#unit studies

Adult books about country music are many but not really appropriate for a kid. Sigh. This kid is lucky I love her because this has been the most irritating topic to try and research and my Amazon algorithm is completely fucked and is now showing me gross religious kid books I am zero percent interested in.

How We Build Unit Studies

Unit studies are a fun way to pick a topic that your child is interested in and base all your schooling around that. Some families exclusively do unit studies as their way to home educate. As you might be aware, we typically use the Charlotte Mason method of education (though we aren’t purists). We have found a wonderful curriculum that works well for us. However, sometimes my daughter becomes so…

I am going to record all of our units so I can look back and see what isn’t working. After doing our latest unit I have learned B just isn’t ready for long sections. Picture books are still the way to go. Here are the ones we have done so far:

- Prehistoric man

- Cats

- Egypt

I didn’t take pictures of those units but I will going forward. I look for books, videos, and websites on the subject, then we just choose whatever will work that day. Inventions and Engineering was a unit topic requested by B.

Books that worked:

Not pictured but well loved: Papa’s mechanical fish

I’m not going over ever title but our favorites were:

- The Most magnificent thing (she requested this one multiple times)

- Awesome Engineering Activities for Kids

- The inventions scribble book

Books that didn’t work for us:

Most of these are really great books that were just over B’s level right now. The George Washington Carver book could probably be a whole unit study it itself, it had a ton of activities in it. I will hopefully come back to these when she is older.

We also watched the following on CuriosityStream:

- The Wright Brothers: Bravery

- American Icons: Tom Edison

PBS Kids:

- Xavier Riddle episodes on Tesla and Newton

From Seed to Plant Life Cycle Unit Study #NatureBookClub

The theme for Nature Book Club this month is Life Cycles. Something as simple as growing a plant from a seed is an excellent way to teach your kids about the life cycle of a plant. Since the beginning of the gardening season is upon us, I thought we would start a Plant Life Cycle Unit Study for our Nature Book Club studies.

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Little Known Facts About St. Patrick and His Influence

When I arrived in the U.S. in 1989, I’d never heard of St. Patrick. This new land, had a lot of strange customs, but none compared to pinching anyone not wearing green. What was even weirder, was that though every teacher had decided to participate in the holiday festivities, none discussed St. Patrick or the reason for celebration in class.

With no internet access, no library card, and a huge…

Free Pumpkin Unit Study

The Nature Book Club theme for October is Gourds, Squash, & Pumpkins. We are doing a week-long pumpkin unit study, going to a pumpkin patch, and making pumpkin slime this month!

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Prairie Habitat Unit Study + Notebooking Pages

The theme this month for the Nature Book Club is Prairie Flowers. I have gathered a few resources to put together a Prairie Habitat Unit Study so that we can study prairie flowers and animals.

What is a Prairie?

Facts About the Prairie Biome

Prairie Facts

  Prairie Animals Sounds

    A Prairie Adventure with the Wild Kratts

  Resources for Identifying Prairie Flowers

Prairie Grasses and…

Wildflowers Nature Study {The Nature Book Club + Link Up}

The theme for the month of May in The Nature Book Club is wildflowers. I have been looking forward to this theme and to Spring-time for awhile now so that we could start a Wildflowers Nature Study. I love seeing the tree line and grassy areas around our little farm fill up with pops of color from the wildflowers growing.

Earlier this month our “spring” weather was a little uncooperative with rain…