after the bust of trying to do the Knights and Castles lapbook for the lad (as is) we decided to try the outer space one instead. This seems a better fit for us (which is what I had originally thought). This is a lapbook done by A journery through learning.
We had no complaints, even for doing copywork. But we did do more than the product asked for.
When reading through the creation lesson it had vocab words underlined so I just asked the lad...what does this mean, what about that?
Then I asked...do you know the sign language for day? no.. they have that mom? Yes, indeed, so I showed him. This led to him asking what the sign would be for night. We found that over at the American Sign Language site.
We had no complaints, even for doing copywork. But we did do more than the product asked for.
When reading through the creation lesson it had vocab words underlined so I just asked the lad...what does this mean, what about that?
Then I asked...do you know the sign language for day? no.. they have that mom? Yes, indeed, so I showed him. This led to him asking what the sign would be for night. We found that over at the American Sign Language site.
This pic comes from www.answers.com (click on the image to go direct to site)
Then we came across page two that showed how the world gets bigger and bigger. The world revolves around the sun, which is part of the milky way galaxy which is just one of several galaxies which is part of the whole universe.
the lad didn't understand what a galaxy was so we looked it up
gal·ax·y /ˈgaləksē/Noun
the lad didn't understand what a galaxy was so we looked it up
gal·ax·y /ˈgaləksē/Noun
- A system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction.
- The galaxy of which the solar system is a part; the Milky Way.
With the next question being: where is the sun in the milky way? So we looked that up as well. :)
Mom, where is the sun in the milky way?
Rather cool eh? All the things one can learn.
we had fun looking for images of the universe, the earth and the milky way galaxy. We talked about the differences in the images and WHY they might be different. We had quite the discussion on how they could have pictures of the whole universe because that would be really hard to do as "BUT MOM, we are PART of the universe so how can we get out of it to take a picture??" (do you have an answer to that one?)
we had fun looking for images of the universe, the earth and the milky way galaxy. We talked about the differences in the images and WHY they might be different. We had quite the discussion on how they could have pictures of the whole universe because that would be really hard to do as "BUT MOM, we are PART of the universe so how can we get out of it to take a picture??" (do you have an answer to that one?)
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