History Pockets Plymouth Colony, Grades 1-3
Posted in Homeschooling Tips, Reviews on July 12th, 2009 by ethanlap | Permalink | Share/Save
This book is a great supplement to the study of Plymouth with young children. By the time were had completed ours, each child had a delightful “scrapbook/portfolio” of different aspects of Plymouth life.
The book explains how to set up your project “portfolio.” You can do all the projects or choose the ones you prefer (we liked them all). As we completed a project, we displayed it for awhile in our family room and then later it would go into the corresponding pocket. One thing I like about creating memory books or portfolios of subjects studied is that they’re fun to pull out later. This is instant review, hitting the highlights of what we had studied.
I found it key to run off all the copies needed ahead of time and get any unusual supplies ahead, as well (not much in addition to easy supplies such as construction paper, scissors, markers, and glue.) For me, having the whole thing ready to go makes all the difference in our really using it. We also found that there was too much coloring, so we just colored certain aspects of projects and left the rest white. It still all looked fabulous! On the other hand, if your kids love coloring, coloring while listening to a book read aloud can work beautifully.
Check it out at Amazon where you can “look inside.”