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Back to School Unit Study

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September 30, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

Usually, back to school themes have to do with apples, fall, leaves, getting to know new friends, and many other traditional topics.

We homeschool, and it’s just now changing to cooler temps. We often do not back to school, celebrating the freedom of staying home.

For our Back to School theme, we let our library story time do our activity for us.

Convenient and I didn’t have to think or clean up anything! Bonus.

Our new storybook lady this year is pretty awesome. That makes all the difference in the world! And she loves kids. She spends so much time on the lessons and provides great experiential learning every Wednesday for about an hour.

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My girls are the oldest kids there and they usually help clean up the crafts. Without being asked. Love them.

They like front row seating.

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The books for this session were fun. Great illustrations and animals!

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I’d never heard of some of these book selections. They’re just great! Always fun to meet new book friends.

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These are some of our absolute favorites. Oh, the giggles when she read them.

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The storytime activity for the kids was to make little books of their very own.

The kids were provided little booklets with colored cardstock covers and white pages inside. Pictures from magazines were already cut out and the kids could choose them to glue into their books to make collages.

Tori made a butterfly book. She wrote a title on her cover.

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Tori also drew butterflies in addition to pasting pictures.

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Kate made a book of her favorite animals. Kate wrote the names of all her favorite animals under their pictures.

Alex made a transportation book. He really, really loved this activity.

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And we all got cool bookmarks!

Back to School Ideas:

  • Night before school party
  • Special breakfast
  • Pictures to commemorate the new year
  • Memory board or interview page
  • Gifts or treats
  • Look through new school materials and books together to get familiar.
  • Set up a work area for each child to complete assignments.
  • Special back to school books. It’s hard to find books celebrating homeschool.
  • New clothes fashion show. It could be new loungewear or pajamas!
  • Schultüte – traditional school cones for 1st graders in Germany. Another Schulüte DIY idea here. DIY auf Deutsch hier.
  • Ice cream!
  • Chalk drawings in the driveway or sidewalk
  • Fresh flowers, especially roses for new schoolers! I love the Waldorf rose ceremony.
  • Discuss plans, desires, and dreams for the year
  • Make calm jars with glitter, oil, food coloring, and water.
  • Make tie-dye shirts or bags.
  • Go hiking or do a nature scavenger hunt.
  • Picnic lunch
  • Bowling
  • Parties with a fun theme, even if it’s just immediate family
  • Movie night

How do you celebrate back to school?

Check out the fun books we read!

ProSchool Membership - Productive Homeschooling Check out what the others did for the school theme: Enchanted Homeschooling Mom – 3 Dinosaurs – Monsters Ed – Chestnut Grove Academy – Growing in God’s Grace – Royal Little Lambs – Life with Moore Babies – Teach Beside Me – The Usual Mayhem – Mum Central – Fantastic Fun and Learning – Kathys Cluttered Mind – Toddler Approved – Growing Book by Book – Adventures in Mommydom – B-Inspired Mama – The Fairy and The Frog – Edventures with Kids – Learning & Growing the Piwi way – A Gluten Free Journey – Preschool Powol Packets – To The Moon and Back – Our Craft ~N~ Things  – Fresh Farm Adventures  – Are We There Yet? – Afterschool for Smarty Pants
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Summer Reading Programs

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June 12, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Our local libraries have awesome programs this summer!

Do you do special reading programs in summer?

Summer Reading Programs

We love reading, so the incentives are doubly wonderful for us. We get prizes and fun for doing something we love anyway.

Our county libraries have fun planned every afternoon! The theme this summer is Dig Into Reading.

Our first “class” was Dig into Digger Animals. Special Thanks to Shane of Scales and Tales Utah!

Yes, that would be my daughter, Elizabeth, making out with a monitor lizard.

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Everyone was impressed with this albino python.
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We learned how baby crocodiles call their mamas.

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We’re excited to attend the Dig Into Reading each week with Davis County Library.

And the DoD libraries have some fun planned this summer! We’re at Hill AFB and had a dinosaur party last Thursday for the kickoff.

Summer Reading programs:

  • Barnes and Noble Imagination’s Destination Earn free books!
  • Homeschool Buyers Co-op has fun giveaways for readers each week!
  • Scholastic Summer Challenges Earn digital rewards.
  • Sylvan Book Adventure Take online quizzes.
  • BJU Press Summer Reading Program Prizes for 3 different age groups.
  • Read Like a Lutheran from Concordia Publishing House
  • Target Book It Summer
  • Showcase Cinemas Bookworms
  • TD Bank Reading program for a $10 savings account
  • Books A Million Reading Rewards
  • Half Price Books Feed Your Brain
  • Six Flags Read to Succeed
  • HEBuddy Reading Program
  • American Library Association (ALA) Reading Info

What are some of your favorite local reading programs?

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