We have tried many ways to present and keep our unit studies. When the girls were younger, everything went up on the wall, and they loved admiring their work, I think it was suitable for them at that age, as Ciara loves to see her work up on the walls now. Unfortunately though with that method, everything eventually gets thrown away, and we have nothing to go and look at once the children have finished a unit study(except for photos of course). We have tried lapbooking, but I feel it is too fiddly for me, and one has to always be so well prepared to create all the mini books. But it finally dawned on me just to keep it simple and save everything in files. The added bonus of this is if they come back to a subject later on to study it further, they can just keep adding to the file. We will have different files for History, Writing, Geography etc and these will not need to be thrown away from year to year, they can just keep adding and adding. It was a simple decision, but one that already works well and feels comfortable to us all.
We have been incorporating more map work into their studies, I have just felt now is the time to expand on this area of their education(more about this later).
A stained glass watercolour tulip. - Niamh.
Eden's.
A poem about tulips.
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