Posted on May 28, 2009 - by

Year 0: Week 30

Our school days are Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 9:30am, when we return from dropping off Ethan at Mother’s Day Out. Each bullet point is a 5-15 minute period of time.

This is our third week creating a lapbook about butterflies from homeschoolshare.com to contain all the new things we’re learning. If you’d like to know more about what a lapbook is, please visit this post where I included helpful links that helped me learn more about this great way to present a unit study.

Monday:

• Mommy’s book club
• Errand, cleaning day
• Observe caterpillars and eggs on milkweed in backyard

Tuesday:

• Pledge
  Weather: Record temperature, outside conditions
  Calendar: Write out weekly schedule
• Butterfly Lapbook
  
  • Read The Butterfly Boy by Jeanne M. Lee. (Literature)
  • Read My, Oh My–A Butterfly!: All About Butterflies (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library) by Tish Rabe. (Natural History)
    • Add lizards to complete the Predators mini-book.
  • Read From Caterpillar to Butterfly by Deborah Heiligman. (Natural History)
    • Complete the Life Span of a Butterfly mini-book
  • Observe caterpillars and eggs on milkweed in backyard and add to mini-book.
  • Complete Butterfly Math mini-book.
  • Lunch (1hr)
  • Independent Reading/Rest Time

  Wednesday:

  • Story time at the Library (11:30 am)
  • Turn in old and check out new books (12:00 pm)
  • Lunch (1hr)
  • Outdoor Play (1hr)
  • Literature: Library Books

  Thursday:

  • Pledge
    Weather: Record temperature, outside conditions
    Calendar: Write out weekend schedule
  • Butterfly Lapbook
    
    • Continued copywork of The Caterpillar by Christina Rossetti. (Handwriting)
    • Glue butterflies into Butterfly Math mini-book.
    • Read The Magic School Bus: Butterfly and the Bog Beast by Nancy Krulik.
    • Read Watch Me Grow: Butterfly by DK Publishing.
    • Put together double lapbook! (A single file folder lapbook was too small to glue ALL the mini-books we did!)
    • Lunch (1hr)
    • Independent Reading/Rest Time

    Friday:

    • Nature Walk