Ia and U have finished their Tiger Lapbooks. They have spent about a week learning about tigers, but for me the actual tiger information is not the main point. More importantly they have been doing language work through the medium of the tiger project, and they have been learning about learning.
Much of this project was based around a Homeschool Highlights project pack, available from Currclick. JazakAllahkhair to Umm Adam, who sometimes comments here, for the encouragement to investigate Currclick further. I had been to the site before, but the huge volume of items on there, and the difficulty of knowing what could be useful and what not put me off at first.
Anyway, it turned out that this pack had some activities that were too easy for Ia but good for U and plenty of others that were just right for Ia, so she enjoyed herself! She was also able to read through the information booklet by herself, which was a bonus.
There was lots of colouring. There were several poems, but we just did one, as that part was a little harder. The types of tigers and tiger diets bits were from Homeschool Share.
U had less to do. But she made up for this with extra cutting out.
I liked that this project had pages for filling in missing letters, copywork and a wordsearch, all focussing on a small group of vocabulary items. This is a good idea to take into our own lapbooks.
The lines for the copywork were too wide for Ia. She prefers to write a little smaller.
I took the girls to an art workshop today, where they spent an hour and a half making these flower sculptures. First they painted the pots, then they designed their flowers, threaded them onto wire and stuck them in oasis in the pots.
