn Whitfield, help tell this tender story about gentleness and love. Part of the Weston Woods Series.


Lots of good discussion took place after this one!   Mainly about how blessed we are to own many dolls!

The next vidoe of the day was :  

WordGirl: Mr. Big's Dolls and Dollars/Great Granny May


We need to head to the craft store and the library to gear up for more doll fun!