Workbox Wednesday–Animal Trackers Club Lessons with #Giveaway

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Welcome to Workbox Wednesday!  If you use workboxes, tot trays, or anything similar, feel free to post a link to your blog post or a picture (pictures can be from facebook, but please make sure they are PUBLIC so we can see them, or use a host like photobucket.com to get a URL for your photo) that shows WHAT IS IN YOUR BOXES!
Also appropriate:  Free Printables or other fun activities that could easily be used or adapted for workboxes! 

Please visit my co-host at Tots and Me and Line Upon Line Learning

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Did you see my Animal Trackers Club Review Post?  This week I’m debuting my Subscriber Only Freebie that we are using with workboxes this month for our Animal Trackers Club!

In addition we are featuring Montessori Print Shop’s African Bundle and Africa Pin Map Flags! 

Both sponsor’s have graciously offered to provide product for a giveaway to my readers!  I am so excited to be able to offer 2 month’s of Animal Trackers Subscription and the Montessori Print Shop African Bundle and Africa Pin Map. 

Get this printable pack at my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

WORKBOXES

Here are the workboxes I have set up with the FREE Printable Pack I made and the MPS printables.  Additionally the items from the Animal Trackers club would also be great workboxes – The first box has matching cards, worksheets and a sticker art page! 

(L)African Flags from Montessori Print Shop African Pin Map Flags


(R)African Geography Folder from Montessori Print Shop Africa Bundle

(L)3 Part Animal Cards from Montessori Print Shop Africa Bundle
I also used plastic figures from African Village Toob and African Nature Tube and some other stray animals we had.

GIVEAWAY

Giveaway is open to US Residents ages 18+.
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Disclaimer:  I received a discount on this product in exchange for featuring it in my post.  All opinions I have expressed are my own or those of my family.  I am disclosing this in accordance with FTC Regulations.

Weekly Wrap Up (Preschool & First Grade, Leaves & Rome)

This was our last ‘official’ week of the the 2012-2013 School year!  This week actually took place the week 7/22….but with reviews and vacations…it’s going up this week. 

What we did this week:

Circle Time:

We have been using the Mona Lisa Fine Art Page, so we read the book Leonardo and the Flying Boy

Science:
We watched Rock and Learn Life Science (the plant portions)
Magic School Bus Gets Planted


Took advantage of our FREE Trial with Discovery Education Streaming Plus (available through 8/31) and watched a few videos about Leaves, Stems, Roots and Plants in General. 

Used these Leaf Shape Cards from Montessori Print Shop to classify a variety of leaves we found in our yard and made leaf observations using the observation checklist from 2TeachingMommies, we also used the labeling the leaf diagram.

Celery and Food Coloring Experiment

History:
We continued with Ancient Rome, listening to SOTW 1 (as per Pandia Press Ancient History Odyssey I)
We watched Pompeii:  The Last Day
Colosseum:  A Gladiator’s Story

Cole finished up the previous weeks book and read Gladiator’s (Usborne)

Other fun books we used this unit:

He made a Roman Leaf Crown

Geography:  Little Passports – Italy – and fittingly the ‘prize’ was basil seeds to plant! 

And for the finale – we took a field trip to the Big Island to see the volcanoes!  What better way to end a unit on Ancient Rome and Pompeii!!  See Field Trip Friday for more details!

Weekly Workboxes–Leaves

Montessori Print Shop – FREE Fall Cutting Strips (Leaves)

2 Teaching Mommies Leaves Unit – Using Fake leaves and dice

Hanging Leaves on a clothesline in numerical order (1-10), found HERE

2 Teaching Mommies Leaves Unit – Leaf Patterns – using 3D foam leaves

2 Teaching Mommies - Magnet Sheet

Counting Leaves with Numbered Leaf cards from 1+1+1=1 L is for Leaves

2 Teaching Mommies – Spelling Leaves – Match capitals or match lowercase to capitals using Magnet tiles. 

Color Matching File Folder from Filefolderfun.com

Shape Matching from 2 Teaching Mommies

Leaf Sorting using 3D Foam Leaves bought from Oriental Trading

Other activities:
Science:  Leaf Observation, Shape Comparison
Art:  Leaf Rubbings

First Grade - Ancient Greece and Life Cycles

Here is what we did fun this week!

We are studying Ancient Greece, and he got an Ancient Greece: Treasure Chests , filled with lots of really cool things.  They are hard to find, but I was able to score an unopened one for a decent price!

Cutting and pasting History Pockets: Ancient Civilizations  Both of the items are suggested resources for Pandia Press - History Odyssey Ancients I.

Frog Life Cycle and Metamorphosis - Complete (4 steps) v/s Incomplete (3 steps)

The cards are from Montessori Print Shop - Toddler Bundle (same I used for my tots)

We are also currently working on 2 products for review...so stay tuned!

C read:

I just recently purchased a wide range of chapter books for C in hopes to peak his independent reading interests a bit more (he likes to read but tends to shy towards the easier books, even though he can read harder books)....he has thumbed through a few, but has yet to actually read them...time will tell.  During the school week, I put several book choices that go with our topic for him to choose from for that week, some he reads quickly...others he takes the entire week (only reads a chapter a day).  I leave that to him, but encourage him to try and read at least 2 chapters.  

We read:

and they are almost done with the first Percy Jackson!

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