World Wide Wanderings: Japan Wrap Up

We wrapped up our Japan Unit by all coming together to complete the lapbooks with all of the little bits and pieces the kids had been working on.

Designing the covers for their lapbooks. The only requirement here was that the cover image at least had to relate to Japan in some way. They ended up with maps, some Mt Fuji scenes, sushi, flags and carp fish.

Most of the kids have never completed a lapbook before and it's been awhile for my kids too, so doing it all together was a good exercise for them.

The covers from my kids lapbooks

And the inside finished pieces. We may add a couple of photographs, especially of the crafts they did since they won't fit inside a lapbook.

Look how proud they all are of their finished work, grins from ear to ear!

For something special, we took the kids out to a sushi train, they loved it and it got them trying even more sushi varieties too!

My Japan Board on Pinterest
Mini Booklets from Homeschool Share

• Pangea

• If The World Were A Village

• Continents & Oceans

• Countries Visited By Continent

                 Asia
                       Japan

              South America

Sketch Tuesday - Robots - Our First Time

Have you seen Sketch Tuesday?

Each Tuesday a new theme is posted, everyone has a week to complete their sketches and send them in.

Just for fun! Just for the love of drawing!

We are hoping to participate this year, although it may not be every single week.

This week the theme was 'Robots'.

It's interesting to marvel at the differences and similarities between the children's drawings. The yellow robot is actually quite small,

Whereas, even though yellow in colour, this guy fills the entire page.

Delicate fingers for lots of grabbing on this robot come martian.


Visit Sketch Tuesday to see loads more!

Easing Into 2013

With Daddy heading back to work this week, after the Christmas/New year break it seemed like a good time for us to start getting back into a routine of sorts.

Very slowly though, schools here are still on holidays for another few weeks, so whilst we actively completed something every day, things are still very relaxed around here.

Here's a glimpse of our first week of easing back into things:

I had misplaced this book, we started reading whilst we were away ages ago, but after finding it again it was decided that we would pick it up where we had left off.

We've started working through the Goops, a quaint book of manners printed sometime in the early 1900s. The kids are giggling their way through at all of the antics of the Goops though and comparing them to their own manners.

We made a start on our veggie patch and have enjoyed a small amount of planting. All 3 of them enjoy getting their hands dirty!

We wrapped up our World Wide Wanderings Japan this week too. I have a post coming on the wrap up.

Whilst studying Japan we realised that a Volcano Unit was in order. We kicked that off this week, with reading, documentaries, art activities and a few mini books.

I can't believe Valentines is looming just around the corner, everyone was keen to get started on some fun 'lovely' activities!

There was also plenty of time spent in the pool and hanging out with friends, enjoying the long hot summer days!

All in all I'm pretty happy with our first week of easing back into things.