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We are going to continue with math and phonics during the summer. I asked the girls what else they would like to learn about this summer and here is the list:
Flowers
Moose
Guatemala
Bats
St. Rose of Lima
Other than reading books about these topics, what else can I do? I have no idea where to start. I'd like the girls to have something to remember our studies with, but a "report" doesn't sound like much fun. Any suggestions?
Thanks!!
Jennifer
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JSchaaf wrote:
I asked the girls what else they would like to learn about this summer and here is the list:
Flowers
Moose
Guatemala
Bats
St. Rose of Lima
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For studying flowers, you could buy (or check out from the library) some field guides for identifying wildflowers in your area and go on weekly nature walks, identifying the flowers you find and perhaps drawing or painting them in a nature journal. You could make pressed flowers. There are all kinds of neat projects you can do with these. Klutz publishes a book on pressing flowers that has lots of ideas. Check out your library, too. You could start a little flower garden at home. If you don't have room for a garden, you can grow flowers in large flower pots outside.
For studying bats, you could make a bat house and then observe their behavior, maybe keep your observations in your nature journal.
Those are my ideas!
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Jennifer,
How about with the flowers they could press some flowers, also sketch, draw and paint flowers. Then these pages could go into your notebook; we have a yearly display folder that all keepable work they do goes into, gives them something to look back on 
I'm remembering your girls are fairly young still? Narrations on the books you read, dictated to you , also picture narrations perhaps with a sentence or two, otherwise not. Guatemala - could include mapwork.
I'll think some more and get back to you, Alice probably has some great ideas for notebooking for Rose of Lima 
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I made a confirmation gift recently for one of my goddaughters who took the name of St Rose of Lima - I printed, I think, every possible picture I could find of St Rose on the internet when I did an image search and did up a book containing them all with prayers and her life story - maybe your children would enjoy doing something similar and then have them try to identify all the similar symbolic images used in them all and what they mean.
I have tried to do that also with other saints and not found as many as I did with Rose, so she is certainly well represented by paintings, stain-glass windows & statues! (It was a google search)
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We did a unit on bats a few summers back and enjoyed it so much! Around San Antonio (Isn't that where you are?) there are lots of Mexican free-tailed bats. (National Geographic has a great article. The Bat Patrol radar map is especially neat.) Bracken Cave, northeast of SA, is home to the largest colony in the world (over 20 million). It's owned by Bat Conservation Int, and currently you pretty much have to be a member to tour, but you can see an online narration here. A great maternity cave in your area is the Eckert James River Bat Cave. We've been there and will go back some day. Warning: getting to the cave can be scary (you must ford a river), but it's worth it if the river's low!
A Bat Unit study
Echolocation Game (like Marco Polo): One blindfolded child (bat) walks around saying "Beep! Beep!" while other children (insects) respond "Buzz! Buzz!" The bat tries to tag the insects. Tagged insects sit out at bat cave until only one insect remains.
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Canon has lots of papercrafts to print out and color/glue. This one has a moose.
Enchanted Learning has some moose pages too. And there are some cute moose crafts and ideas at Danielle's Place and an edible moose at Family Fun.
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Definitely search around Enchanted Learning for all of your topics. You'll find flower parts to diagram and I'm sure you'll find plenty on bats.
The Solution Site has 5-part units that you can use in full or pick apart and the search can be narrowed down to keywords and grade levels.
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A lapbook would be fun.
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Jennifer,
Just thinking of ideas of St. Rose of Lima. After reading about her...try to implement some things in her life to make her story come alive with all the senses. Do some research on a little culture from Peru. Lima...are lima beans from there? What is the geography, terrain, climate? Similar to where you live? How far away is Peru from you?
Part of her story has her rubbing her face with pepper and lye to ruin her complexion. I wouldn't recommend the girls doing that, but perhaps smelling and tasting some hot peppers experiment to see how it would hurt the skin and make her "ugly." And lye used to be for soap making, so make some rose soap. Find out what lye is, how to make it, how caustic it is...
Make a rose crown. Or at least study some roses. Have the girls examine the thorns. Imagine making a crown (that would hurt first of all), but then putting on one's head. It's beautiful to everyone else, but painful to St. Rose.
And study a little more about Dominicans, especially the 3rd order Dominicans. Although pictured with a veil, St. Rose was not a nun or religious, she was a tertiary.
Those are just some thoughts that immediately come to mind...
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Oh, some links:
Patron Saints Index
Domestic Church St. Rose of Lima
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cathhomeschool wrote:
A Bat Unit study
Echolocation Game (like Marco Polo): One blindfolded child (bat) walks around saying "Beep! Beep!" while other children (insects) respond "Buzz! Buzz!" The bat tries to tag the insects. Tagged insects sit out at bat cave until only one insect remains.
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Cool, Janette!
About this book:
Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats
Author: Ann Earle
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, 1995
Grade Level: 2-5
Synopsis:
This text is lively and the animated illustrations illuminate the world of bats. The information dispels common myths and reveals the vital role bats play in our environment.
We love this book and it has directions at the end to make your own Bat house (cue the batman music, baby!)!
I can't wait till we own our own home and we can have some of these on the property. We were at a friend's for BBQ a little over a week ago and they live in the foothills of the Sierra...We saw bats! Now, I'm trying to remember what kind...the ole brain just ain't what she used to be ...
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MacBeth...or anyone...
Since bats eat mosquitoes can West Nile Virus be transmitted to them? We recently studied poison darts frogs and I'm wondering if the phenomenon of the food cycle is the same...
Thank you...
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Jennifer,
Why don't you tie St. Rose of Lima into a flower study, afterall, she's named after one! You could tie that in with the flowers in Mary gardens, you could learn about roses, about heritage roses and wild roses vs. the new types of roses.
Kelly in FL
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Hi Jennifer,
I remember we loved the page on Guatemala in our world geography book! What about looking at the Mayan peoples and cities? Or what about the crafts of Guatemala? Here is a coloring book about Mayan crafts and cultural traditions and a Mayan Kids page. Another Guatemala Kids Culture Center here.
It is mostly a Roman Catholic country I believe; here is a page on Guatemalan saints days.
There's probably a video about the Mayan civilzation (for kids) ... I remember Matt Lauer from the Today show did a show from there once and I was fascinated! A lapbook would be fun ... maps, crafts, folk stories/ legends, foods. Here is a book on Mayan Heiroglyphics and another on Mayan folklore.
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THANK YOU!
I certainly wasn't thinking outside the box-these are some terrific ideas and resources. I'm thinking we may have to trim our list...We may do moose this summer since we'll be up north, bats in the late summer when we return to San Antonio, St. Rose and flowers in the fall, and then Guatemala over the winter while we get ready for the baby. There's no way we could go in depth on all those topics over the summer! I'm getting excited to do something different-next I'll be asking about notebooks and lapbooks.
Jennifer
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