Unit 2 - Crabs, Clams, Seals, & Lobsters

Today I let Z draw a picture of a crab from the internet and then he wrote one sentence underneath. It was all his choosing. I skipped chapter 4 and read chapter 5 first, but he insisted we read both chapters about crabs so we had to go back and read chapter 4 for Day 1 of Unit 2.

It was also his suggestion to draw crabs on BOTH days. He likes to draw. So for chapters 4 and 5 he drew crabs and wrote a little about them. 

The blue crab was from internet site while the hermit crab was from Draw Write Now #6. When you don't listen to what mom says and you don't use the story paper , the picture and the copywork ends up on 2 separate pieces of paper.

This is the Unit 2 plan:
Day 1 - Blue crab (notebook)
Day 2 - Clams (narrate about the different types of clams)
Day 3 - Seals (6 matchbook mini-books in one big simplebook)(adapted from www.homeschoolshare.com).
He can draw the Harbor Seal on the cover.
Day 4 - Lobster (printout of minimized coloring page of lobster; label)
Day 5 -Super Science Concoctions - Hovering Veggies exp. (pg 74)

The following sites are extra resources for what we have used so far and planning to use for our notebook pages and mini-books.

Chapter 2- Least Sandpiper
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Least_Sandpiper/id
http://birdweb.org/birdweb/bird_details.aspx?id=169

Chap 4 - Blue Crab
http://www.aqua.org/animals_bluecrab.html

Chap 8 - Harbor Seal
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/marine-ed/mm/fieldguide/harbor-seal.html
http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=harborseal.main

Chap 9 - Lobster
http://www.lobsterinstitute.org/index.php?page=18
http://www.gma.org/lobsters/activities/anatomy.html
http://www.lobsterinstitute.org/index.php?page=20
http://www.ehow.com/info_7842127_kids-lobster-activities.html

I have a few picts to post of notebook pages and 1 mini-book, but I  will have to post later.