All about coral reefs.....

Goober announced the other day that he would like to go to the Great Barrier Reef!  

As much as I would love to fulfill this request... 

for my benefit as much as his.... it isn't happening anytime soon.

How about learning all about coral reefs?  

Would that satisfy your curiosity in the meantime?  

The answer was a disappointed yes... so I jumped all over that!

Luckily it doesn't hurt my feelings to put together another science unit... 

 Here is how we do it:

 1. Read a chapter or two of a related book

2. Complete one or two lapbook elements per day

3.  Watch some great videos and documentaries

4. Assemble the lapbook

5. Finish off with a great 'fun' movie night!

My favourite free lapbook website (Homeschool share) set us up with a perfect lapbook!

Coral Reef Animal Lapbook

Here are the books we used:

Magic School Bus Chapter Book- The Fishy Field Trip

 

Coral Reef: Around the Clock with the Animals of the Ocean

DK Eyewitness Books: Fish 

Usborne- First encyclopedia of seas and oceans

And any other great books you can find at your local library!

Here are some of the great videos we watched: 

Crash Course Kids- The Life Hydrologic

Scishow- White sand beaches

It's not a science unit without a Sir David Attenborough documentary.....

Great Barrier Reef

Here is a sample of the finished lapbook!

Movie night- Finding Nemo of course!

Enjoy discovering coral reefs!

Book Spine Poetry

April is National Poetry Month in Canada... did you know that? 

I did not.... but while I was raving about the cool poetry project I was thinking of doing with the kids I was schooled by our local librarian!

As you have probably figured out by now, I am not a language arts type of person... 

sure we read and write but beyond that, I'm kinda hopeless!!

Luckily there are great free resources out there... I rediscovered this website the other day.. a free site with tips and poetry lessons for kids?!?!  Fantastic!

Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4Kids

There was a great post about creating book spine poetry.... right up our alley! 

 So we gathered a ridiculous number of books from our unnatural book collection and went to work... 

The kidlets had a blast and came up with some neat poems... what a great perspective!!  

We loved this... I highly suggest you try it out!!  

The only downside was the massive clean up of books when we were done...lol ;)