Julie Andrews’ Treasury | "A Stitch in Time"

March has been a busy month! For Easter, with only a week and a half between it and St. Patrick’s Day, we are doing a family lapbook. Which means another resource entry! Books:

Easter by Trudi Strain Trueit
Piggy Bunny by Rachel Vail
Ollie’s Easter Eggs by Olivier Dunrea
The Easter Bunny’s Assistant by Jan Thomas
Lily’s Easter Party by Crystal Bowman
Easter by Let’s See Library: Holidays
Celebrate Easter by Deborah Heiligman
Julie Andrews’ Treasury for All Season by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton

Worksheets:

3 Digit Easter Subtraction with Education.com
Egg-citing Addition with Education.com
Easter Coordinate Puzzles with Activity Village
Easter Game and Lapbook Printables with Confessions of a Homeschooler
Resurrection Lapbook with Lapbook Lessons
Easter Themed Clock Work with Education.com
Easter Egg Maze with Activity Village
L is for Lily by First School
Easter Subtraction Word Problems with Education.com
Easter Missing Vowels with Education.com
Colour the Egg with Education.com
Word Problems for Easter with Education.com

Crafts

Peter Rabbit Egg Basket with nickjr.com
Handprint Lily with Spoonful.com
Easter Bunny Stand-ups with Education.com
Ressurrection Egg Lapbook Lesson with Sunday School Lady
Weave a Paper Basket with Education.com
Easter Backet Printable by Art For Kids through The Homeschool Classroom

Games

Easter Goodies Game with Education.com

Movie

‘Twas the Night Before Easter with Veggie Tales and the colouring page that goes with
Dinosaur Train Eggstravaganza by PBS kids… not so much Easter but egg and baby related. Lots of fun as it tied in eggs, new birth and our beloved dinsaurs

Printables in General

Joke Mini Book with Activity Village
Easter colouring pages with Activity Village
Easter Sampler with CurrClick
Jellybean Prayer with poem with CurrClick

Helpful information sites

To answer why there is an Easter Bunny with KidCulture
To answer why we dye Easter Eggs with Yahoo! Answers

Videos Ken found us this informative but slightly over the boys’ heads video on Easter traditions. Very interesting but maybe not for the youngest students.

And a picture of two of our lapbook pages! Good luck!

We had a lot of fun with this unit

For all of our Easter resources please refer to the blog entry titled “Easter Resources“.

April 1-2

Not emotional but educational… and more importantly – LAUNDRY!

Looks like an episode out of hoarding but it actually is a week and a half of laundry for 7!

We tricked/convinced the twins to watch half of the first load!

But first… MONDAY… April Fools was a non issue here… except for Anthony (god son) contacting a bunch of people with his joke and getting trouble with his mom. I don’t talk to the kids about it at this point. We have enough problems with behaviours right now, I would rather not tempt fate! BUT we did make our April poster… again talking about spring is still somewhat theoretic but we managed.

April

We started working on our Easter assembly only to RUN OUT of glue stick!!! WHAT??? I could have sworn that I had enough to last a while yet. Which means I probably do but have misplaced where I put them. So instead we started on Wild Kratts… 3 episodes!

Bats

Zebra

Firefly

The boys worked on copywork out of our Julie Andrews’ Treasury – The Easter Bunny by Rupert S. Holland.

Poetry

We also had some Easter games I picked up at the Dollar Tree.

Gaming together

Emanuel got a head start on the penguins with his own two page illustration.

Penguins at play

Tuesday was a Ken at work day, and the kids and I started right on the penguins with Mr. Popper’s Penguins. Again I am going to do the resource page at the end! This was Emanuel’s suggestion, he has always loved penguins best. We had some worksheets and a second book from the library… What’s in the Egg, Little Pip? by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman.