Today's Lesson: George Washington

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." 
-George Washington

 Today we will be starting a lapbook!  If you do not know what a lapbook is you should Google it in Images and see how this fun, and educational tool looks .  It is essentially a unit study put together like a scrapbook using file folders.   You can find lapbooks on just about every topic, two of my favorite free sites are Homeschool Share and Lapbook Lessons.  Although there are tons of resources online for making lapbooks, I tend to use the elements that I like and combine them, instead of following the model exactly.  I highly encourage this, so that the books are more tailored to your child age and knowledge level.  
I found this cute and easy paper craft, that we will be using on the cover of our lapbook.  Here is a list of links to the other resources we are using:

From Lapbook Lessons:
To write our quote
Lift the flap fact books

From Homeschool Share:
I downloaded the Presidents Day Lapbook, but we will only be using elements from pages 7-10

Videos to watch:
Biography and short video
Short Washington Cartoon - Animated lecture
George Washington's Dentures - interesting and disgusting
George Washington singing his version of "Royals"  - Really cute and educational.  Who knew George Washington could bust a move?
Disney: The American Presidents: George Washington
Liberty's Kids episode 11 "Washington Takes Command"
If you can find a copy, check out Animated Hero Classics" George Washington.  I couldn't find anything streaming online, but I was about to find a copy in my local library system. Also check out these free activity book downloads which we will also be adding to our lapbook.

-Have Fun Learning!

Today's Lesson: Virginia Lapbook

I don't know how the weather is where you live, but today we are having an epic rain, wind and thunderstorm, which is good because we need the rain!  Usually on stormy or snowy day we gather around the fireplace to a read a book, but I thought I'd change things up a bit.  Our lesson on Thomas Jefferson has lasted us all week long due to extenuating circumstances.  We are coming to the end and I thought it would be a great day to make a lapbook on Virginia, home of Jefferson and many others that we have been or will be studying such as Patrick Henry and George Washington.

Here is a list of the materials we will be using and where to get them:

Capitol Classroom:
This site has quite a few different activity books available for free download.  Most deal with Virginia's legislative process but also have some fun state activities as well. Please note page numbers are the book page numbers and will show up differently in PDF.
Your Key to the Virginia General Assembly -  we will be using pages 1, 2, 12-17
The Virginia General Assembly - we will be using pages 2, 20
Virginia House of Delegates Coloring Book - 2-10, omitting some of the content that we are not studying.
Virginia House of Delegates Activity Book -  6-11, omitting some of the content that we are not studying.

Education.com
We used this outlining sheet which we are going to cut up and use for our cover.

-Have Fun Learning!