Category: Unit Study

A cute tiger craft.

We started this unit study ages ago and finally finished this week. The main thing the girls would say about this unit was that they LOVED the videos of the tigers, especially the baby tigers and swimming tigers.

Here are the girls watching some of the tiger videos.

As with the other Amanda Bennett Unit Studies, it was broken up into 5 days.

What is a Tiger?

Getting to know Tigers.

Where are the Tigers?

The Science of Tigers.

Cool Things about Tigers.

“Spider Bat” completed this part of the Tiger Unit. Ha ha!

Even though this unit took us much longer than usual, we did have a great time. Amelie thought that tigers with webbed toes for swimming were the best. Nadia thought the Siberian Tigers who lived in the cold were the coolest.

I was very excited to do our first Classic Literature Unit study from Erica over at Confessions of a Homeschooler and we decided to do “Alice in Wonderland.” Nadia is doing a great job strengthening her reading skills, but she still loves for us to read to her so this was a great way to build on our regular daily reading.

The basic layout of this unit is to do a beginning worksheet where the child answers questions and then start reading the book. After each chapter we went to see what the activity was for the lapbook.

Nadia showing Amelie her completed lapbook.

Nadia really enjoyed this and by the end I knew that she was going to remember this book for a long time. Stopping after each chapter to complete the lapbook activity really reinforced the story for her. It also opened up some good discussions about how wild and sometimes confusing this book can be.

I am looking forward to the next classic book unit study on our list!

We are still loving doing the Amanda Bennett unit studies. I decided to let Nadia choose the next one and she picked “Astonishing Animals”. This unit was so fun! We learned about Lemurs, Loggerhead Turtles, Wolverines, Komodo Dragons and Adelie Penguins. There were so many interesting things in this unit about how uniquely created each animal was for it’s specific environment. We were able to get a lot of cool books from the library that went along with each day. We also did a craft for each animal.

Here the girls are coloring loggerhead turtle pages.

Making a ring tailed lemur craft.

Our zoo has Komodo dragons.

And ring tailed lemurs (these guys are hard to get a good photo of so I really like this one).

Nadia putting her lapbook together.

Nadia’s favorite thing she learned was the wolverine’s have padded feet so they don’t sink in the snow. And look at the cute little penguin she made.

This was a great unit study to marvel on God’s wonderful creation.

Here is what we started with for our unit study.

This unit study came from the Amanda Bennett site. This Valentine’s Day was so special for us because it was our 1 year Gotcha Day anniversary so I wanted to do a study as a part of all the fun stuff I had planned for the week. Here is a breakdown of the week.

Day 1: What Is Valentine’s Day?
Day 2: The History of Valentine’s Day
Day 3: Celebrating Valentine’s Day
Day 4: Science and Valentine’s Day
Day 5: Goodies and Gadgets of Valentine’s Day

Nadia got a kick out of making thumb-print hearts.

Nadia designing a special Valentine.

This is Nadia drawing the candy heart factory and the word phrases.

Nadia being silly with a blanket in her jammies and showing me the size of a child’s heart with the pear from her kitchen.

The girls made candy necklaces. It took Amelie a LONG time, but she didn’t give up and I was proud of her.

Here is Nadia’s completed lapbook.

We made lots of crafts and baked Valentine’s goodies. We learned about the human heart and how Hershey Kisses are made. I thought this was an all around fun unit.