Lighthouses Week 1 (Workbox Wednesday & Massachusetts state study)

We are finally back to the grind!  We started a lighthouse unit last week.  The core of which is coming from the Unit Study with Amanda Bennett – Lighthouses Unit.
We have also added in activities from the following books:

PRINTABLES:

To go along with the USAB unit; I made some 3 part cards with pictures of several of the lighthouses referenced in the curriculum.  I also made lighthouse anatomy cards. 
The Massachusetts state cards vary from my original state cards, in that these are 3 part cards; I’ll eventually change the previous cards to this format as well, I like it much better!   

Get them by clicking on the links below:

*Lighthouse 3 part cards
*Lighthouse anatomy cards (color the cards to correspond)
*Massachusetts 3 part cards
*Water Toob 3 part cards (the ship is from the pirates toob, the rest correspond with the Safari LTD In The Water Toob)

I made writing sheets with our weekly words at this site, and we practiced looking them up in the dictionary.  We use the Merriam-Webster Children's Dictionary

Now onto the activities:

Z’s boxes (33mos)

Alphabet Box – L

Pattern Blocks – boat

Water Toob and Boat Cards

Letter L cut out and do-a-dot marker

Land, Water and Air sorting cards from Montessori Print Shop

Building a lighthouse with stacking cups, and building boats with blocks on blue felt (water)


Discovery Bottles (marbles in shampoo, marbles in karo syrup and blue water with oil for a wave machine)

C’s boxes (5yo, K)


Math – U-See (we switched math programs and really like it so far!)

Designing day marks for our own lighthouses (from the Lighthouse Activity book)

Anatomy Cards (you can see here how I colored the parts to correspond)

Not pictured:
Lighthouse 3 part cards
Words of the day writing sheets
Handwriting without tears
Book of Mormon Stories
The Friend Magazine – January 2012
No Ordinary Parents Guide to teaching reading
Boston Light Coloring Page
Massachusetts 3 part cards

Fun for everyone

Shell Photo Frames

How does a lighthouse light blink?

How to light and care for an oil lamp, the work of a lighthouse keeper.

I cut these lighthouses with my circuit machine, they glued the day marks onto them.

Family movie night:  Pete’s Dragon

Making Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies – Massachusetts State Cookie (or if you prefer their state dessert is Boston Crème Pie and their state Muffin is Corn Muffin!)

Books and stories we read

Articles from The Friend Magazine (an LDS publication)

Keeper’s of the Light
Lynae Ashe of Pultney Point Lighthouse, Malcolm Island, British Columbia, Canada

For more lighthouse ideas, stay tuned for further weeks and/or check out my Pinterest lighthouse board

Other Lighthouse Units:
Week 1 - Massachusetts
Week 2 - Oregon

Week 3 - North Carolina

Week 4 - Maine

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