Our Week in Review - First Week of School 2014

Our first week back to school!! WOOO HOOO!!! It was a short week, only 3 days but we managed to get quite a bit accomplished!

New pajamas for a new school year!!!
The tutorial for the nightgown can be found under Little Birdie Nightgown. I'll be posting the tutorial for Colin's chevron pjs next week! 

Breakfast on our first day was Funfetti pancakes. SOOOO GOOD!! 

We built da Vinci's ornithopter! This is from a book I bought at Five Below. We tried taking it outside to see how well it would fly but a piece got stuck and we couldn't get it to work. :( 

While reading about da Vinci we learned that he was fascinated with birds. We looked around the yard for a feather to sketch. Usually there are feathers all over the place but we had a very strong storm the night before. All I could find was that sad little feather. 

Then Cailey and Colin painted their bird pictures. 

We also built a siege engine. I found the kit at Barnes & Noble for $6 and I couldn't pass it up! The drawbridge and catapult really work! 

I found a set of word puzzles for $3 at Target and thought they would be a fun way for Colin to play with words. 


Here are a few other pics, not necessarily from this week but more like a few weeks. ;)

A cool looking moth I found on our kitchen door. 

We live in the city but you wouldn't be able to tell from all of the wildlife around us. This is a falcon that keeps coming to our yard looking for chipmunks to eat! He missed out that day. 


How was YOUR week???

Leonardo da Vinci Unit Study Resources

Our first topic this year will be Leonardo da Vinci. We will be using this for science, history and art! LOVE it when one topic covers so many areas. Makes everything so much simpler. ;)

Here is a list of the books that I know we will be using. Afterward I post a larger list of books and ebooks.

The books should be easily found at Amazon or your local library. 














This one has 21 activities!!





This one has a kit to build your own ornithopter.





Those are the books we are planning to use. I will probably add one or two free Kindle books to the list, as well.



















Joshua borrowed this from the library one year and really enjoyed it. He loved the activities!



























All printables are free unless marked with $$$

Artist Cards and Activities - Pinay Homeschooler

Artist Cards and Worksheets - ESL Printables

Coloring Page - Art History About.com

Coloring Page - Super Coloring

Coloring Page and Worksheets - Making Art Fun

Lapbook for Leonardo's Horse - Homeschool Share

Mini Unit Study w/Printables - DIY Homeschooler

Notebooking Page - Homeschool Helper Online (scroll down)

Notebooking Pages - Practical Pages

Reading Comp Lesson and Worksheet - Instructor Web

Worksheet - Easy Science for Kids

Worksheets - Education.com

Worksheet and Activities - Crayola

Worksheets and Activities - Garden of Praise (scroll down)

Worksheets and Info - Euroclub Schools


$$$

CurrClick

Teachers Pay Teachers (Some FREE)









Activities - Education.com

Activities - Museum of Science

Activities - Squidoo

Biography.com - Full Episode

Complete Works 

Drawings of Leonardo

Game - Museum of Science

Info - Da Vinci's Life

Info - The Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci

Info - Live Science

Info - Museum of Science

Info Links - Social Studies for Kids

Interactive Info and Quiz - Turtle Diary

Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans - Search PlanIt

Unit Study and Links - Diary of 1

Videos - Watch Know Learn

YouTube - Documentary

YouTube - Great Minds

YouTube - Song

YouTube - Time Warp Trio - Part 1



There you go! I hope it's enough to get you started! :D
We'll be starting our study on Tuesday.

HAVE FUN HOMESCHOOLING!!!!!!