To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ~Edmund Burke
Product Info and Ideas
To Get You Started...
We offer loads of books and resources for loads of study topics. Most books fall into four categories.
There are FOUR basic resource items we try to provide for
your unit studies. With these four items you can jump start
your study. You'd probably want to get some other
resources as well, but you COULD do a unit study with
these four items...These include:
- a Unit Study Guide...choose one of the topic guides to provide planning guidelines
- an Educational Coloring book....these provide not only pictures to color for notebooks, ideas for
writing assignments, and visual aids for your topic, but also an important teaching tool as
pictures are accompanied by text.
- a Read Aloud title....always choose a great piece of literature to use for reading aloud!
- a Nonfiction source of information...use these books to teach the facts about the topic.
As you look through our web site, you will notice at least these four different items for each unit study topic we offer. Other
items we carry might include: stickers, stencils, paperdolls, and miscellaneous fun resources to enhance your studies.
Supplemental Resources
All of our Study of...guides include a great resource list and while we'd like to
carry EVERYTHING we like...we just can't. But we do try to carry enough items to
get you started like:
A teacher's guide - The Study of...series. We also carry a nonfiction
book (which contains information to teach), a read aloud (to use during your read
aloud time) , an educational colorbook (to teach from and also to use pictures in
notebooks), and most studies we carry stickers, stencils and a few other items.
You would probably want to purchase a few more items and also pick up a few more
at the library...but you could DO a unit study with these few items!
Ideas for using stickers:
These are obviously great for your young students but they can also be used to decorate
the sides of lined paper (found in our Notebook Package) for writing assignments.
We also like to use them just to decorate pages like the notebook record sheet,
an assignment sheet, notebook covers etc. Try to provide these littel "extras" to
make student's notebooks a real fun and exciting work of art and creativity.
Ideas for using stencils:
Stencils are fun to use for covers and for helping jump start students artwork.
Once when we were studying Cowboys we used the hat stencil in the Wild West stencils
by drawing four on a page and then decorating them with different types of hat bands
like: leather, braided, snake skin, and so on. We learned about "hats" in the nonfiction
book - Bandanas Chaps and Ten Gallon Hats!
Sticker Pictures:
Sticker Pictures are like "colorforms" where figures peel and stick onto a background.
These are great for keeping little ones happy and quiet during your study time!
Educational Colorbooks:
I have had more people say, "Oh, my kids don't like to color." But when I explain
that these are not Boo Boo Bear type colorbooks but instead wonderful line drawings
all about a topic which include captions to teach from...it is a whole different
picture (pardon the pun!) One great ideas for coloring books is to use a picture
to spur a writing assignment. For example: you have a picture about pioneers doing
chores so you could describe Pioneer Chores and the picture could accompany the
writing assingment in the notebook. Boys in particular don't like to color much
so I tell my nine year old son he must color one throughout the study. This way
he can take it out each time I read aloud and work on his ONE picture!