Magic Tree House: Ghost Town at Sundown

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Part of our summer reading. 
We are c completing our Magic Tree House Book #20
"Ghost Town at Sundown"

This is a resource that is excellent if you decide to use it 
to have your students retell the story. 

First we narrate orally what the book was about. 
Then,
we proceed by writing on each mini book in the book 
These mini books are singled out by chapters.

Then, we can retell the story by reading our lap book 
out-loud one more time. 
Narration and writing main ideas are very 
important to have your kids remember 
stories and use their vocabulary. 


We love getting crafty on our projects and so we have aged everything
using our favorite "shoe polish"

We colored the inside of the lap book and also
aged it. 


Because this is a book about Mustangs horses. 
Some of the inside mini books have horses. 
However, each mini book is designed according to their respective chapters.



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Our Australia Unit

We are enjoying learning about Australia.

This unit is 53 pages long and it comes with an informational
text and comprehension questions.

If you purchase the entire unit you will be getting a lap book as well.
However, I like providing lap books separate so you can
pair with any other book on Australia.

You will have your kids learning about the country including 
the animals, the national symbols, the weather, time and aborigines.

Our Aborigine Body Painting



Download Entire Unit
  (with informational text and lap book included)


Some Extra Activities we did

While learning about the Aborigines we did some body painting.
We also made a passport because we intend to use it for every
country that we learn about.
You may download that for free down below.

Put together the Australian Continent.

Australia;s Flashcards






More of our day at this Unit Study
Making a Passport to Australia

Online Resources you can use 

Animal Videos


Emu Characteristics ( Online Article on this birds)
Dingo  (Online Article)
Frilled Lizard (Online Article)
Koalas for Kids (video)
Koalas Characteristics (online article)'
Kangaroo Characteristics (online article)
kangaroo Dundee (inside the life of a rescued kangaroo) about 1hr long
Wallaby characteristics (article from national geographic)
Platypus (video)
Platypus characteristics (online documentaries)
Platypus ( a long documentary)
Wombat (online article)
Wombat Video
Kookaburra (online article national geographic)
Kookaburra (video)

Documentaries

One hour long so hold on to your seats.


Crafty Ideas



I Share my board 

We read the book Wombat Stew and added this extra activity to our day

This is our lesson after reading the Book 
The Wombat Stew by Marcia K. Vaughn 
This is a great book
 to add if your kids are in early elementary level.

Here are some activities we did extra for this book

I made a questions sheet and had Daniel find the answers in the wombat stew. A fun way of relating to the reading.

Making a Wombat Stew like in the story....YUMMMMMMMYYYY!!!!!!!


Online Painting Resources

brisbanekids.com : In this site you can download several different projects for your kids to try and paint.


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Bats Unit of Study

After visiting Carlsbad Cavern 


we put together an informational text about Bats.
In this download I also included an interactive notebook.

The text narrates Daniel's  experience as he
learns about Bats. 

Daniel, the main character, is a boy, nine years old who is Junior Ranger

With funny jokes and lots of hands on activities this unit promises to be 
fun and full of learning. 

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Our day started with reading and finishing our reader comprehension questions.
Then we made some bats out of paper and wrote on their bellies different
facts to remember. 



Moving on to our interactive notebook which we completed in no time. 
Not only was this easy but also it was a good way for my son to get 
creative and since we love coloring and drawing, this was a success.


As you can see my son added a few extras with the sharpies. 
He drew the stalactites and stalagmites. 
Then, put some extra space to add notes of his own.


I am not really concern in keeping our interactive notebook the way I want it
but really just for my son to feel it is his own unique journal. 


On this picture he decided to draw some fruit tree and on the reader above you can 
see he got creative in drawing Mega and Micro bats.

Overall this activity was very fun to complete.
It marked the end of our trip to Carlsbad and also a way 
of keeping the memory of our experience there.


We also went ahead and decorated our home school classroom with 
some of these Bats.
If you wish to use them in your project you may download them at 
my TPT Shop

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Art in our Homeschooling

This summer we are starting our art journal.
In it we will consistently keep all of the paintings we have been working on. 

When it comes to art, it is very important not to critizicee to lightly 
because after all your kids are still learning and stretching their
confidence with watercolors.


We were motivated by some youtuve channels that were very handy like the Art Sherpa


When it comes to faces and portrays there is more practice and sketching involved 
before you are able to add color. 
However, I think my son did a pretty good job here.


Some of the paintings were also inspired by Bob Ross and his PBS channel. 
We actually applied the same idea but in a smaller scale and with 
much less awesome brushes that he has.


Overall we have been very inspired to continue our journey with
watercolors and hope to implement our learning to other units as well.

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The Mighty Bison Of North America Unit Study


All of our unit and some of the water color we decided to add. 

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You may also view the video for further instruction and download the 
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We have been consumed with our lesson on bison. 
As we visited Yellow Stone National Park last year, the bison were the first animals we 
encountered. 
So, I have been meaning to put together our lesson on bison and 
what better title than

"The Mighty..............." 

Exactly. It seemed obvious. 

Symbiosis. How animals help each other survive. As the birds offer pest control to the bison they
get protection against predators.

More Pictures of Our Day


The bull head happened without thinking about it. 
Actually, we had already purchased two of these to decorate 
my son's room. 
He loves animals and when we saw these we had to 
have them. 


 This unit will come with reader/comprehension questions
and
of course
a lap book that will be final project of your kiddos.

 Free Resources

Bison Mini Book Foldable

Great for younger kids

Our Interactive Notebook

One side of the nnotebook we have completed already

You may pair these last two activities together.
We have added an extra page to glue it as part of the interactive notebook.

Please note that this interactive notebook has no
table of contents.
It is meant to be that way as we use it more like a
nature journal but for animals.

Painting the mighty bison
in our interactive notebook.



Then adding some color to it


This is a great way to extent our lesson and
correlate it to art.
We also added a poem at the bottom of our
drawing.





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