New Year Mania

So our plan for this month is a slight deviation from our origional curriculum - one of the beauties of making my own curriculum is making any changes I want..so there! haha. This month I'm squeezing in a few different concepts as it's going to be a busy month..Since we're jumping all around this month we have a 'weekly theme' each week that we really focus on. They are as follows:

Week 1 (1/1-1/9)
Aside from our usual math & grammar we're focusing on Martin Luther King Jr (a little early, as we don't celebrate the day until the 18th, but hey)
Printable book (payed site)
Coloring Page 1
Interactive Civil Rites Game
Great Research links for older kids
Ideas for celebrating Dr. King's B=day
"I have a dream" lesson Plan
Black History coloring pages
'Story of the man' article for older students

Week 2 (1/10-1/16)
This week we're focused on winter, weather & animals. We have some great lapbooks & units downloaded from Currclick.com so it should be FUN!
Deer Lapbook
Clouds Minibook
"Polar Bears Past Bedtime" MTH Lapbook (this is one of mine so remember username: kickbutttidbits and password: kickbuttmama)
"The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" (I should have it posted by this weekend, almost finished)
Winter words Minibook (pay site)
Lesson Plan
Popsicle Science
Snow Melt Experiment
'What do salt trucks do?' lesson plan that goes nicely with the above experiment
Winter Day coloring Page

Week 3 (1/18-1/23)
This week we transition from history to geography. We're settling and getting ready for the winter olympics - which is near and dear to my family, as my DH's grandfather won gold in the winter olympics in the 1930's.
Canada Lapbook (from Currclick.com)
Canada Worksheets
Canada Crafts
Canada Coloring Pages
Canada For Kids
Canada History
Proud Canadian Kids
Virtual Tour of Prince Edward Island
Kidzone Geography / DLTK Kids Canada Printables
Enchanted Learning printable 4 Canada
Canada Maze Worksheets from Teachnology

Week 4 (1/26-1/30)
Olympics Unit (from Currclick.com)
Great Kids Olympic crafts
Olympics crafts
Sports coloring pages
Olympics inthe classroom (resources)
Teachnology Olympics themes
Going for the gold worksheet
Print activities
ABC Teach olympic theme

Martin Luther King, JR

I'm back to my busy weekends planning out our week of HS. I've already posted what we'll be learning in regards to the Inauguration, so here I thought I'd add the links for our Martin Luther King JR. Lapbooks (when we're done I'll upload the vid).

Both Lapbooks:

I made a pocket for our coloring pages on Word that has the pic of a mountain and the quote "I have been to the top of the mountain. I have seen the promise land!" Just to keep things a bit tidier.
Color By Numbers image of Dr. King found at www.schoolfamily.com
"I have a dream" collaborative banner found at Scholastic.com
My Teeny Tiny Book about MLKjr. found at www.bry-backmanor.org/mlk.html
"When I think about Peace..." writing prompt from www.abcteach.com
Word banks printed from www.teachersfirst.com
Coloring Pages from http://crafts.holidays.net and www.dldk-kids.com

For me: Resources:

Article from the seattle times - MLK wins Novel Peace Prize from 12/10/64
MLK Timeline at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com
Words to the song "We shall over come" from http://www.k-state.edu
Poem: "Standing Tall" by Jamioe McKenzie (about MLK) from http://www.fno.org
Robert F. Kenedy speaks about the death of MLK from http://www.historyplace.com
Article: Why we honor dr. martin luther king jr, from www.king-raleigh.org
Dove-Handprint Unity Wreath directions from www.dltk-teach.com
Poster of MLK from www.dltk-kids.com
Peace Circle ideas from www.abcteach.com
Civil Rights before & After chart from www.eduref.org
Timeline (we made our own for the lapbook but one was printed for reference from timeforkids.com)
I have a dream speech printed from www.teachersfirst.com
D.J.'s middle elementary lapbook also has:
Word Search from http://homeschooling.about.com
Civil RIghts before and after
MLK Matching worksheet from www.abcteach.com
Map of the US with places important to the Civil RIghts highlighted, map printed from www.nationalgeographic.com highlighted by DJ
Diversity writing prompt, MLK report form from www.abcteach.com
Acrostic Poem, Reading comprehension worksheet, vocab worksheet, adjectives worksheet printed from www.teach-nology.com
MLK Missing letters worksheet from www.schoolfamily.com

X-man's Lapbook also includes:

Letter K minibook from www.dltk-teach.com
abcteach also has a children around the world sheet that we used to practice writing the word "Peace"