Election Lapbooks!

I had planned on spending about a month studying the elections with my kids. However, a wise friend said that it would just naturally be talked about and we didn't need to stop our regular studies to learn about it. Well, now that election day is here, I realized that we didn't naturally talk about ALL the things that I would want to cover. So, yesterday we started Election Lapbooks and we will be working on them through tomorrow.

Here is the site of the Election Lapbook we are using. She did a GREAT job on making an election lap book and I highly recommend it! The only thing we have added to her book is to make a book that had what the duties of the president are.

Here are the links we have used:
This is a cool little “slide show” type thing that we used for the basis of our studies yesterday

http://www.pocanticohills.org/election/president.htm

We used this for vocab:

http://www.pocanticohills.org/election/words.htm

Here is the main page:

http://www.pocanticohills.org/election/election.htm

it has some fun stuff on it.

We went to each candidates site for their issues.

We got the red and blue states from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states

And here is the Electoral College info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College

Hope this helps someone not have to look up so many links!

We also played "Hail to the Chief" last night which is very fun and quite educational!

I will post pictures of our lapbooks when they are done!

I'm so excited, I just can't hide it...

I TOTALLY revamped what I had planned on doing for next year. I am SO excited about it. It has been bouncing around in my head for the last few weeks and I have been praying about it and I got a WONDERFUL CONFIRMATION of it yesterday. I can't wait to tell you all........


But I can't do it now. ROFL!!

You'll have to wait. heehee.

One month to go

Well we have one month to go for school. Although we usually school all summer long, because of Brittany's mission trip we are taking the month of July off. We are also taking the first few weeks of August off, so we will actually have about 6 weeks of vacation!

I won't know what to do with myself.
Really.
I'm serious.

I do so much better when we are doing school because I have a schedule to follow every day! I am already starting my "to do" list for while we are off school. It mostly consists of planning for next year! LOL. I know it. I am a homeschool addict. I just can't put the books away...

This last month we are finishing up Oklahoma History. Most of the girls' other books we won't finish up "on time" but I am scheduling the school year around their history. Next year we will be doing Ancient History again. We are using From Ancient History: Adam to the Messiah by Robin Sampson of Heart of Wisdom. We started using it last year and I loved it. The books she uses as sources are amazing. I can't wait to start!