Yellowstone Lapboook

We have a trip to Yellowstone coming up soon so I wanted Claire to make a Yellowstone lapbook.  I couldn't find one anywhere so I just made my own.  I used the printable blank lapbook templates from homeschoolshare.com.  We had some of Claire's friends over and made an afternoon out of it.  I think the books turned out well.  I even made my very first power point presentation!  I think that worked very well....I had it on the TV and the kids could see everything really well and copy things really well.  And I didn't have to spell anything for anyone!!

Front:



First Folder:



 

Second Folder:

 

Back:

I found this Yellowstone word find online.

 

 

We took a break in between folders and made Indian Fry Bread from this recipe.

 

We talked about the different kind of rocks in Yellowstone.  I showed the kids examples of the three different kinds of rocks and erupted our own volcano when we were talking about igneous rocks.  I don't have a picture of that, but the kids really enjoyed it.  It was just the standard baking soda and vinegar volcano.  We also made our own geysers with Mentos and Diet Coke.  Three groups did the experiment, but this is the best picture I got of any of them.

 



 

Needless to say, the kids REALLY enjoyed this experiment!

 

It was a fun day and I can't wait to go to Yellowstone and see it in person!

It's been a while!

Boy, I sure have neglected my blog!!  I guess I just got busy with life.  I miss blogging though so I'm going to try to be a little better about updating.

We started school this week...not everything.  Claire still has gymnastics 3 mornings a week so we are only doing some subjects until her gym goes back to evening practices.  She's been doing great with her gymnastics.  She also got contacts for the first time this week so her gymnastics should improve!  She was having a hard time seeing the go ahead signal for vault at the meets.  I think contacts will help a lot.

The Beam is her favorite event....

Nathan is in the 11th grade this year.  I am not ready for this!!!  He's getting WAY too close to college...this mama bird is not ready for that just yet!  He's had a very active summer going to Pro-life Boot camp and a youth conference in Dallas.  He really enjoys all of the retreats.  I'm so glad we live in a area that offers so many to our young people. 

This is a picture of him at the DCYC conference this past weekend.  Think he's having fun??