Zoo project

I designed a new project for the two oldest girls.  They enjoy doing these projects and they learn alot.

Zoo Project

1. Make a detailed map of the zoo.  Include vendors, stores, and animal displays.  Have at least 12 different animals in your zoo.  You can include a petting zoo, garden, pond, etc.

2. Make a zookeepers notebook.  A page for each animal with the following information:

• animal name (include family, species, etc.)
• habitat information
• types of food to feed them
• photo or drawing of the animal

3. Design a poster to display at the zoo:

• an ad for one of the stores or restaurants
• an ad for feeding time
• an ad for a show (sea lions, bird show, etc)

The girls have one month to complete this.  Bug-a-bug has already gotten started on hers.  Next year, we may do an aquarium one.......

Literature project ideas

Need some interesting project ideas for your literature unit?  How about

• poster
• diary entry
• time capsule
• cereal or toy designed after the book
• newspaper article or paper
• photo album
• screenplay
• story quilt
• comic strip
• time line
• travel brochure design a game
• write a new ending
• paper dolls made of the characters

Hope these ideas help you out!

Study helps

Here's a little article I posted in our homeschool group newsletter containing some different ideas to do with your studies. If you have any others to add, I'd love to hear them.

Sometimes, its difficult to think of new projects or ideas to stimulate your child’s learning. Workbooks get very boring after a while, even to us parents! Here’s some ideas to help you with your studies:

1. Salt dough map
2. Make costumes
3. Do a puppet show or play
4. Have a themed dinner
5. Create a power point presentation
6. Make a lapbook or notebook
7. Build a diorama
8. Build a time machine to travel back into time
9. Create a collage
10. Have your child invent a game that’s based on their learning
11. Make a diary entry based on the person that your studying
12. Design a new cereal
13. Make a travel brochure
14. Make a time line
15. Make a comic strip
16. Make a newspaper