My new blog home

You’re cordially invited to join me at my Banquet Table and partake of all the goodies on it!

www.bankwhitt.wordpress.com

All Saints Day is 1 November

• Opportunity to remember your grandparents and those that went before you.
• What is your family’s Christian heritage?
• Chance to retell the family stories and oral traditions of your family (whanau).
• Better than Halloween!

http://livinglessons.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/thespiritoftiofernando.pdf - The Spirit of Tio Fernando by Janice Levy, picture book

- pdf includes lapbooking ideas, suitable for mini-unit study, for homeschoolers – home educators

~ Enjoy!

Here are the various parts of my life:

www.lapbooking.wordpress.com – Lapbooking – presentation folders for school projects or unit studies. Also www.lapbooking.tumblr.com resources and webquests.

www.nzhomeed.wordpress.com – general homeschooling info for NZ

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MigraineHealth/ - forum for women who have migraines

My Husband’s site:

www.2restore.wordpress.com

My children’s (neglected) blogsite:

www.kiwikids.tumblr.com

I’m president of MOPS NZ:

www.mops.org.nz
mother organisation’s huge website: www.mops.org

MUM-e-Mail – free twice-a-month encouragement for mothers of under 6s and their supporters: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MUM-e-Mail/

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This is gathered with some other interesting sites I like
at Crayon “Banquet Times”  – click items down the LHS

Create your own newspaper : http://www.crayon.net/scripts/login.cgi?mode=create

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Keeping occupied!

Kia ora!  

1.

History overview : http://www.newzealandnz.co.nz/maori/

2.

Culture – protocols  (on marae etc) : http://www.maori.org.nz/ - overview
http://www.newzealand.com/travel/about-nz/culture/culture-maori-culture.cfm

3.

Te Reo – language : http://www.nz.com/new-zealand/guide-book/language/maori/
http://www.korero.maori.nz/

4.

Iwi – tribes : http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/maori/guides/iwi_map.htm

5.

Waiata – songs : http://folksong.org.nz/waiata.html
Stick game with music : http://folksong.org.nz/epapa/index.html 

6.

Unit Study overview : http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/maori.html 

7.

Whale Rider :
http://www.moviemusicuk.us/whaleridecd.htm  -   music
The haunting sound in the movie is made by synthesizer but mimics in part a Maori woodwind instrument.
http://www.aotearoa.co.nz/neptunes/putatara.htm   
http://www.carving.co.nz/puoro.html
movie synopsis  -  http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/WhaleRider.pdf

8.

Google images : “nz maori” - takes you to some interesting pages 

9.

Maori astronomy : http://www.astronomynz.org.nz/maori-astronomy/taatai-arorangi-maori-astronomy-2.html - star charts, lunar months, Matariki (new year)

10.

“Maori” in NZ Herald, New Zealand’s largest newspaper - sports and tribal settlements

ALSO … a webquest …http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/maori.html

Hello to everyone interested in Lapbooking :

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lapbooking7up/ and
http://lapbooks.wordpress.com – the brand new Lapbooking 201 site for older students doing lapbooking
are stirring up the lapbooking nest
- encouraging people to write and brag about lapbooking – yay!

To find out more about getting started with Lapbooks :
wade through the pages at : www.lapbooking.wordpress.com – plenty of links, some pics, and generally a one-stop-shop.
Read the comments about it at : http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/eclecticeducation/504975/

http://lapbooking.tumblr.com/ is a series of webquests and a ‘dump site’ for my lapbooking ideas and topics. See RHS for list of topics with links and ideas to get your lapbook underway.

Yahoo groups for Lapbooking include :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lapbooking101/ 
- 271 members, great Q&A, tips and ideas for beginners
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lapbooking7up/ 
- more than doubled in size in a year, 418+, for those lapbooking with teens
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lapbooking/ 
- the huge original group that I joined when it was less than 1/4 the size, 4681+, about 1000 posts per month, search the archives for a gold mine (or 3)
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/lapbookingUK/ 
- 95, sparking back into life again

A few gems among the plethora of LAPBOOKING pages :
http://www.squidoo.com/lapbooking - Jimmie’s pages
http://highland.hitcho.com.au/ 
- forms, unit studies, creating books, school units outlines
http://www.sdmart.org/education-plans.html 
- and scroll down and down (and click on links) – lesson plans, portraits,
http://www.sdmart.org/education-plans.html#book 
-  creating artistic books

PHOTOS for the visual learners at :
join the group too, at present 29 members - http://www.flickr.com/groups/lapbooking/ 
http://www.flickr.com/groups/lapbooking/pool/ 
- rows and rows of pics
With discussion pages too – http://www.flickr.com/groups/lapbooking/discuss/

Oh, such fun!
Johanna
Please leave a comment (at end of the post) and also your weblink at http://lapbooks.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/carnival/

http://lapbooks.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/carnival/

Unit Studies

can take less than a week or as long as you like.
We thought one month was a good time, but that seems to draw out to a term (10 weeks) with all the usual homeschooling “interruptions” like trips to Grandma’s, swimming lessons for a week, or …

Choose a topic – define it. Learn about mind mapping or concept webs.
Get your hands on some Graphic Organizers-Organisers (GO).
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html - click & print away!
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/ - need pdf reader
http://freeology.com/graphicorgs/index.php – scroll down to GOs that help to plan and layout ideas. 7 pages!

Do a plan.

Ask questions: what you Know?   Want to know?    Learnt from the study?
I think visually so the type of chart below suits me.
The titles can vary - add in more like : Technology; Physical Activity; Foreign Language …

Cover all elements or subjects, but not necessarily all in one Lapbook!
Some topics are more Science focussed, and others more Literary.

xx (wanted to put in planning sheet – but… another day)

Unit Study Links(right click and ‘open in new window’) http://houseofliterature.tripod.com/id7.html – overview Lapbook Lesson Plan Guide – no picshttp://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Leigharev – books – lesson planning – excellent