Alice in Wonderland Unit Ideas

Disney has a new Alice movie coming out in March. Although it looks a bit scary for the under 10 crowd, it is still a fun theme.  The imaginative characters, chaotic storyline, and random impossibilities make the Alice story universally loved by children and there vivid imaginations.There are many versions of the Alice story out there in publication and film-any of them would serve as a great jumping off point for a fun Wonderland Unit.

Unit Resources to be updated as new items are found.

E Text of book -Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

View The ORIGINAL Alice written and illustrated by Lewis Carroll-it is one of the links on the bottom

About the author Lewis Carroll

 Project and Unit Ideas:

• Amazing Wonderland Expedition Kit- I'm thinking PROJECT!
• The Many Faces of Alice 4th grade unit example- I love the script idea!! 
• A Study Guide for Alice  
• Alice in Wonderland Unit for 3rd Grade PDF

Lapbook resources:

• Alice @ Homeschool Share
• Sample lapbook

Math

• Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Math 
• Time (White Rabbits Watch)
• Lots of fun clock resources here  
• Worksheets and activities from Handwriting for Kids 
• Time worksheet generator
• Online analogue interactive clock
• Another online clock both digital and analogue
• Math Games with deck of cards 

Social Studies

• Geography-Mapping Skills: Create a Map of Wonderland-include the tree, the hole, and all the places named in the book, a map key and compass rose

Life Skills and Character Topics

• Time management
• dawdling

Poetry

• Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll - read aloud on YouTube
• Jabberwocky text

Thanksgiving Unit

My computer may have been down the last couple of weeks but I wasn't! We've been busy with a Thanksgiving Unit Study. I love Kendra's 30 Days of Thanks and Giving. I always love Homeschool Share and here are some great Thanksgiving Lapbook plans by the infamous homeschooling mom Jimmie. We have a membership to ABCTeach and I got lots of good printables there.
So there's lots of ideas- now just make it work for your family! We made a big sign saying "30 Days of Thanks & Giving" and hung it up in our dining room; we do our traditional thankful journals every morning (well, the kids do, my mother-in-law correctly pointed out that Mom and Dad should, too... maybe next year!); we love hand-print crafts here (so far corn, the Mayflower and of course turkeys); we're reading Dora's Thanksgiving a bazillion times each day... enjoy the season!

Lapbooking: Have you tried it?

Lapbooking has been all the rage in homeschooling circles the last few years. Have you tried it in your homeschool yet? If your kids are tired of filling in worksheet and notebook pages, lapbooking may be for you.

We don't use lapbooks for everything we learn but when we do use them to add some spice to our homeschool topics-The boys LOVE it! In fact the older two boys often get upset if I am making a lapbook with the younger boys and they don't get to make one too.

Lapbooks themselve are not the learning, they are more like a visual and hands-on catalog of what the child has learned about a specific subjects. We often use them along with literature units. For Example: We made Pig and Rat Lapbooks when we read Charlotte's Web. We read the book and included some trivia, character descriptions and plot details, along with learning more about the specific animal and including information about it in the lapbooks.

There are many free lapbooking resources. I hightly recommend doing a predesigned lapbook for your first time, so you can get the hang of it. After you have caught on to the brilliance of lapbooking, you can start designing your own and using the many mini booklet templates, your word processor program or a publishing program.


The following are my favorite lapbooking resources. There is no wrong or right way to make a lapbook, so be creative!

Lapbooking on Squidoo-best intro to lapbooking
http://www.squidoo.com/lapbooking

Homeschool Helper Online: Lapbook Section

Lapbooking Lessons 
http://lapbooklessons.ning.com/



Homeschool Share
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/
They have the best Minibook and template library-just click and print!