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Insect/Spider 5 Day Plan

Monday
Math - Ladybug
game
Reading
- bugs and insects, eric carle,

Science
- bug/spider anatomy

Crafts - ladybug
necklace
Misc. -
scavenger hunt

Tuesday
Math - Bug
walk/graph
Reading
- insects, insects work together, i know an old
lady
Science
- types of insects

Crafts - paper mache
insects
Misc. -
grasshopper jump

Wednesday
Math - Tarantula
game

Reading - spiders, spiders lunch, little miss
muffet
Science
- types of insects
Crafts - make spider web,
tarantula

Cooking - curds and whey

Misc. - relay race, little miss
muffet pages

Thursday
Math - busy
bugs

Reading - dangerous insects

Science - fruit fly

Crafts - wasp chamber

Cooking - buzzy bees & ants on a
log

Friday
Math -
map

Reading - insects, eric carle

Crafts - jumping grasshopper

Cooking - Bug cake

Misc. - 
Bingo

free stuff

This blog has lots of links to free curriculum supplements.

http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/nance53w/19382/#c29543

The Underground History of American Education - read it online

I've wanted to read this book for some time - I just found the entire thing available online.

The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto

From the prologue:
 
     If I demanded you give up your television to
an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was
crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman
even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so
docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a
schoolteacher?

    
I want to open up concealed aspects of modern schooling such as the
deterioration it forces in the morality of parenting. You have no say
at all in choosing your teachers. You know nothing about their
backgrounds or families. And the state knows little more than you do.
This is as radical a piece of social engineering as the human
imagination can conceive. What does it mean?

     One thing you do know is how unlikely it will
be for any teacher to understand the personality of your particular
child or anything significant about your family, culture, religion,
plans, hopes, dreams. In the confusion of school affairs even teachers
so disposed don’t have opportunity to know those things. How did this
happen?

Asia 5 Day Plan

Monday
- Panda

Crafts - Panda craft, color map of Asia
Math - file folder games,
math workbook

Science - cut out pictures of asian people, make paper,
look at the panda cam

Reading - Asia, Tiki-tiki-tembo, Ancient China, reading
lesson

Tuesday - Tigers
Crafts - tiger puppet,
color coloring page

Math - file folder games, math workbook
Science - wild
thing

Reading - Where the wild things are, wildlife, nepal,
tigers

Wednesday - Cobra
Crafts - paint coloring
page, make snake from tie, paint japan flag
Math - color patterns on
snake, math workbook
Reading - Japan, scary animals, reading
lesson
Cooking - Japanese lunch

Thursday
- Leopard

Crafts - make patterns from potato prints, color page,
fill in spots

Math - go on a pattern hunt, math
workbook
Reading - How many spots, China, reading
lesson

Friday - Yak
Crafts - color page, build
great wall of china

Math - math workbook
Reading
- reading lesson
Cooking - Canton Corn Soup

Beginners Art Curriculum

This is the coolest site!  I can't believe it's all free LOL.  This has 8 units, each with several lessons.

Beginners Art Curriculum

September Unit Studies

Africa Unit Study
Neighborhood Unit Study
Asia Unit Study
Insect/Spider Unit Study


Africa 5 Day Plan
Neighborhood 5 Day Plan
Asia 5 Day Plan

Insect/Spider 5 Day Plan