School Matinee Series Jigsaw Jones

The near by university host several School Matinee Series shows each year for kids.  The first one of this year was Jigsaw Jones Case of the Class Clown.  Evamarie loves mystery books and she had read lots from this series. 


This is the set from the show:

When you get tickets for the show you are given a study guide to go along with it.  While we waited for the show to start Evamarie worked on one of the worksheets about cracking codes!  William helped her out!

The tickets to these shows are just 5.00 and we look forward to them each year!  The next one is Cinderella!

Kabongo review

Go Go Kabongo

is a great website for kids that are learning to read.  Emma loves the computer like most kids today and with this game site. I don't feel like she is just wasting time.  It has many games that teach reading skills in a fun way. Emma thinks that they are just for fun and doesn't even realize that she is learning.  The colorful characters are really cute!  The site has a parents section that gives detailed progress reports on how your child is doing.  There are also printable pages that you can download to reinforce the skills that the kids are learning online.  Go Go Kabongo is free but there are more games to explore on their site for a fee.  

Your child begins their adventure in the TreeHouse section of the site. Here the get to create their own avitair! Once that is set up they are off to explore the games! As they play the games they earn stickers their very own "create your own" comic book, decorations for their Tree House , or pieces for their personal skate park. 

If you are looking a fun way to teach some reading skills this is the site for you! Give it a try.  You can even enter the code LEARN to get a free game, 4.94 value!!

Head on over to www.kabongo.com today for great learning fun!


(I was given full access to the site for free in exchange for my honest review)

Freezer paper stencil shirt

Several folks have asked how we made the shirts that the girls wore to the dolphin tale movie.  I'm am going to try to explain here:

The first step is to select an image to use for your stencil. Google the pattern you are looking for, we searched dolphin template and found the ones we liked.  Print them off. The next step is to trace the image onto the "dull" or "plain" side of your freezer paper.  After tracing, you will carefully cut out the inside of your image using an x-acto knife. You can use the piece that you have cut as your stencil or the pattern that was left behind.  We used the dolphins that we cut out! 

 Place your cut-out image shiny side down on the shirt and iron over it to adhere it to the shirt.  Make sure that it is stuck down all around the edges.  Use any fabric paint to paint inside the stencil (or all over the shirt in our case)!  For this project we tried the spray on fabric paint!  It gave the shirts a tie dye look!

Let the paint dry then peel off the freezer paper stencil! Enjoy your creation!  You are only limited by your imagination on what type of shirt you can make!


Hope this helps!

Dolphin Tale Giveway

Dolphin Tales is opening up September 23 Nation wide and the mission is for everyone to get out and watch a good wholesome movie. 

The neat part is that the two main characters are homeschooled. Finally, a movie about children who are homeschooled. 

The good folks at Homeschool Movie club sent me some promotional items and I would like to do a giveaway on my blog to promote this great movie!


The prize pack includes:


a tshirt
stickers
movie poster
bookmarks
postcards 
beach ball

Mandatory Entry: Leave a comment below telling me if you plan to see the movie!



Optional Extra Entries: (leave 1 comment per entry) 


Like our school facebook page:  Sack Family Adventures
Like Homeschool Movie Club on facebook and tell them I sent you
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Contest will end at midnight on Friday Sept. 23rd! Winner will be posted on the blog and contacted Saturday morning!

  

Princess Mail

 A few weeks ago for a writing lesson we wrote to our favorite disney princess!  Today we got our autographed pictures in the mail!

Your kids can do this too!  Write your favorite Disney character (any one will do, doesn't have to be a princess) a letter to and send it to this address:

Walt Disney Company
Attn: Fan Mail Department
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521

You’ll get an autographed picture back in a few weeks. This can be fun AND educational!  They can learn about writing letters, how the mail system works and to be patient for their return mail!

Dolphin Tale

Join homeschoolers nationwide for the very FIRST  HOMESCHOOL DAY  and watch  DOLPHIN TALEwith your group. It makes a statement to Hollywood to rally behind a movie that finally ‘gets it right’ and tells a great story without all the junk, twaddle, and moral compromise! This movie has all the good stuff we want more of and is truly entertaining and inspiring for the entire family. It’s a story we can support and get behind, because it affirms who we are and what we stand for.  This movie even has 2 homeschool kidscast in the starring roles! (The casting agents went to a local support group in California and found them!)

It’s time the homeschool community shows Hollywood we have a voice!!!!  We can show the entertainment industry our strength and our impact on their box office!

The bottom line is that the Homeschool Movie Club (http://www.homeschoolmovieclub.com/) wants to prove that we are a big and VIABLE market and we can support Hollywood IF they will create and produce movies like DOLPHIN TALE – great movies with traditional, conservative family values. I am hoping you will be a part of this great opportunity with me!

Going Batty

Our first unit study for the school year was BATS!  Evamarie played a bat in the Jungle Book.

This was her costume:

These are the books that we read during the unit:

We did the lapbook and unit study from homeschool share on the book Stellaluna.  We learned about where fruit bats live, echolocation, baby bats, whether animals are diurnal or noctural, whether animals are carniivores, herbivores, or omnivores, and the anatomy of a bat.  

We watched the following videos on united streaming:

Stellaluna

The Magic School Bus: Going Batty

We made bat finger puppets:

We also made a bat mobile with glow in the dark painted bats!

My daddy made us a bat house and we hope to get it up this week.

 We hope that some bats take up there and eat up lots of mosquitoes!

We enjoyed a few online bat stories:

http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/intro/story.html

http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/bats/story1.htm

We really learned a lot!