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.