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!  

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!  

FUNtastic Folders! C isfor Christmas and Cookies review

The girls and I were given a copy of Sharon Crooks 

FUNtastic Folders! C isfor Christmas and Cookies Unit to review.  We have been having a great time with it.   Our review:   When you hear about a christmas cookies unit you know that you will be having a good time in the kitchen with your kids! Thanks to this new unit by Sharon Crooks you will also be learning at the same time! Through this unit you will learn science, math, lauguage arts and so much more. At the start of the unit is a listing of supplies that you will need. Most of this stuff is things that you will have on hand. The receipes that are included are kids friendly and very tasty as well! We plan to use these goodies to give out to family and friends as gift. This unit is unique, it actually included two topics, the cookie one and one on the nativity. The Nativity unit ties in many subjects as well. You can't go wrong teaching your kids about the true meaning of Christmas. This activity folder has great hands on learning ideas to do just that. Pictures of the fun we are having coming soon!

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) 


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Contest will end at midnight on Friday Sept. 23rd! Winner will be posted on the blog and contacted Saturday morning!