We love doing projects on things which interest us all. Sometimes we'll do one as or after we read a book, or about something we've learnt about in history which we want to discover more about or about an animal etc.
The Civil Rights Movement
This has been a fascinating project. We read these books:
We loved listening to these songs and made up some new verses for them:
We made a timeline:
These were useful websites: Rosa Parks and Brain Pop
Leonardo da Vinci
We've been using the lapbook course from here alongside Mystery of History course and these books
to study Leonardo's life and works.
We copied Leonardo's mirror writing and learnt how to write secret messages using grape juice, water and baking soda (see here).
Memory Verses
We learnt the "love verses" from 1 Corinthians 13. We learnt it over a few weeks- each week they would each add to our wall display a new heart they had designed with the next part of "love is" written on it. (We also learnt the easier ones in K.)
Faces
We made face pictures using different coloured and textured paper. This was a good activity they could do whilst I read to them:
Faberge Eggs
What you need: eggs, darning needle/drawing pin, bowl, glue, paint, sharpies, gems/decorations, air hardeing clay
What you do:
1. Make a hole with a pin in each end of the egg, one a little bigger than the other.
2. Hold the egg over a bowl, larger hole facing down.
3. Blow into the egg so the insides come out.
4. Hold the egg under running water to clean it out then dry it.
5. Decorate it with glue and gems, paint or sharpies.
6. Make a stand for the egg with clay.
(L cut open an egg, painted it then put a clay chick inside - see photo!)
Art
We used this you tube lesson to learn how to paint sunflowers:
A_Z Alliterative Poem
This was a fun 'together exercise'. With a word list we worked through the alphabet writing a poem using alliteration. It was good for dictionary work and learning new words. Here's part of it:
Redwall
We've just read Redwall by Brian Jacques. It was so good. A story of good v evil, rats v mice. Rats try to take over Redwall Abbey, the home of the mice. It's full of action and the descriptive writing is brilliant. (It is quite violent at times with the descriptions of the fighting but not in a gratuitous way.)
See the photos below for some of the things we did. The other activities included-
*Naming hero and villains
*Identifying quests in the book
*Identifying characters- heroes, villains, comic relief, sage, spies etc
*Venn diagram- good v evil characters
*Acts of bravery and cowardice
*Riddles using names
*Riddles about places
penguin books - a website with more ideas
The Civil Rights Movement
This has been a fascinating project. We read these books:
We loved listening to these songs and made up some new verses for them:
We made a timeline:
I've found that cubes are a great way of recording information: a fact/picture on each side. (We used these for recording Henry VIII's wives!):
Some art work:
We love this poem:
Leonardo da Vinci
We've been using the lapbook course from here alongside Mystery of History course and these books
to study Leonardo's life and works.
We made paint out of egg yolk and chalk Leonardo-style which was so much fun and I was amazed how successful it was (some art projects are a bit of a flop!). The colours were beautifully vibrant. I got the idea from here.
We learnt about drawing using perspective using this you tube lesson.
We learnt about perspective when studying the amazing painting The Last Supper and learnt loads from this Khan Academy lesson about the painting.
We did our own take of Mona Lisa using this printout.
Memory Verses
We learnt the "love verses" from 1 Corinthians 13. We learnt it over a few weeks- each week they would each add to our wall display a new heart they had designed with the next part of "love is" written on it. (We also learnt the easier ones in K.)
Faces
We made face pictures using different coloured and textured paper. This was a good activity they could do whilst I read to them:
Faberge Eggs
What you need: eggs, darning needle/drawing pin, bowl, glue, paint, sharpies, gems/decorations, air hardeing clay
What you do:
1. Make a hole with a pin in each end of the egg, one a little bigger than the other.
2. Hold the egg over a bowl, larger hole facing down.
3. Blow into the egg so the insides come out.
4. Hold the egg under running water to clean it out then dry it.
5. Decorate it with glue and gems, paint or sharpies.
6. Make a stand for the egg with clay.
(L cut open an egg, painted it then put a clay chick inside - see photo!)
Art
A_Z Alliterative Poem
This was a fun 'together exercise'. With a word list we worked through the alphabet writing a poem using alliteration. It was good for dictionary work and learning new words. Here's part of it:
Anacondas actually have an allergy to alarm clocks and
alcohol.
Armadillos are amazingly arty at Arabic in the Arctic.
Bananas are bait for buffaloes with banjos.
Bob's big belly is filled with bees and bats, so he
was banned from playing the banjo at bedtime.
Conductors' cameras click constantly.
Dan the Dingo shoots darts in the dark in Denmark.
Redwall
We've just read Redwall by Brian Jacques. It was so good. A story of good v evil, rats v mice. Rats try to take over Redwall Abbey, the home of the mice. It's full of action and the descriptive writing is brilliant. (It is quite violent at times with the descriptions of the fighting but not in a gratuitous way.)
See the photos below for some of the things we did. The other activities included-
*Naming hero and villains
*Identifying quests in the book
*Identifying characters- heroes, villains, comic relief, sage, spies etc
*Venn diagram- good v evil characters
*Acts of bravery and cowardice
*Riddles using names
*Riddles about places
penguin books - a website with more ideas
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| Front covers |
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| Paintings |
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| Research of animals in the book and drawings |
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| Drawing silhouettes and writing characteristics |
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| Maps of Redwall |
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| Artwork |
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| Acrostic poem |
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| They each made a noticeboard for Redwall Abbey |
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| We made a board game together- it was so much fun and they love playing it over and over again! |
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| They re-enacted the Redwall wars with bows and arrows they made |
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| Archery practise |
Never heard of this book. Will have to have a read with T x
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