To avoid some of that post-christmas burn-out, I have decided to spice up our homeschool a bit with a fun unit study on the olympics.
I started with two very cheap resources from Currclick.com, and some other free resources, and we are on the way to a fun 2 weeks of olympic learning!!
Currclick:
- The Winter Olympics 2010 Lapbook with Study Guide
I like the lapbook template that comes with this unit. It cost me around $5 cdn, and now we're all set to make a big lapbook with little preparation on my part, besides buying the materials.
- The 2010 Winter Olympic Games Unit
I chose this one because it has a 13 day schedule, all planned out with different things to learn about each day, and many suggestions for websites, movies and books.
This website is a fabulous resource for free curriculum, information, stories and ideas for learning about the 2010 olympics. We are going to use their 'Paint the Twon Red' pack which includes a great bullentin board set-up for keeping track of the medals won, the events that are running and our favorite atheletes for each day.
We will also wander over to the Playgoround: games, videos, stories... all for kids
There is so much on this website that we haven't touched yet, but so far we are using:
- complete schedules of events to decide which ones we want to watch
- the official mascots: this is a fabulous website with videos, stories, games, ecards you can make etc..
In fact, we had so much fun with the mascots, that elizabeth decided to design her very own mascots for the olympic games:
Super Blue is a bluebird
1 comment:
That sounds like a lot of fun. Maybe I will look into doing this unit study too. My kids would like it a lot, I am sure.
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